Swift County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Swift County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Swift County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Swift County holds about 0.2% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Swift County would save about 47 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,443 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Swift County	14.0 min	27.9 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,608	187
Minnesota	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,249	854
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Minnesota Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Brown County (10.6 min)
Pennington County (10.8 min)
Cottonwood County (10.9 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Chisago County (30.9 min)
Wright County (28.8 min)
Sherburne County (28.8 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Swift County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 14.0 minutes to get to work in Swift County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Minnesota

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Swift County

Public transit is unusually rare in Swift County: 5.1 times less than the Minnesota average (0.3% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Swift County: 4.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Swift County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Swift County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.0%	6.6%	6.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	82.8%	8.3%	7.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	81.6%	8.0%	8.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	80.8%	8.9%	8.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	80.6%	7.6%	8.8%	1.2%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	81.4%	7.0%	9.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.6%	6.7%	6.3%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	85.3%	6.5%	6.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	86.4%	5.5%	6.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.5%	6.0%	5.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.4%	6.3%	5.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.0%	7.2%	4.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.1%	6.3%	5.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.6%	6.5%	7.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.8%	7.3%	7.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.4%	7.5%	7.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 87.5% and lowest in 2013 at 80.6%. Overall it fell from 85.0% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Swift County: its share of workers rose from 6.6% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 9.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 7.4%.

Commute Start Times in Swift County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Swift County?

The bars show when commuters in Swift County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Minnesota for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.1%

Swift County Minnesota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Swift County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 57.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.0%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Swift County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Swift County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Swift County next to Minnesota and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Swift County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Swift County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Swift County now leave 12 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Swift County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Swift County's commute time compare?

Metric	Swift County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	14.0 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	7.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Swift County is 14.0 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 7.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Swift County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Swift County, MN is typical in size for this group, 9,748 residents against a local median of 9,740, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Swift County, MN apart most is work from home: 7.5%, 16% below the local median of 9.0%.

The counties themselves spread 5.9% on work from home, so Swift County, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Swift County, MN has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Swift County, MN	9,748	14.0 min #4/6	7.5% #6/6	7:26 AM #4/6
Chippewa County, MN	12,377	11.8 min	8.5%	7:20 AM
Pope County, MN	11,416	18.2 min	11.7%	7:22 AM
Stevens County, MN	9,740	11.3 min	7.6%	7:25 AM
Lac qui Parle County, MN	6,682	13.2 min	13.5%	7:32 AM
Yellow Medicine County, MN	9,450	17.8 min	9.0%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Swift County, Minnesota.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Swift County, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 116 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,608 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Swift County, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Swift County, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Swift County, Minnesota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.8% in Minnesota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Minnesota have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Minnesota, the shortest average commutes are in Brown County (10.6 min), Pennington County (10.8 min), Cottonwood County (10.9 min). The longest are in Chisago County (30.9 min), Wright County (28.8 min), Sherburne County (28.8 min).