Wabasha County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wabasha County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wabasha County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Wabasha County holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wabasha County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,353 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)
Wabasha County	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,884	850
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.

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On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Wabasha County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Minnesota

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wabasha County

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 11.4%
• Walked: 4.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Wabasha County: 64.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Wabasha County: 3.2 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wabasha County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wabasha 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
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• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	82.7%	7.1%	5.6%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	1.8%	0.2%
2010	83.0%	7.3%	4.8%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	2.9%	0.1%
2011	82.8%	7.8%	5.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%
2012	84.6%	8.2%	3.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%
2013	84.5%	7.6%	3.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%
2014	86.2%	5.9%	4.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%
2015	86.3%	5.7%	4.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%
2016	87.4%	5.2%	4.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%
2017	86.8%	5.4%	5.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%
2018	85.8%	6.3%	4.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	0.1%
2019	86.3%	6.1%	4.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	2.1%	0.1%
2020	86.4%	7.8%	3.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	1.7%	0.1%
2021	84.1%	9.2%	4.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	1.6%	0.1%
2022	84.6%	9.2%	3.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%
2023	83.9%	10.5%	3.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	82.9%	11.4%	4.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 87.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 82.7% in 2009 and 82.9% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wabasha County: its share of workers rose from 7.1% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Wabasha County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wabasha County?

The bars show when commuters in Wabasha 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	12:00-4:59 AM Wabasha County7.7% Minnesota5.0%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wabasha County4.4% Minnesota3.8%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wabasha County8.5% Minnesota5.2%	8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wabasha County11.1% Minnesota8.4%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wabasha County10.6% Minnesota10.2%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wabasha County17.1% Minnesota14.8%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wabasha County12.1% Minnesota13.8%	12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wabasha County7.6% Minnesota10.4%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wabasha County2.4% Minnesota4.7%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wabasha County3.1% Minnesota5.8%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wabasha County2.8% Minnesota2.7%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wabasha County1.2% Minnesota1.3%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wabasha County6.6% Minnesota8.2%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wabasha County4.9% Minnesota5.8%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wabasha County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 20.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Minnesota's: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Wabasha 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 Wabasha 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 Wabasha 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.

• Wabasha County
• Minnesota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wabasha County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wabasha County were on the road by 7:14 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Wabasha County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wabasha County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wabasha County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.4%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wabasha County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau