Winona Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Winona, Minnesota: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Winona: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Winona spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 89 hours, about 3.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 47% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 9.6 minutes.

Winona holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Winona would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,106 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)
Winona	10.7 min	21.4 min	89 hrs/yr	$2,765	1,295
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.

Winona Commute Map

On average, it takes 10.7 minutes to get to work in Winona. That's 52% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Winona

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Winona, versus 0.2% in Minnesota.

Biking is unusually common in Winona: 3.3 times more than the Minnesota average (1.6% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Winona, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Winona 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	78.1%	6.3%	11.9%	1.8%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	77.4%	6.4%	11.5%	2.7%	0.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	77.1%	5.9%	11.9%	2.6%	0.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	79.0%	4.2%	10.2%	3.5%	0.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.5%
2013	79.5%	4.2%	9.8%	3.2%	1.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.6%
2014	79.5%	3.6%	10.7%	2.4%	0.8%	2.1%	0.1%	0.7%
2015	82.0%	2.9%	9.7%	1.7%	0.8%	2.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2016	83.2%	2.4%	9.3%	1.5%	0.4%	2.8%	0.1%	0.4%
2017	83.0%	3.0%	9.5%	1.5%	0.2%	2.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	83.2%	3.3%	9.4%	1.6%	0.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	83.6%	3.9%	8.9%	1.4%	0.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	80.4%	6.9%	8.7%	1.5%	0.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.7%	7.1%	9.0%	1.7%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.7%	6.7%	9.5%	1.4%	1.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	78.4%	9.0%	9.0%	1.3%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.4%	8.9%	7.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.8%	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 2019 at 83.6% and lowest in 2011 at 77.1%. Overall it rose from 78.1% in 2009 to 80.4% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Winona: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.9% to 7.2% of workers (down 4.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Winona

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Winona?

The bars show when commuters in Winona 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		3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		13.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Winona is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 44.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.9%) 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 Winona, 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 Winona 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 Winona 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	Winona	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:58 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:59 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:53 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Winona were on the road by 7:38 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:52 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Winona now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Winona has moved 16 minutes earlier.

How does Winona's commute time compare?

Metric	Winona	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.7 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.9%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	7.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Winona is 10.7 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 7.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Winona, Minnesota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Winona, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 89 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,765 at a typical national wage. That's 47% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Winona, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Winona, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.