Winona County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Winona County, 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 County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Winona County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Winona County holds about 0.9% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Winona County would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,369 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 County	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	785
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

Winona County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.2 minutes to get to work in Winona County. That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 83% 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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Winona County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Winona County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Winona 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	81.4%	6.6%	8.7%	1.2%	0.4%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	81.5%	6.8%	8.1%	1.5%	0.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	81.5%	7.0%	7.9%	1.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	83.1%	5.9%	6.7%	1.8%	0.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	83.8%	5.6%	6.3%	1.7%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	83.8%	5.0%	7.0%	1.3%	0.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	84.9%	4.6%	6.6%	1.0%	0.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	85.8%	4.1%	6.3%	0.8%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	85.7%	4.4%	6.5%	0.8%	0.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	85.6%	4.6%	6.4%	0.9%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	86.2%	4.8%	5.9%	0.8%	0.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.3%	6.7%	5.6%	0.9%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.0%	7.6%	6.0%	1.1%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.2%	8.2%	6.3%	0.9%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.7%	9.5%	6.0%	0.8%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.0%	10.0%	5.3%	1.0%	1.0%	0.7%	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 2019 at 86.2%. Overall it rose from 81.4% in 2009 to 82.0% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Winona County: its share of workers rose from 6.6% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.7% to 5.3% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Winona County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Winona County?

The bars show when commuters in Winona 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Winona County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.2%) 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 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 Winona 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 Winona 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	Winona County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Winona County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Winona County now leave 13 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 Winona County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Winona County's commute time compare?

Metric	Winona County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.2 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	10.0%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	5.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Winona County is 13.2 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 5.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Winona County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Winona County, MN is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 49,782 residents against a local median of 21,414. The measure that sets Winona County, MN apart most is one-way commute: 13.2 min, 41% below the local median of 22.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves sit within 4.6 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Winona County, MN, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Winona County, MN has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Winona County, MN	49,782	13.2 min #1/6	10.0% #6/6	7:24 AM #6/6
Buffalo County, WI	13,393	22.6 min	10.0%	7:08 AM
Houston County, MN	18,653	20.6 min	13.6%	7:12 AM
Fillmore County, MN	21,414	25.1 min	12.4%	7:17 AM
Trempealeau County, WI	28,321	21.9 min	10.2%	7:07 AM
Wabasha County, MN	21,565	22.8 min	11.4%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Winona County, Minnesota.

Is living in Winona County, Minnesota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 110 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,422 at a typical national wage. That's 35% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Winona County, Minnesota?

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

How do commute times compare across counties in Minnesota?

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).