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Commuting in Dunn County, North Dakota: 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 Dunn County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dunn County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 58% more time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.0 minutes.

Dunn County holds about 0.5% of North Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dunn County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,251 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)
Dunn County 21.8 min 43.6 min 182 hrs/yr $5,627 649
North Dakota 13.8 min 27.6 min 115 hrs/yr $3,567 360
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: North Dakota Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in North Dakota
  1. McIntosh County (6.9 min)
  2. Foster County (7.7 min)
  3. Pierce County (7.7 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in North Dakota
  1. McHenry County (28.9 min)
  2. Renville County (23.5 min)
  3. Oliver County (22.8 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Dunn County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Dunn County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in North Dakota

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 17.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dunn County

  • Car: 76.2%
  • Worked at Home: 17.0%
  • Walked: 4.0%
  • Other: 1.9%
  • Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Dunn County, versus 0.2% in North Dakota.

Public transit is unusually rare in Dunn County: 3.2 times less than the North Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Dunn County, versus 0.1% in North Dakota.

Biking is unusually common in Dunn County: 3.2 times more than the North Dakota average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Dunn County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dunn 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 74.1% 20.3% 5.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 73.0% 19.6% 6.5% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 73.9% 18.0% 6.2% 1.1% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 74.4% 17.7% 5.9% 1.5% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 75.2% 14.4% 7.2% 1.9% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 74.7% 13.6% 8.5% 2.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 79.0% 13.5% 4.8% 1.5% 0.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 79.5% 13.0% 5.0% 1.2% 0.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 79.9% 11.1% 5.9% 1.3% 1.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 80.9% 10.3% 7.4% 0.9% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 83.8% 10.1% 5.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 82.2% 11.9% 4.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 82.2% 12.0% 5.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 79.4% 13.4% 6.1% 0.4% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 78.8% 14.4% 3.9% 1.9% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 76.2% 17.0% 4.0% 1.9% 0.9% 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 was highest in 2019 at 83.8% and lowest in 2010 at 73.0%. Overall it rose from 74.1% in 2009 to 76.2% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Dunn County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 20.3% to 17.0% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 8.5% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.

Commute Start Times in Dunn County

  • Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among North Dakota's 53 counties: 25.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
  • Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among North Dakota's 53 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:05 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dunn County?

The bars show when commuters in Dunn 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 North Dakota for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
4.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

Dunn County North Dakota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Dunn County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across North Dakota. Early starts are more common than in North Dakota: 25.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Dakota: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Dunn 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 Dunn 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 Dunn County next to North Dakota 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 Dunn County North Dakota United States
2009 7:17 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:19 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:20 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:20 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:18 AM 7:40 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:05 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:06 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:08 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:06 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:58 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:07 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:07 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:03 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:00 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:06 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dunn County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Dakota, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Dunn County now leave 32 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 Dunn County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Dunn County's commute time compare?

Metric Dunn County North Dakota US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.8 min 13.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 17.0% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 4.0% 3.2% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Dunn County is 21.8 minutes, longer than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dunn County, ND Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Dunn County, ND is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,040 residents against a local median of 9,507. The measure that sets Dunn County, ND apart most is work from home: 17.0%, 141% above the local median of 7.1%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 21.8 min against a local median of 15.3 min, 43% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 43% above the local median it puts Dunn County, ND at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves sit within 4.2% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Dunn County, ND, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Dunn County, ND has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Dunn County, ND 4,040 21.8 min #6/6 17.0% #1/6 7:05 AM #1/6
Stark County, ND 33,302 12.7 min 7.1% 7:20 AM
Mercer County, ND 8,337 15.3 min 5.2% 7:25 AM
Billings County, ND 1,023 21.2 min 7.6% 7:11 AM
McKenzie County, ND 14,321 16.9 min 8.8% 7:14 AM
Mountrail County, ND 9,507 15.2 min 4.6% 7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dunn County, North Dakota.

Is living in Dunn County, North Dakota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,627 at a typical national wage. That's 58% more than the typical North Dakota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Dunn County, North Dakota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Dunn County, North Dakota. 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Dunn County, North Dakota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in North Dakota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much time do residents in Dunn County, North Dakota save by working from home?

About 17.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Dunn County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,251 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in North Dakota?

Among counties in North Dakota, the shortest average commutes are in McIntosh County (6.9 min), Foster County (7.7 min), Pierce County (7.7 min). The longest are in McHenry County (28.9 min), Renville County (23.5 min), Oliver County (22.8 min).