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Commute Time Burden in Griggs County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Griggs County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Griggs County holds about 0.3% of North Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Griggs County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,290 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)
Griggs County 12.5 min 25.0 min 104 hrs/yr $3,224 126
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

Griggs County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.5 minutes to get to work in Griggs County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Griggs County

  • Car: 83.3%
  • Walked: 8.0%
  • Worked at Home: 6.9%
  • Other: 0.9%
  • Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Griggs County, versus 0.3% in North Dakota.

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

Biking is unusually common in Griggs County: 3.5 times more than the North Dakota average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Griggs County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Griggs 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 Walked Worked at Home Bicycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 84.8% 4.7% 7.9% 1.7% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 82.2% 6.1% 9.2% 1.3% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 81.6% 5.4% 10.6% 1.3% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 84.7% 4.0% 9.7% 0.8% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 83.9% 5.3% 9.1% 0.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 84.3% 5.0% 9.8% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 83.3% 5.5% 10.3% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 85.0% 6.7% 7.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 84.6% 6.8% 8.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 84.6% 5.4% 9.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 83.2% 4.1% 12.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 82.3% 7.6% 9.2% 0.0% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 82.2% 7.3% 9.9% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 82.1% 7.1% 9.4% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 79.7% 8.1% 10.4% 0.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 83.3% 8.0% 6.9% 0.9% 0.9% 0.0% 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 2016 at 85.0% and lowest in 2023 at 79.7%. Overall it fell from 84.8% in 2009 to 83.3% in 2024, down 1.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Griggs County: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.9% to 6.9% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Griggs County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Griggs County?

The bars show when commuters in Griggs 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
4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
4.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
18.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Griggs County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.0% across North Dakota. Early starts are about as common as in North Dakota: 10.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Dakota: 65.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.1%) 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 Griggs 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 Griggs 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 Griggs 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 Griggs County North Dakota United States
2009 7:42 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:39 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:41 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:40 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:40 AM 7:40 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:42 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:46 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:43 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:34 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:32 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:35 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:39 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:40 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Griggs County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). North Dakota followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Griggs County now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Griggs County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Griggs County's commute time compare?

Metric Griggs County North Dakota US Average
Avg. Commute Time 12.5 min 13.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 6.9% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 8.0% 3.2% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Griggs County is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 8.0% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Griggs County, ND Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Griggs County, ND is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,245 residents against a local median of 3,016. Griggs County, ND sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 11% below the local median at 6.9% against 7.7%. Griggs County, ND has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Griggs County, ND 2,245 12.5 min #5/6 6.9% #5/6 7:40 AM #6/6
Nelson County, ND 3,016 12.0 min 8.1% 7:34 AM
Steele County, ND 1,804 13.2 min 12.3% 7:26 AM
Barnes County, ND 10,773 12.4 min 6.9% 7:39 AM
Foster County, ND 3,358 7.7 min 7.7% 7:37 AM
Eddy County, ND 2,307 12.2 min 5.5% 7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Griggs County, North Dakota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 104 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,224 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical North Dakota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Griggs 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 Griggs County, North Dakota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in North Dakota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).