Minot Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Minot, 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 Minot: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Minot spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 113 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Minot holds about 4.9% of North Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 4.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Minot would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,400 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)
Minot	13.6 min	27.1 min	113 hrs/yr	$3,501	1,692
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.

Minot Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.6 minutes to get to work in Minot. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Minot

Commute Mode Trends in Minot, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Minot 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	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	94.1%	2.6%	1.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%
2010	93.2%	3.0%	2.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	93.4%	2.8%	2.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	93.3%	2.9%	2.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2013	92.6%	3.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	92.4%	3.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	93.8%	2.7%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	93.9%	2.8%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	3.0%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	93.9%	3.2%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2019	93.8%	2.8%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2020	91.7%	4.4%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	91.8%	5.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2022	92.0%	4.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	5.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	89.9%	5.7%	1.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 89.9% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Minot: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Minot

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Minot?

The bars show when commuters in Minot 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		21.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Minot is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 20.9% across North Dakota. Early starts are more common than in North Dakota: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Dakota: 55.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% 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 Minot, 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 Minot 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 Minot 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	Minot	North Dakota	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Minot were on the road by 7:36 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Dakota, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Minot now leave 2 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 Minot has moved 12 minutes earlier.

How does Minot's commute time compare?

Metric	Minot	North Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 min	13.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.7%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Minot is about the same as in North Dakota.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Minot, North Dakota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Minot, North Dakota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 113 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,501 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical North Dakota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Minot, North Dakota?

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