Commuting in Richland 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 Richland County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Richland 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 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.
Richland County holds about 2.1% of North Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 1.9% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Richland County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,316 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)
Richland County
12.7 min
25.5 min
106 hrs/yr
$3,290
269
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.
On average, it takes
12.7
minutes to get to work in
Richland County.
That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Richland County
Car:
83.8%
Worked at Home:
8.2%
Walked:
6.5%
Other:
0.8%
Bicycle:
0.4%
Public Transportation:
0.3%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Richland County: 15112789686.8 times less than the North Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Richland County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Richland 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
86.4%
7.0%
5.1%
0.8%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.4%
2010
87.0%
7.3%
4.5%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2011
87.0%
7.0%
4.8%
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2012
88.1%
6.6%
4.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2013
89.2%
4.9%
4.9%
0.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
2014
88.1%
5.9%
5.0%
0.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2015
87.7%
5.9%
5.2%
0.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.2%
0.1%
2016
87.5%
6.0%
5.0%
0.4%
0.6%
0.0%
0.4%
0.1%
2017
88.5%
5.6%
4.2%
0.5%
0.6%
0.0%
0.5%
0.1%
2018
89.9%
5.9%
3.1%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
89.7%
5.7%
3.4%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.3%
0.1%
2020
89.9%
5.9%
2.6%
0.6%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2021
89.6%
5.3%
3.6%
0.4%
0.4%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2022
86.2%
6.5%
5.2%
1.3%
0.3%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
84.4%
8.1%
5.3%
1.2%
0.5%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
83.8%
8.2%
6.5%
0.8%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 86.4% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Walking gained the most ground in Richland County: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Richland County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richland County?
The bars show when commuters in Richland 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
12:00-4:59 AMRichland County3.6%North Dakota3.6%
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMRichland County2.3%North Dakota2.7%
2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMRichland County6.2%North Dakota4.4%
6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMRichland County9.9%North Dakota6.7%
9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMRichland County14.7%North Dakota11.2%
14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMRichland County13.1%North Dakota14.8%
13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMRichland County13.5%North Dakota20.9%
13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMRichland County9.3%North Dakota11.0%
9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMRichland County3.4%North Dakota4.7%
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMRichland County4.4%North Dakota4.5%
4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMRichland County1.3%North Dakota2.3%
1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMRichland County1.1%North Dakota1.0%
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMRichland County7.1%North Dakota6.4%
7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMRichland County10.0%North Dakota5.9%
10.0%
Richland CountyNorth DakotaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Richland County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across North Dakota. Early starts are more common than in North Dakota: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Dakota: 50.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Richland 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 Richland 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 Richland 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
Richland County
North Dakota
United States
2009
7:33 AM
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:33 AM
7:42 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:32 AM
7:41 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:30 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:30 AM
7:40 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:33 AM
7:39 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:33 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:31 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:28 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:30 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Richland County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). North Dakota followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Richland County now leave 7 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 Richland County has moved 2 minutes later.
How does Richland County's commute time compare?
Metric
Richland County
North Dakota
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
12.7 min
13.8 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
06:30 AM – 06:59 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
8.2%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
6.5%
3.2%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.3%
0.3%
3.2%
The average commute time in Richland County is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.
The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as North Dakota. 6.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.
Richland County, ND Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Richland County, ND is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,584 residents against a local median of 6,371. Richland 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, 9% below the local median at 8.2% against 9.0%. Richland County, ND has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Richland County, North Dakota.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Richland County, North Dakota?
Commuters here spend an estimated 106 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,290 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical North Dakota commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Richland County, North Dakota?
Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Richland 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.
How do commute times compare across 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).