Rolette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rolette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rolette County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Rolette County holds about 1.5% of North Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rolette County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,389 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)
Rolette County	13.4 min	26.9 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,474	234
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.

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On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in Rolette County. 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 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rolette County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.7%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Rolette County: 7.3 times less than the North Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Rolette County: 4.2 times more than the North Dakota average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rolette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rolette 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	89.6%	7.3%	2.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.1%	7.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.2%	8.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.2%	8.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	90.5%	7.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.8%	6.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	89.6%	7.6%	2.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	7.0%	2.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	7.3%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.8%	6.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	92.6%	4.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	3.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.6%	2.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	94.2%	2.8%	2.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.3%	4.0%	2.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	4.7%	2.3%	1.1%	0.4%	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 2021 at 94.6% and lowest in 2011 at 89.2%. Overall it rose from 89.6% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Rolette County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 1.1% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.3% to 4.7% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Rolette County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rolette County?

The bars show when commuters in Rolette 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 AM Rolette County1.1% North Dakota3.6%	1.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Rolette County2.1% North Dakota2.7%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Rolette County4.2% North Dakota4.4%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Rolette County3.4% North Dakota6.7%	3.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Rolette County10.2% North Dakota11.2%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Rolette County13.8% North Dakota14.8%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Rolette County38.1% North Dakota20.9%	38.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Rolette County10.7% North Dakota11.0%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Rolette County2.4% North Dakota4.7%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Rolette County2.5% North Dakota4.5%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Rolette County1.0% North Dakota2.3%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Rolette County0.6% North Dakota1.0%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Rolette County5.7% North Dakota6.4%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Rolette County4.3% North Dakota5.9%	4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rolette County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 38.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 20.9% across North Dakota. Early starts are less common than in North Dakota: 7.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Dakota: 72.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.0%) 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 Rolette 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 Rolette 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 Rolette 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Rolette County	North Dakota	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rolette County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across North Dakota, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Rolette County now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Rolette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rolette County	North Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.4 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	4.7%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rolette County is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau