Traill County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Traill County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Traill County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 117 hours, about 4.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Traill County holds about 1.0% of North Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Traill County would save about 47 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,446 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)
Traill County	14.0 min	28.0 min	117 hrs/yr	$3,616	216
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 14.0 minutes to get to work in Traill County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in North Dakota

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 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Traill County

• Car: 89.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.5%
• Walked: 4.3%
• Other: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Traill County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Traill 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	86.8%	5.9%	6.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	86.4%	6.3%	6.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	87.6%	5.6%	6.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	86.4%	5.8%	6.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	86.0%	5.7%	7.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	86.9%	5.7%	6.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	87.2%	5.1%	6.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	87.1%	5.4%	5.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	5.3%	4.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.9%	5.4%	4.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	89.3%	4.7%	5.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.4%	4.7%	4.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	4.9%	3.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	90.2%	4.7%	4.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	5.5%	4.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	5.5%	4.3%	0.3%	0.2%	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 90.5% and lowest in 2013 at 86.0%. Overall it rose from 86.8% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 4.3% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Traill County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Traill County?

The bars show when commuters in Traill 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 Traill County4.1% North Dakota3.6%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Traill County2.7% North Dakota2.7%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Traill County5.9% North Dakota4.4%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Traill County8.0% North Dakota6.7%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Traill County13.7% North Dakota11.2%	13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Traill County15.2% North Dakota14.8%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Traill County23.9% North Dakota20.9%	23.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Traill County13.6% North Dakota11.0%	13.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Traill County1.6% North Dakota4.7%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Traill County2.0% North Dakota4.5%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Traill County1.6% North Dakota2.3%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Traill County0.5% North Dakota1.0%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Traill County2.9% North Dakota6.4%	2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Traill County4.3% North Dakota5.9%	4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Traill County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 20.9% across North Dakota. Early starts are more common than in North Dakota: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Dakota: 66.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.3%) 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 Traill 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 Traill 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 Traill 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.

• Traill County
• North Dakota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Traill County	North Dakota	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 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	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Traill County were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across North Dakota, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Traill 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 Traill County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Traill County's commute time compare?

Metric	Traill County	North Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	14.0 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	5.5%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau