Linn County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Linn County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Linn County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Linn County holds about 3.1% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 3.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Linn County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,281 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)
Linn County	22.1 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,702	711
Oregon	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,203	967
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: Oregon Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Oregon

Lake County (7.7 min)
Harney County (8.6 min)
Baker County (8.9 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Oregon

Columbia County (31.7 min)
Clackamas County (23.9 min)
Polk County (22.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Linn County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Linn County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Oregon

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Linn County

Public transit is unusually rare in Linn County: 11.9 times less than the Oregon average (0.2% vs 2.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Linn County: 3.9 times less than the Oregon average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Linn County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Linn 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	88.1%	6.8%	2.7%	0.7%	0.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	87.3%	7.3%	2.8%	0.6%	0.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	87.7%	7.1%	2.5%	0.8%	0.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	88.3%	6.5%	2.5%	0.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	89.0%	6.2%	2.3%	0.7%	0.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.6%	6.1%	2.3%	0.9%	0.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	89.0%	5.8%	2.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	89.4%	5.2%	2.6%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	89.3%	5.4%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	89.6%	5.3%	2.3%	0.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	90.5%	5.0%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.9%	6.2%	1.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.5%	7.5%	2.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	86.8%	8.9%	2.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	10.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	85.0%	11.1%	1.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Linn County: its share of workers rose from 6.8% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Linn County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Linn County?

The bars show when commuters in Linn 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 Oregon for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

Linn County Oregon Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Linn County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are more common than in Oregon: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Oregon's: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Linn 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 Linn 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 Linn County next to Oregon 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	Linn County	Oregon	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Linn County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Linn County now leave 22 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 Linn County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Linn County in the whole series.

How does Linn County's commute time compare?

Metric	Linn County	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 min	20.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.1%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Linn County is 22.1 minutes, longer than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Linn County, OR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Linn County, OR is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 130,588 residents against a local median of 349,246. Where Linn County, OR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 36% below the local median of 17.5% at 11.1%.

The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Linn County, OR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Linn County, OR has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Linn County, OR	130,588	22.1 min #4/6	11.1% #6/6	7:16 AM #1/6
Marion County, OR	349,246	20.3 min	12.7%	7:26 AM
Lane County, OR	383,903	17.3 min	15.5%	7:52 AM
Clackamas County, OR	423,491	23.9 min	20.9%	7:32 AM
Benton County, OR	96,284	15.8 min	20.3%	8:07 AM
Polk County, OR	89,625	22.2 min	17.5%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Linn County, Oregon.

Is commuting expensive in Linn County, Oregon?

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,702 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Linn County, Oregon?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Linn County, Oregon. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Linn County, Oregon?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Oregon, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Oregon have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Oregon, the shortest average commutes are in Lake County (7.7 min), Harney County (8.6 min), Baker County (8.9 min). The longest are in Columbia County (31.7 min), Clackamas County (23.9 min), Polk County (22.2 min).