McMinnville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in McMinnville, Oregon: 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 McMinnville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McMinnville 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 33% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

McMinnville holds about 0.6% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in McMinnville 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)
McMinnville	13.4 min	26.9 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,471	1,322
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.

McMinnville Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in McMinnville. 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 13.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in McMinnville

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in McMinnville: 652946.4 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in McMinnville: 5.9 times less than the Oregon average (0.4% vs 2.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in McMinnville, versus 0.1% in Oregon.

Commute Mode Trends in McMinnville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in McMinnville 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	87.4%	2.4%	6.8%	0.4%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	86.8%	2.8%	6.6%	0.4%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	85.1%	3.2%	8.3%	0.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	82.0%	4.1%	9.5%	0.7%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	82.6%	4.1%	9.6%	0.6%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	83.8%	3.2%	9.8%	0.5%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	83.2%	3.4%	10.4%	0.5%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	84.2%	3.3%	8.8%	0.9%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	86.6%	2.8%	7.3%	0.5%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	85.4%	3.0%	8.0%	0.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	81.6%	4.4%	9.6%	1.0%	2.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	81.2%	6.1%	8.7%	1.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	78.1%	9.0%	8.4%	1.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	76.2%	10.6%	9.1%	1.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	77.1%	11.7%	8.2%	1.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	76.7%	13.2%	6.7%	1.6%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2022 at 76.2%. Overall it fell from 87.4% in 2009 to 76.7% in 2024, down 10.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in McMinnville: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 13.2% in 2024, up 10.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 10.4% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 6.7%.

Commute Start Times in McMinnville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in McMinnville?

The bars show when commuters in McMinnville 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in McMinnville is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are about as common as in Oregon: 15.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oregon: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) 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 McMinnville, 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 McMinnville 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 McMinnville 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	McMinnville	Oregon	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in McMinnville were on the road by 7:37 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in McMinnville now leave 1 minute 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 McMinnville has moved 9 minutes later.

How does McMinnville's commute time compare?

Metric	McMinnville	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.4 min	20.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.2%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	6.7%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in McMinnville is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 6.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in McMinnville, Oregon.

What is the financial impact of commuting in McMinnville, Oregon?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,471 at a typical national wage. That's 33% less than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in McMinnville, Oregon?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in McMinnville, Oregon. 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.

Do people use public transit in McMinnville, Oregon?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.4% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Oregon, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.