Algonquin Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Algonquin: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Algonquin spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Algonquin holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Algonquin would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,122 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)
Algonquin	30.2 min	60.4 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,806	4,019
Illinois	23.6 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,104	1,547
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.

Algonquin Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Algonquin. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 21.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Algonquin

Walking is unusually rare in Algonquin: 4.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.7% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Algonquin: 4.7 times less than the Illinois average (1.2% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Algonquin: 15.4 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Biking is essentially absent in Algonquin, versus 0.5% in Illinois.

Few people walk or bike to work in Algonquin: just 0.7%, 4.8 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Algonquin, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Algonquin 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.9%	5.0%	2.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.2%	5.8%	2.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	89.6%	5.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	89.0%	5.8%	3.2%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	89.0%	6.7%	2.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	88.2%	6.8%	3.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	88.0%	6.7%	3.8%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	89.4%	6.3%	3.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.1%	6.9%	3.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	89.2%	6.9%	2.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	7.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.5%	9.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.9%	13.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.7%	15.8%	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	78.6%	18.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.3%	21.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.9% in 2009 to 75.3% in 2024, down 15.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Algonquin: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 21.9% in 2024, up 16.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Algonquin

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Algonquin?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

Algonquin Illinois Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Algonquin is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 17.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Algonquin, 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 Algonquin 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 Algonquin next to Illinois 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	Algonquin	Illinois	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Algonquin were on the road by 7:18 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Algonquin now leave 20 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 Algonquin has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Algonquin in the whole series.

How does Algonquin's commute time compare?

Metric	Algonquin	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 min	23.6 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	21.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Algonquin is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Algonquin, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Algonquin, IL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Algonquin, IL	28,443	30.2 min #2/3	21.9% #1/3	7:17 AM #1/3
Lake in the Hills, IL	25,084	30.4 min	17.5%	7:27 AM
Carpentersville, IL	23,807	27.1 min	10.3%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Algonquin, Illinois.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Algonquin, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,806 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Algonquin, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Algonquin, Illinois. 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Algonquin, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.2% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Algonquin, Illinois a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 21.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Algonquin would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,122 at the same national wage assumption used above.