Batavia Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Batavia, Illinois: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

Updated 22 September 2026

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Commute Time Burden in Batavia: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Batavia spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Batavia holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Batavia would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,452 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)
Batavia	23.7 min	47.5 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,130	3,300
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.

Batavia Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Batavia. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Batavia

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Batavia: 5.4 times more than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Batavia: 4.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Batavia, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Batavia 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.2%	6.2%	3.0%	0.9%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	5.8%	3.0%	0.8%	2.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	86.6%	6.8%	2.9%	0.9%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	86.0%	6.8%	3.3%	1.1%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.3%	6.9%	3.4%	1.1%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.3%	6.8%	3.7%	1.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.0%	7.1%	4.5%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.1%	6.7%	4.3%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.7%	7.5%	3.9%	1.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	8.4%	3.7%	0.9%	1.1%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	85.2%	8.9%	3.3%	0.4%	1.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	82.3%	12.9%	2.4%	0.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	79.3%	16.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	76.7%	18.8%	1.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	76.3%	18.6%	2.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	73.2%	21.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 87.5%. Overall it fell from 87.2% in 2009 to 73.2% in 2024, down 14.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Batavia: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 21.5% in 2024, up 15.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 2.4% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Batavia

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Batavia?

The bars show when commuters in Batavia 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Batavia is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Batavia, 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 Batavia 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 Batavia 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	Batavia	Illinois	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Batavia were on the road by 7:28 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Batavia now leave 10 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 Batavia has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Batavia in the whole series.

How does Batavia's commute time compare?

Metric	Batavia	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.4%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Batavia is about the same as in Illinois.

2.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Batavia, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Batavia, IL is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 22,110 residents against a local median of 31,856. The measure that sets Batavia, IL apart most is work from home: 21.5%, 44% above the local median of 15.0%.

The cities themselves sit within 5.3% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Batavia, IL, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Batavia, IL has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Batavia, IL	22,110	23.7 min #4/4	21.5% #1/4	7:28 AM #2/4
St. Charles, IL	31,856	21.8 min	15.0%	7:33 AM
Aurora, IL	168,587	23.2 min	15.3%	7:35 AM
West Chicago, IL	21,065	21.6 min	10.0%	7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Batavia, Illinois.

Is commuting expensive in Batavia, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,130 at a typical national wage.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Batavia, Illinois?

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

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

About 21.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Batavia would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,452 at the same national wage assumption used above.