Belleville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Belleville, Illinois: 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 Belleville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Belleville spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Belleville holds about 0.3% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Belleville would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,110 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)
Belleville	20.4 min	40.8 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,275	2,154
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.

Belleville Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.4 minutes to get to work in Belleville. That's 9% 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 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Belleville

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Belleville, versus 0.1% in Illinois.

Commute Mode Trends in Belleville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Belleville 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	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.3%	2.6%	5.2%	1.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	89.8%	2.7%	4.9%	1.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.6%	2.6%	4.1%	1.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	90.3%	2.3%	4.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	89.6%	2.3%	4.8%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	88.4%	2.2%	6.2%	2.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	88.6%	2.1%	5.7%	2.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.2%	2.4%	5.5%	2.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.2%	2.6%	5.5%	2.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.1%	2.9%	4.9%	1.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	90.8%	3.3%	3.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.0%	4.6%	3.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.9%	6.3%	4.3%	1.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.4%	8.1%	3.4%	1.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	82.5%	10.6%	3.6%	2.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	11.4%	2.9%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 90.8% and lowest in 2023 at 82.5%. Overall it fell from 89.3% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Belleville: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 8.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 2.9% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Belleville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Belleville?

The bars show when commuters in Belleville 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Belleville is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 10.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.4%) 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 Belleville, 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 Belleville 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 Belleville 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	Belleville	Illinois	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 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	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Belleville were on the road by 7:51 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Belleville now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Belleville has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Belleville in the whole series.

How does Belleville's commute time compare?

Metric	Belleville	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.4 min	23.6 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	11.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.9%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Belleville is 20.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

2.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Belleville, Illinois.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,275 at a typical national wage. That's 14% less than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Belleville, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Belleville, Illinois. 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.