Bloomingdale Commute Time Map & Patterns
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Commute Time Burden in Bloomingdale: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Bloomingdale spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.
Bloomingdale 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 Bloomingdale would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,652 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomingdale | 25.7 min | 51.3 min | 214 hrs/yr | $6,629 | 4,673 |
| 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.
Bloomingdale Commute Map
On average, it takes 25.7 minutes to get to work in Bloomingdale. That's 14% 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 16.7% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Bloomingdale
- Car: 79.5%
- Worked at Home: 16.7%
- Public Transportation: 1.9% unusually low
- Walked: 1.2%
- Other: 0.3%
- Taxi: 0.3%
- Motorcycle: 0.1%
- Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Bloomingdale: 3.1 times less than the Illinois average (1.9% vs 5.8%).
Biking is unusually rare in Bloomingdale: 17.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.5%).
Commute Mode Trends in Bloomingdale, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Bloomingdale 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.
Show commute mode data by year
| Year | Car | Worked at Home | Public Transportation | Walked | Taxi | Other | Motorcycle | Bicycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 90.7% | 4.3% | 3.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 2010 | 90.9% | 4.4% | 3.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| 2011 | 90.4% | 4.4% | 3.3% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 2012 | 91.8% | 3.9% | 2.7% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 2013 | 92.6% | 4.2% | 2.2% | 0.7% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | 90.8% | 5.2% | 2.7% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| 2015 | 91.4% | 4.7% | 2.6% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 2016 | 91.5% | 4.0% | 2.9% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 2017 | 91.2% | 4.0% | 3.2% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 91.1% | 4.3% | 3.4% | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 91.0% | 4.1% | 3.3% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 88.3% | 7.5% | 2.8% | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 85.4% | 10.8% | 2.0% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 83.3% | 13.1% | 1.7% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 81.0% | 15.1% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 79.5% | 16.7% | 1.9% | 1.2% | 0.3% | 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 peaked in 2013 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, down 11.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Bloomingdale: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 16.7% in 2024, up 12.4 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 1.9% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Bloomingdale
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bloomingdale?
The bars show when commuters in Bloomingdale 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 |
12:00-4:59 AM
Bloomingdale3.1%
Illinois5.6%
|
3.1% |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00-5:29 AM |
5:00-5:29 AM
Bloomingdale5.3%
Illinois4.3%
|
5.3% |
| 5:30-5:59 AM |
5:30-5:59 AM
Bloomingdale4.2%
Illinois4.9%
|
4.2% |
| 6:00-6:29 AM |
6:00-6:29 AM
Bloomingdale8.1%
Illinois9.0%
|
8.1% |
| 6:30-6:59 AM |
6:30-6:59 AM
Bloomingdale11.7%
Illinois9.4%
|
11.7% |
| 7:00-7:29 AM |
7:00-7:29 AM
Bloomingdale13.6%
Illinois14.3%
|
13.6% |
| 7:30-7:59 AM |
7:30-7:59 AM
Bloomingdale13.5%
Illinois11.6%
|
13.5% |
| 8:00-8:29 AM |
8:00-8:29 AM
Bloomingdale11.0%
Illinois11.2%
|
11.0% |
| 8:30-8:59 AM |
8:30-8:59 AM
Bloomingdale6.6%
Illinois5.2%
|
6.6% |
| 9:00-9:59 AM |
9:00-9:59 AM
Bloomingdale5.3%
Illinois6.1%
|
5.3% |
| 10:00-10:59 AM |
10:00-10:59 AM
Bloomingdale3.8%
Illinois2.9%
|
3.8% |
| 11:00-11:59 AM |
11:00-11:59 AM
Bloomingdale1.6%
Illinois1.5%
|
1.6% |
| 12:00-3:59 PM |
12:00-3:59 PM
Bloomingdale6.0%
Illinois7.7%
|
6.0% |
| 4:00-11:59 PM |
4:00-11:59 PM
Bloomingdale6.3%
Illinois6.3%
|
6.3% |
Bloomingdale Illinois Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Bloomingdale is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Bloomingdale, 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 Bloomingdale 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 Bloomingdale 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.
Show typical departure times by year
| Year | Bloomingdale | Illinois | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7:38 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2010 | 7:38 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2011 | 7:37 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2012 | 7:37 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2013 | 7:37 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2014 | 7:38 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2015 | 7:39 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2016 | 7:35 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2017 | 7:36 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2018 | 7:34 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2019 | 7:37 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2020 | 7:35 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2021 | 7:38 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2022 | 7:38 AM | 7:35 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2023 | 7:39 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2024 | 7:39 AM | 7:36 AM | 7:38 AM |
In 2024, half of commuters in Bloomingdale were on the road by 7:39 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Illinois, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Bloomingdale now leave 1 minute 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 Bloomingdale has moved 2 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bloomingdale in the whole series.
How does Bloomingdale's commute time compare?
| Metric | Bloomingdale | Illinois | US Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avg. Commute Time | 25.7 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 | 16.7% | 15.9% | 15.0% |
| Walked | 1.2% | 2.8% | 2.4% |
| Public Transit | 1.9% | 5.8% | 3.2% |
The average commute time in Bloomingdale is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.
1.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.
Bloomingdale, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities
Bloomingdale, IL is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 24,204 residents against a local median of 30,659. Where Bloomingdale, IL breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 47% above the local median of 11.4% at 16.7%.
The cities themselves spread 5.0% on work from home, so Bloomingdale, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bloomingdale, IL has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.
| Area | Population | One-way commute | Work from home | Typical departure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomingdale, IL | 24,204 | 25.7 min #4/4 | 16.7% #1/4 | 7:39 AM #3/4 |
| Glendale Heights, IL | 22,861 | 22.9 min | 11.4% | 7:27 AM |
| Carol Stream, IL | 37,373 | 23.8 min | 15.3% | 7:44 AM |
| Hanover Park, IL | 30,659 | 25.2 min | 10.4% | 7:28 AM |
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about commuting in Bloomingdale, Illinois.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Bloomingdale, Illinois?
Commuters here spend an estimated 214 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,629 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bloomingdale, Illinois?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bloomingdale, 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.
Do people use public transit in Bloomingdale, Illinois?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.9% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.