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Bond County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Bond County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bond County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Bond County holds about 0.1% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bond County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,792 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)
Bond County 17.3 min 34.7 min 144 hrs/yr $4,479 502
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.

Commute Time Map: Illinois Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Illinois
  1. Edgar County (12.0 min)
  2. Brown County (12.7 min)
  3. Morgan County (13.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Illinois
  1. Calhoun County (43.8 min)
  2. Pulaski County (31.2 min)
  3. Pope County (31.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Bond County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.3 minutes to get to work in Bond County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bond County

  • Car: 85.5%
  • Worked at Home: 8.2%
  • Walked: 5.0%
  • Bicycle: 0.7%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Bond County: 100.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Bond County, versus 0.3% in Illinois.

Commute Mode Trends in Bond County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bond County 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 Bicycle Other Public Transportation Motorcycle Taxi
2009 89.7% 5.3% 4.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 92.1% 3.4% 3.8% 0.0% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 89.7% 4.4% 4.7% 0.1% 0.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 87.4% 5.0% 4.8% 0.2% 0.6% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 86.7% 5.6% 5.1% 0.3% 0.5% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 88.5% 5.4% 3.7% 0.3% 0.3% 1.7% 0.2% 0.0%
2015 83.0% 5.2% 9.4% 0.3% 0.2% 1.8% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 85.4% 4.5% 8.3% 0.2% 0.1% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0%
2017 87.0% 4.5% 7.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 87.5% 4.1% 7.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 86.2% 5.5% 7.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0%
2020 89.8% 6.2% 3.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0%
2021 87.0% 6.9% 4.8% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2022 86.3% 6.1% 6.1% 0.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2023 84.3% 8.1% 6.0% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2024 85.5% 8.2% 5.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.1% 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 2010 at 92.1% and lowest in 2015 at 83.0%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 85.5% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bond County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 9.4% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 5.0%.

Commute Start Times in Bond County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bond County?

The bars show when commuters in Bond County 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
6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
15.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bond County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.4% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Bond County, 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 Bond County 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 Bond County 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 Bond County Illinois United States
2009 7:28 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:33 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:36 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:30 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:35 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:29 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:28 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:28 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:22 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:22 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bond County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Bond County now leave 16 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 Bond County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Bond County's commute time compare?

Metric Bond County Illinois US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.3 min 23.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 8.2% 15.9% 15.0%
Walked 5.0% 2.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 5.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Bond County is 17.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 5.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bond County, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bond County, IL is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,715 residents against a local median of 27,942. The measure that sets Bond County, IL apart most is one-way commute: 17.3 min, 20% below the local median of 21.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 6.0 min on one-way commute, so Bond County, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bond County, IL has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Bond County, IL 16,715 17.3 min #2/6 8.2% #4/6 7:22 AM #5/6
Clinton County, IL 36,954 21.8 min 12.6% 7:15 AM
Montgomery County, IL 27,942 16.7 min 9.0% 7:20 AM
Fayette County, IL 21,314 21.8 min 7.1% 7:18 AM
Madison County, IL 264,024 22.7 min 12.7% 7:24 AM
Washington County, IL 13,623 22.3 min 7.4% 7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bond County, Illinois.

Is living in Bond County, Illinois good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 144 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,479 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Bond County, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Bond County, 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.

How common is public transit use in Bond County, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Illinois?

Among counties in Illinois, the shortest average commutes are in Edgar County (12.0 min), Brown County (12.7 min), Morgan County (13.1 min). The longest are in Calhoun County (43.8 min), Pulaski County (31.2 min), Pope County (31.0 min).