Burbank Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Burbank, 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 Burbank: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burbank spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Burbank 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 Burbank would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,162 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)
Burbank	30.6 min	61.2 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,906	6,438
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.

Burbank Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in Burbank. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burbank

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

Driving is 20% more common in Burbank than the Illinois average (88.7% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Burbank: 3.3 times less than the Illinois average (1.8% vs 5.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Burbank, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Burbank 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle
2009	93.3%	1.5%	3.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	92.9%	1.5%	3.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	92.1%	1.4%	4.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	91.0%	1.6%	5.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	90.6%	1.0%	6.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	90.8%	1.0%	6.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.3%	1.2%	7.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	90.1%	1.1%	7.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	89.3%	1.5%	7.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	88.6%	1.8%	7.3%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2019	89.2%	1.8%	7.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	88.5%	3.3%	5.9%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.4%	4.5%	4.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	89.7%	4.6%	3.2%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	5.3%	2.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	6.6%	1.8%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2020 at 88.5%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burbank: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 1.8% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Burbank

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burbank?

The bars show when commuters in Burbank 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		11.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burbank is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 23.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 39.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Burbank, 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 Burbank 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 Burbank 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	Burbank	Illinois	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burbank were on the road by 7:17 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Burbank now leave 21 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 Burbank has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Burbank in the whole series.

How does Burbank's commute time compare?

Metric	Burbank	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Burbank is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Burbank, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Burbank, IL compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Burbank, IL	23,423	30.6 min #2/2	6.6% #2/2	7:17 AM #1/2
Oak Lawn, IL	58,169	30.4 min	10.5%	7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Burbank, Illinois.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 255 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,906 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Burbank, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Burbank, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.8% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.