Calumet City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Calumet City, 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 Calumet City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Calumet City spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.8 minutes.

Calumet City holds about 0.3% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Calumet City would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,250 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)
Calumet City	31.5 min	62.9 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,126	3,066
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.

Calumet City Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.5 minutes to get to work in Calumet City. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Calumet City

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

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Calumet City, versus 0.3% in Illinois.

Biking is essentially absent in Calumet City, versus 0.5% in Illinois.

Commute Mode Trends in Calumet City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Calumet City 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.9%	10.8%	2.2%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.3%	11.2%	1.9%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	84.9%	10.2%	2.1%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.3%	8.5%	1.4%	2.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	85.3%	9.9%	1.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	84.7%	9.5%	1.6%	1.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	85.5%	9.3%	1.9%	0.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	84.2%	10.2%	2.4%	0.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	82.2%	11.0%	2.4%	2.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	79.9%	11.8%	3.9%	2.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	80.1%	11.4%	4.7%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	78.7%	10.9%	6.2%	1.6%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	79.6%	10.2%	6.5%	1.4%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	80.0%	8.8%	7.3%	2.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	80.7%	8.2%	7.1%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.8%	9.4%	9.1%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2012 at 86.3% and lowest in 2020 at 78.7%. Overall it fell from 84.9% in 2009 to 78.8% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Calumet City: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 10.8% to 9.4% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Calumet City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Calumet City?

The bars show when commuters in Calumet City 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		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		2.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		11.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Calumet City is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 11.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.7% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 31.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (34.3%) 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 Calumet City, 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 Calumet City 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 Calumet City 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	Calumet City	Illinois	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 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	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:03 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Calumet City were on the road by 8:03 AM, 37 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Calumet City now leave 25 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 Calumet City has moved 45 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Calumet City in the whole series.

How does Calumet City's commute time compare?

Metric	Calumet City	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.5 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	9.4%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Calumet City is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

9.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 5.8% in Illinois. 2.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Calumet City, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Calumet City, IL is the 2nd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 34,245 residents against a local median of 23,947. The measure that sets Calumet City, IL apart most is work from home: 9.1%, 15% below the local median of 10.7%.

The cities themselves spread 4.9% on work from home, so Calumet City, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Calumet City, IL has the 4th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Calumet City, IL	34,245	31.5 min #4/5	9.1% #4/5	8:03 AM #5/5
Lansing, IL	25,475	31.1 min	10.0%	7:18 AM
Dolton, IL	20,134	30.5 min	11.8%	7:36 AM
South Holland, IL	22,419	31.8 min	11.4%	7:21 AM
Hammond, IN	76,072	22.3 min	6.9%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Calumet City, Illinois.

Is commuting expensive in Calumet City, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,126 at a typical national wage. That's 33% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Calumet City, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.