De Witt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in De Witt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in De Witt County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

De Witt 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 De Witt County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,628 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)
De Witt County	25.4 min	50.9 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,571	360
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.

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On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in De Witt County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in De Witt County

• Car: 86.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in De Witt County, versus 0.1% in Illinois.

Public transit is unusually rare in De Witt County: 17.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 5.8%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in De Witt County, versus 0.5% in Illinois.

Commute Mode Trends in De Witt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in De Witt 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.

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• Worked at Home
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	3.4%	2.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.6%	2.6%	3.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	2.4%	2.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.1%	3.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	3.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.3%	3.1%	2.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	3.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.2%	3.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	92.2%	4.8%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	92.3%	3.8%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%
2019	92.7%	3.5%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.2%
2020	92.6%	3.7%	2.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2021	90.0%	5.6%	3.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2022	90.9%	5.6%	2.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	7.6%	2.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	10.6%	1.8%	0.9%	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 peaked in 2014 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in De Witt County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in De Witt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in De Witt County?

The bars show when commuters in De Witt 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	12:00-4:59 AM De Witt County3.4% Illinois5.6%	3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM De Witt County4.7% Illinois4.3%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM De Witt County5.5% Illinois4.9%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM De Witt County9.1% Illinois9.0%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM De Witt County12.9% Illinois9.4%	12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM De Witt County20.5% Illinois14.3%	20.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM De Witt County10.2% Illinois11.6%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM De Witt County10.0% Illinois11.2%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM De Witt County3.3% Illinois5.2%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM De Witt County3.5% Illinois6.1%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM De Witt County2.2% Illinois2.9%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM De Witt County0.8% Illinois1.5%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM De Witt County5.2% Illinois7.7%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM De Witt County8.6% Illinois6.3%	8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in De Witt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 53.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 De Witt 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 De Witt 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 De Witt 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	De Witt County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in De Witt County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Illinois followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in De Witt County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does De Witt County's commute time compare?

Metric	De Witt County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in De Witt County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau