Edgar County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Edgar County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edgar County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 100 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

Edgar 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 Edgar County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,240 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)
Edgar County	12.0 min	24.0 min	100 hrs/yr	$3,101	483
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 12.0 minutes to get to work in Edgar County. That's 46% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edgar County

• Car: 90.9% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.4% unusually low
• Walked: 2.9%
• Public Transportation: 1.3% unusually low
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 23% more common in Edgar County than the Illinois average (90.9% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Edgar County: 4.6 times less than the Illinois average (1.3% vs 5.8%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Edgar County: 3.6 times less than the Illinois average (4.4% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Edgar County: 4.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Edgar County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edgar 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.4%	5.2%	3.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.4%	5.3%	3.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.5%	5.6%	4.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	89.5%	5.4%	3.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	90.5%	5.9%	2.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.8%	3.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.5%	3.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	4.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	4.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	4.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.3%	5.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	5.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	4.4%	2.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.6%	3.8%	2.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	92.0%	4.7%	2.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	90.9%	4.4%	2.9%	1.3%	0.3%	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 2015 at 94.5% and lowest in 2011 at 88.5%. Overall it rose from 90.4% in 2009 to 90.9% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Edgar County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 1.3% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 4.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.5% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Edgar County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edgar County?

The bars show when commuters in Edgar 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 Edgar County9.8% Illinois5.6%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Edgar County3.0% Illinois4.3%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Edgar County9.1% Illinois4.9%	9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Edgar County9.8% Illinois9.0%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Edgar County11.1% Illinois9.4%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Edgar County9.8% Illinois14.3%	9.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Edgar County15.4% Illinois11.6%	15.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Edgar County9.2% Illinois11.2%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Edgar County2.3% Illinois5.2%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Edgar County2.8% Illinois6.1%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Edgar County1.6% Illinois2.9%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Edgar County1.3% Illinois1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Edgar County7.7% Illinois7.7%	7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Edgar County7.1% Illinois6.3%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Edgar County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 22.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 45.6% 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 Edgar 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 Edgar 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 Edgar 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	Edgar County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edgar County were on the road by 7:22 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Illinois, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Edgar 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 Edgar County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Edgar County's commute time compare?

Metric	Edgar County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.0 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	4.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edgar County is 12.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau