Elk Grove Village Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Elk Grove Village: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Elk Grove Village spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Elk Grove Village 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 Elk Grove Village would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,335 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)
Elk Grove Village	22.6 min	45.2 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,837	3,138
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.

Elk Grove Village Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Elk Grove Village. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Elk Grove Village

• Car: 82.1%
• Worked at Home: 14.2%
• Public Transportation: 1.7% unusually low
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Elk Grove Village, versus 0.1% in Illinois.

Public transit is unusually rare in Elk Grove Village: 3.5 times less than the Illinois average (1.7% vs 5.8%).

Walking is unusually rare in Elk Grove Village: 8.3 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 2.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Elk Grove Village: 12.7 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Elk Grove Village: just 1.0%, 3.2 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Elk Grove Village, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Elk Grove Village 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
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.5%	2.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	92.5%	2.6%	3.0%	0.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	3.0%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	91.5%	3.3%	3.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	90.8%	3.4%	3.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.6%	3.4%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	4.3%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	90.9%	4.6%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.9%	4.1%	3.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	89.9%	4.8%	3.1%	0.4%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.3%	4.4%	3.0%	0.2%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	87.5%	6.4%	3.6%	0.7%	0.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	86.3%	8.4%	3.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	83.1%	11.9%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	84.1%	11.7%	2.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.1%	14.2%	1.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 82.1% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Elk Grove Village: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 14.2% in 2024, up 11.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Elk Grove Village

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Elk Grove Village?

The bars show when commuters in Elk Grove Village 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 Elk Grove Village4.7% Illinois5.6%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Elk Grove Village3.2% Illinois4.3%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Elk Grove Village4.9% Illinois4.9%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Elk Grove Village7.7% Illinois9.0%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Elk Grove Village11.8% Illinois9.4%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Elk Grove Village16.3% Illinois14.3%	16.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Elk Grove Village10.7% Illinois11.6%	10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Elk Grove Village12.3% Illinois11.2%	12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Elk Grove Village6.5% Illinois5.2%	6.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Elk Grove Village6.8% Illinois6.1%	6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Elk Grove Village1.7% Illinois2.9%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Elk Grove Village1.8% Illinois1.5%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Elk Grove Village5.5% Illinois7.7%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Elk Grove Village6.1% Illinois6.3%	6.1%

Elk Grove Village Illinois Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Elk Grove Village is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 12.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 51.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Elk Grove Village, 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 Elk Grove Village 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 Elk Grove Village 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.

• Elk Grove Village
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Elk Grove Village	Illinois	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Elk Grove Village were on the road by 7:34 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Elk Grove Village now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Elk Grove Village's commute time compare?

Metric	Elk Grove Village	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Elk Grove Village is 22.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau