Grundy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grundy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grundy County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Grundy County holds about 0.4% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grundy County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,420 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)
Grundy County	23.4 min	46.8 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,049	1,035
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.

Commute Time Map: Illinois Counties

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On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Grundy County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grundy County

• Car: 87.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Grundy County: 5.7 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Grundy County: 16.4 times less than the Illinois average (0.4% vs 5.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Grundy County: 9.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Grundy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grundy 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.8%	3.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.6%	3.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	93.3%	3.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.3%	3.3%	1.5%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	93.2%	3.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	93.0%	3.6%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.3%	3.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.1%	3.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.0%	3.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.5%	3.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.9%	3.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.7%	6.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	90.2%	7.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	89.9%	8.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	9.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.4%	10.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2018 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 87.4% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grundy County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Grundy County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grundy County?

The bars show when commuters in Grundy 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 Grundy County9.5% Illinois5.6%	9.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grundy County7.1% Illinois4.3%	7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grundy County5.3% Illinois4.9%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grundy County12.2% Illinois9.0%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grundy County10.4% Illinois9.4%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grundy County15.3% Illinois14.3%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grundy County8.0% Illinois11.6%	8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grundy County8.2% Illinois11.2%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grundy County3.3% Illinois5.2%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grundy County3.4% Illinois6.1%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grundy County1.3% Illinois2.9%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grundy County1.0% Illinois1.5%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grundy County8.4% Illinois7.7%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grundy County6.7% Illinois6.3%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grundy County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 41.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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.

• Grundy County
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grundy County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grundy County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Grundy County now leave 27 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 Grundy County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Grundy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grundy County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grundy County is 23.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau