Hancock County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hancock County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hancock County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Hancock 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 Hancock County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,199 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)
Hancock County	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,498	338
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 21.3 minutes to get to work in Hancock County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hancock County

• Car: 89.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.5%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hancock County: 5.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 22% more common in Hancock County than the Illinois average (89.5% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Hancock County: 41.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 5.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hancock County: 3.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hancock County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hancock 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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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	89.9%	6.1%	3.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	90.0%	6.8%	2.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	90.1%	6.8%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	89.8%	6.8%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	89.9%	7.2%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	89.4%	7.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	89.2%	7.5%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	6.9%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	5.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	91.8%	5.1%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	92.3%	5.1%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.8%	6.2%	2.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	90.3%	6.7%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	7.5%	2.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	88.6%	7.9%	2.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	7.5%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2019 at 92.3% and lowest in 2023 at 88.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 89.9% in 2009 and 89.5% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hancock County: its share of workers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 2.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hancock County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hancock County?

The bars show when commuters in Hancock 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 Hancock County4.9% Illinois5.6%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hancock County7.0% Illinois4.3%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hancock County4.3% Illinois4.9%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hancock County12.7% Illinois9.0%	12.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hancock County10.1% Illinois9.4%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hancock County18.1% Illinois14.3%	18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hancock County13.3% Illinois11.6%	13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hancock County8.5% Illinois11.2%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hancock County2.3% Illinois5.2%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hancock County4.2% Illinois6.1%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hancock County2.5% Illinois2.9%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hancock County0.9% Illinois1.5%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hancock County6.7% Illinois7.7%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hancock County4.5% Illinois6.3%	4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hancock County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Hancock 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 Hancock 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 Hancock 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	Hancock County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hancock County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Hancock County now leave 20 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 Hancock County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Hancock County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hancock County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hancock County is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau