Henderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henderson 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 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Henderson County holds about 0.0% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henderson County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,431 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)
Henderson County	23.5 min	47.1 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,078	329
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 23.5 minutes to get to work in Henderson County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Illinois

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 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Henderson County

• Car: 94.6% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.2% unusually low
• Walked: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Driving is 28% more common in Henderson County than the Illinois average (94.6% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Henderson County: 21.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 5.8%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Henderson County: 3.8 times less than the Illinois average (4.2% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Henderson County: 155697.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Henderson County: just 0.9%, 3.5 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Henderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Henderson 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	89.6%	4.5%	4.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	89.3%	5.9%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	89.7%	6.9%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	89.4%	6.7%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	89.7%	6.7%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	5.4%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	92.3%	4.5%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	92.4%	3.1%	2.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2017	91.9%	4.7%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	91.6%	5.2%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	90.0%	7.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2020	91.7%	5.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2021	92.3%	5.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	92.8%	5.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	92.7%	5.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	94.6%	4.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	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 bottomed out in 2010 at 89.3%. Overall it rose from 89.6% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 3.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 4.2%.

Commute Start Times in Henderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Henderson 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 Henderson County7.2% Illinois5.6%	7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Henderson County7.0% Illinois4.3%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Henderson County8.0% Illinois4.9%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Henderson County8.2% Illinois9.0%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Henderson County11.7% Illinois9.4%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Henderson County15.2% Illinois14.3%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Henderson County14.9% Illinois11.6%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Henderson County6.9% Illinois11.2%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Henderson County2.1% Illinois5.2%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Henderson County3.7% Illinois6.1%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Henderson County0.6% Illinois2.9%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Henderson County0.5% Illinois1.5%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Henderson County5.7% Illinois7.7%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Henderson County8.2% Illinois6.3%	8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henderson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 22.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 48.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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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• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Henderson County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:03 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henderson County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Henderson County now leave 22 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 Henderson County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Henderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henderson County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	4.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henderson County is about the same as in Illinois.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau