Jasper County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jasper County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jasper County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Jasper 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 Jasper County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,372 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)
Jasper County	23.0 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,931	756
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 23.0 minutes to get to work in Jasper County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in Illinois

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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jasper County

• Car: 89.4% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.7% unusually low
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Jasper County: 27578357.9 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 21% more common in Jasper County than the Illinois average (89.4% vs 73.7%).

Walking is unusually rare in Jasper County: 5.4 times less than the Illinois average (0.5% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Jasper County: 8.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.7% vs 5.8%).

Biking is essentially absent in Jasper County, versus 0.5% in Illinois.

Few people walk or bike to work in Jasper County: just 0.5%, 6.5 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jasper County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jasper 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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• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.1%	8.7%	0.3%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2010	87.9%	9.5%	0.2%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	86.8%	9.2%	0.5%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	88.2%	8.3%	0.5%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	88.2%	9.0%	0.3%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	5.8%	0.3%	0.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.4%	5.7%	0.4%	0.1%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.5%	7.0%	0.1%	0.1%	2.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	87.6%	7.9%	0.3%	0.1%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	87.9%	6.8%	0.7%	0.1%	3.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	87.9%	8.0%	0.9%	0.0%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	88.5%	8.1%	1.5%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.9%	7.0%	1.3%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.2%	7.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.7%	6.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	8.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2023 at 90.7% and lowest in 2011 at 86.8%. Overall it rose from 88.1% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Jasper County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.7% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Jasper County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jasper County?

The bars show when commuters in Jasper 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 Jasper County7.9% Illinois5.6%	7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jasper County5.9% Illinois4.3%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jasper County6.4% Illinois4.9%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jasper County8.2% Illinois9.0%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jasper County15.2% Illinois9.4%	15.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jasper County14.9% Illinois14.3%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jasper County15.3% Illinois11.6%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jasper County8.3% Illinois11.2%	8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jasper County1.5% Illinois5.2%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jasper County1.3% Illinois6.1%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jasper County2.0% Illinois2.9%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jasper County0.0% Illinois1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jasper County7.8% Illinois7.7%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jasper County5.3% Illinois6.3%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jasper County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 53.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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.

• Jasper County
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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Jasper County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:11 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	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jasper County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Illinois followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Jasper County now leave 25 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 Jasper County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Jasper County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jasper County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	8.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jasper County is 23.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau