Jo Daviess County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jo Daviess County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jo Daviess County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Jo Daviess County holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jo Daviess County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,865 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)
Jo Daviess County	18.0 min	36.1 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,662	666
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 18.0 minutes to get to work in Jo Daviess County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jo Daviess County

• Car: 82.5%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 4.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.6% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Jo Daviess County: 9.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.6% vs 5.8%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Jo Daviess County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jo Daviess 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.0%	9.5%	4.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	83.8%	8.6%	5.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	86.4%	7.3%	4.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	87.5%	6.5%	4.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	87.3%	7.0%	4.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.1%	5.5%	3.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	89.5%	5.8%	3.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.8%	5.1%	3.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.7%	6.4%	4.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	87.6%	6.3%	4.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	85.6%	7.9%	4.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	84.8%	9.0%	4.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.2%	10.3%	3.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	83.3%	11.5%	3.8%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.8%	12.0%	4.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.5%	12.5%	4.0%	0.6%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2016 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 84.0% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 1.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jo Daviess County: its share of workers rose from 9.5% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.9% to 4.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jo Daviess County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jo Daviess County?

The bars show when commuters in Jo Daviess 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 Jo Daviess County7.4% Illinois5.6%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jo Daviess County4.6% Illinois4.3%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jo Daviess County5.5% Illinois4.9%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jo Daviess County11.7% Illinois9.0%	11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jo Daviess County11.9% Illinois9.4%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jo Daviess County11.8% Illinois14.3%	11.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jo Daviess County11.9% Illinois11.6%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jo Daviess County9.6% Illinois11.2%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jo Daviess County1.6% Illinois5.2%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jo Daviess County4.3% Illinois6.1%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jo Daviess County3.8% Illinois2.9%	3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jo Daviess County2.6% Illinois1.5%	2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jo Daviess County8.2% Illinois7.7%	8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jo Daviess County5.0% Illinois6.3%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jo Daviess County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 11.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.4% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Jo Daviess 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 Jo Daviess 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 Jo Daviess 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	Jo Daviess County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jo Daviess County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Jo Daviess County now leave 15 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 Jo Daviess County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Jo Daviess County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jo Daviess County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.0 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	12.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	4.0%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jo Daviess County is 18.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau