Johnson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Johnson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Johnson County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 250 hours, about 10.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Johnson 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 Johnson County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,102 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)
Johnson County	30.0 min	60.0 min	250 hrs/yr	$7,754	490
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 30.0 minutes to get to work in Johnson County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Johnson County

• Car: 93.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.8% unusually low
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.9% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 26% more common in Johnson County than the Illinois average (93.0% vs 73.7%).

Walking is unusually rare in Johnson County: 3.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.9% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Johnson County: 261.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Johnson County: 15.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Johnson County: 3.3 times less than the Illinois average (4.8% vs 15.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Johnson County: just 0.9%, 3.6 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Johnson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Johnson 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
• Other
• Walked
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.2%	4.0%	1.0%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	2.9%	0.6%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	93.7%	3.3%	0.3%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	93.9%	3.2%	0.4%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	91.4%	5.2%	0.3%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	92.3%	4.9%	0.5%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	92.2%	5.1%	0.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	91.4%	4.8%	0.7%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	88.6%	5.9%	1.0%	4.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.4%	5.3%	1.0%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	89.3%	6.7%	1.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.7%	6.5%	1.1%	2.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.2%	7.8%	1.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	7.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.9%	5.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.0%	4.8%	1.3%	0.9%	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 was highest in 2012 at 93.9% and lowest in 2017 at 88.6%. Overall it rose from 92.2% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Johnson County: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 7.8% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 4.8%.

Commute Start Times in Johnson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Johnson County?

The bars show when commuters in Johnson 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 Johnson County4.8% Illinois5.6%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Johnson County2.7% Illinois4.3%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Johnson County3.4% Illinois4.9%	3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Johnson County9.7% Illinois9.0%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Johnson County9.9% Illinois9.4%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Johnson County12.4% Illinois14.3%	12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Johnson County13.7% Illinois11.6%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Johnson County20.4% Illinois11.2%	20.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Johnson County2.0% Illinois5.2%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Johnson County4.9% Illinois6.1%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Johnson County1.0% Illinois2.9%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Johnson County0.0% Illinois1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Johnson County7.1% Illinois7.7%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Johnson County8.0% Illinois6.3%	8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Johnson County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 56.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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	Johnson County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Johnson County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Johnson County now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Johnson County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Johnson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Johnson County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.0 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	4.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Johnson County is 30.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.0% 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