Kendall County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kendall County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kendall County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Kendall County holds about 1.1% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kendall County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,165 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)
Kendall County	30.6 min	61.3 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,912	2,278
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 30.6 minutes to get to work in Kendall County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kendall County

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 14.7%
• Public Transportation: 1.0% unusually low
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Walking is unusually rare in Kendall County: 4.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.6% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kendall County: 5.9 times less than the Illinois average (1.0% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Kendall County: 4.3 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Kendall County: 12.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Kendall County: just 0.6%, 5.3 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Kendall County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.7%	4.1%	3.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.1%	4.3%	3.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	91.0%	4.4%	3.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	91.1%	4.6%	2.7%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.4%	4.2%	2.7%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	91.5%	4.3%	2.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.4%	3.7%	2.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.7%	4.3%	2.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	90.7%	4.8%	3.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.9%	4.7%	2.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	5.7%	2.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.6%	7.6%	1.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.1%	10.3%	1.1%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.0%	11.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	13.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	14.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	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 2015 at 92.4%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kendall County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 14.7% in 2024, up 10.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kendall County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kendall County?

The bars show when commuters in Kendall 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 Kendall County6.6% Illinois5.6%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kendall County6.8% Illinois4.3%	6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kendall County5.6% Illinois4.9%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kendall County10.5% Illinois9.0%	10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kendall County11.4% Illinois9.4%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kendall County16.6% Illinois14.3%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kendall County8.3% Illinois11.6%	8.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kendall County9.2% Illinois11.2%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kendall County3.5% Illinois5.2%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kendall County4.9% Illinois6.1%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kendall County2.9% Illinois2.9%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kendall County1.7% Illinois1.5%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kendall County7.0% Illinois7.7%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kendall County5.0% Illinois6.3%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kendall County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Kendall 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 Kendall 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 Kendall 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	Kendall County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kendall County were on the road by 7:16 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Illinois, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Kendall County now leave 21 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 Kendall County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Kendall County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kendall County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kendall County is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau