Lake in the Hills Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lake in the Hills: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lake in the Hills spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Lake in the Hills holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lake in the Hills would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,139 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)
Lake in the Hills	30.4 min	60.7 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,846	4,260
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.

Lake in the Hills Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Lake in the Hills. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 17.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lake in the Hills

• Car: 79.9%
• Worked at Home: 17.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.1% unusually low
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Lake in the Hills: 4.9 times less than the Illinois average (0.6% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Lake in the Hills: 5.3 times less than the Illinois average (1.1% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Lake in the Hills: 7.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Lake in the Hills: 7.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Lake in the Hills: just 0.6%, 5.2 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lake in the Hills, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lake in the Hills 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
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.3%	5.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.2%	5.6%	1.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	91.3%	5.0%	2.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.7%	5.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.5%	5.1%	2.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	90.8%	5.2%	2.5%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	91.0%	5.0%	2.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	90.7%	5.5%	2.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	5.5%	2.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	6.0%	2.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	91.1%	5.9%	1.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	88.6%	8.4%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.7%	10.7%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	83.9%	14.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	82.3%	15.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	79.9%	17.5%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 79.9% in 2024, down 11.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lake in the Hills: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 17.5% in 2024, up 11.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lake in the Hills

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lake in the Hills?

The bars show when commuters in Lake in the Hills 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 Lake in the Hills6.7% Illinois5.6%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lake in the Hills3.5% Illinois4.3%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lake in the Hills7.3% Illinois4.9%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lake in the Hills8.7% Illinois9.0%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lake in the Hills12.1% Illinois9.4%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lake in the Hills12.9% Illinois14.3%	12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lake in the Hills11.7% Illinois11.6%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lake in the Hills10.8% Illinois11.2%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lake in the Hills4.4% Illinois5.2%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lake in the Hills5.5% Illinois6.1%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lake in the Hills3.2% Illinois2.9%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lake in the Hills1.0% Illinois1.5%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lake in the Hills6.2% Illinois7.7%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lake in the Hills6.0% Illinois6.3%	6.0%

Lake in the Hills Illinois Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lake in the Hills is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% 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: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Lake in the Hills, 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 Lake in the Hills 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 Lake in the Hills 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.

• Lake in the Hills
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lake in the Hills	Illinois	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lake in the Hills were on the road by 7:27 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Lake in the Hills now leave 10 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 Lake in the Hills has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Lake in the Hills's commute time compare?

Metric	Lake in the Hills	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	17.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lake in the Hills is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.1% 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