Lombard Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lombard, Illinois: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

Updated 22 September 2026

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Commute Time Burden in Lombard: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lombard spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Lombard holds about 0.3% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lombard would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,334 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)
Lombard	22.6 min	45.2 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,834	4,930
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.

Lombard Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Lombard. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lombard

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Lombard: 7.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lombard, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lombard 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.7%	3.1%	5.0%	1.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	87.8%	3.1%	5.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	88.2%	2.7%	5.5%	1.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	88.8%	3.0%	4.9%	1.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	88.6%	4.0%	4.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	88.3%	4.4%	4.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	86.9%	5.5%	4.5%	1.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	84.3%	7.0%	4.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	82.8%	7.4%	6.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	83.1%	7.3%	6.3%	2.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	82.7%	7.5%	6.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	81.0%	9.3%	6.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	79.4%	13.4%	5.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	77.2%	16.7%	3.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	75.1%	18.7%	3.7%	1.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	75.0%	20.0%	2.3%	1.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	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 88.8%. Overall it fell from 88.7% in 2009 to 75.0% in 2024, down 13.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lombard: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 20.0% in 2024, up 16.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.0% to 2.3% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Lombard

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lombard?

The bars show when commuters in Lombard 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lombard is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.4%) 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 Lombard, 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 Lombard 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 Lombard 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lombard	Illinois	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lombard were on the road by 7:45 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Lombard 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 Lombard has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Lombard's commute time compare?

Metric	Lombard	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lombard is 22.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

2.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lombard, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Lombard, IL is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 44,068 residents against a local median of 27,036. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Lombard, IL an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 4% below the local median at 20.0% against 21.0%. Lombard, IL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lombard, IL	44,068	22.6 min #2/4	20.0% #3/4	7:45 AM #4/4
Villa Park, IL	21,774	23.5 min	21.0%	7:29 AM
Glen Ellyn, IL	27,036	23.5 min	30.9%	7:45 AM
Addison, IL	33,056	22.4 min	13.0%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lombard, Illinois.

Is living in Lombard, Illinois good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,834 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Lombard, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Lombard, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.