Loves Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Loves Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Loves Park spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.1 minutes.

Loves Park 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 Loves Park would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,813 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)
Loves Park	17.5 min	35.1 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,531	2,016
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.

Loves Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Loves Park. That's 22% shorter 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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Loves Park

• Car: 89.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 21% more common in Loves Park than the Illinois average (89.1% vs 73.7%).

Walking is unusually rare in Loves Park: 5.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.5% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Loves Park: 422.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 5.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Loves Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Loves Park 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
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation
2009	95.2%	3.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	94.9%	3.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	95.3%	3.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	95.4%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	95.2%	2.7%	0.3%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	95.3%	3.0%	0.1%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	95.3%	2.6%	0.3%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	94.3%	2.7%	0.5%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2017	94.4%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%
2018	93.9%	3.3%	0.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.9%
2019	94.4%	2.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.9%
2020	94.3%	3.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	93.3%	4.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	91.5%	6.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.1%	7.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	89.1%	8.2%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	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 95.4%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Loves Park: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Loves Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Loves Park?

The bars show when commuters in Loves Park 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 Loves Park7.1% Illinois5.6%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Loves Park3.9% Illinois4.3%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Loves Park6.1% Illinois4.9%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Loves Park8.4% Illinois9.0%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Loves Park12.5% Illinois9.4%	12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Loves Park12.7% Illinois14.3%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Loves Park9.7% Illinois11.6%	9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Loves Park8.5% Illinois11.2%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Loves Park4.0% Illinois5.2%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Loves Park4.4% Illinois6.1%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Loves Park4.2% Illinois2.9%	4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Loves Park1.4% Illinois1.5%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Loves Park10.5% Illinois7.7%	10.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Loves Park6.6% Illinois6.3%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Loves Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 43.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) 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 Loves Park, 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 Loves Park 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 Loves Park 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.

• Loves Park
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Loves Park	Illinois	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Loves Park were on the road by 7:28 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Loves Park now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Loves Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Loves Park	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	8.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Loves Park is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau