Machesney Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Machesney Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Machesney Park spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Machesney 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 Machesney Park would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,915 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)
Machesney Park	18.5 min	37.1 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,788	2,083
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.

Machesney Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Machesney Park. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Machesney Park

• Car: 88.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 9.1%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 21% more common in Machesney Park than the Illinois average (88.8% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Machesney Park: 40.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 5.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Machesney Park: 57590462.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Machesney Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Machesney 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
• Walked
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	95.5%	2.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	95.8%	2.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	95.5%	2.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%
2012	95.6%	2.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	95.3%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2014	95.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	95.8%	2.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	95.5%	3.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	95.8%	2.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	96.2%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2019	95.9%	2.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	93.3%	4.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	92.9%	5.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	91.9%	6.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	90.1%	8.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	88.8%	9.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2018 at 96.2%. Overall it fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Machesney Park: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Machesney Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Machesney Park?

The bars show when commuters in Machesney 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 Machesney Park8.0% Illinois5.6%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Machesney Park5.2% Illinois4.3%	5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Machesney Park7.3% Illinois4.9%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Machesney Park8.2% Illinois9.0%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Machesney Park10.0% Illinois9.4%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Machesney Park13.5% Illinois14.3%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Machesney Park15.7% Illinois11.6%	15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Machesney Park8.1% Illinois11.2%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Machesney Park3.5% Illinois5.2%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Machesney Park4.2% Illinois6.1%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Machesney Park2.1% Illinois2.9%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Machesney Park0.9% Illinois1.5%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Machesney Park5.9% Illinois7.7%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Machesney Park7.4% Illinois6.3%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Machesney Park is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Machesney 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 Machesney 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 Machesney 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.

• Machesney Park
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Machesney Park	Illinois	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Machesney Park were on the road by 7:25 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Illinois, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Machesney Park now leave 13 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 Machesney Park has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Machesney Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Machesney Park	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Machesney Park is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.1% 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