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Commute Time Burden in Menard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Menard County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Menard County holds about 0.1% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Menard County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,819 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)
Menard County 27.3 min 54.6 min 227 hrs/yr $7,048 1,213
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.

Commute Time Map: Illinois Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Illinois
  1. Edgar County (12.0 min)
  2. Brown County (12.7 min)
  3. Morgan County (13.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Illinois
  1. Calhoun County (43.8 min)
  2. Pulaski County (31.2 min)
  3. Pope County (31.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Menard County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.3 minutes to get to work in Menard County. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Menard County

  • Car: 86.8%
  • Worked at Home: 11.0%
  • Walked: 1.8%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Menard County: 26186389.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Menard County, versus 5.8% in Illinois.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Menard County, versus 0.3% in Illinois.

Biking is essentially absent in Menard County, versus 0.5% in Illinois.

Commute Mode Trends in Menard County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Menard 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.

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 Walked Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 91.5% 6.1% 1.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 92.4% 5.7% 1.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 92.2% 5.9% 1.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 93.0% 4.9% 1.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 92.9% 4.3% 2.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 93.6% 3.7% 2.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 94.2% 3.6% 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 94.4% 3.3% 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 92.8% 4.9% 1.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
2018 92.3% 6.1% 0.8% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2019 92.7% 4.9% 1.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 91.0% 6.8% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2021 89.3% 8.1% 1.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 90.1% 7.2% 2.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 89.1% 8.1% 2.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 86.8% 11.0% 1.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 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 2016 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Menard County: its share of workers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Menard County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Illinois's 102 counties: 60.5% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Menard County?

The bars show when commuters in Menard 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
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Menard County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 60.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.6%) 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 Menard 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 Menard 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 Menard 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Menard County Illinois United States
2009 7:19 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:19 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:16 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:20 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:20 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:21 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:18 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:18 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:17 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:16 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:19 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Menard County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Menard County now leave 15 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 Menard County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Menard County in the whole series.

How does Menard County's commute time compare?

Metric Menard County Illinois US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.3 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.0% 15.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.8% 2.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 5.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Menard County is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Menard County, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Menard County, IL is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 12,095 residents against a local median of 27,712. The measure that sets Menard County, IL apart most is one-way commute: 27.3 min, 68% above the local median of 16.2 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 11.0% against a local median of 8.7%, 26% above it. The counties themselves spread 15.4 min on one-way commute, so Menard County, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Menard County, IL has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Menard County, IL 12,095 27.3 min #5/6 11.0% #2/6 7:22 AM #3/6
Mason County, IL 12,741 28.5 min 8.2% 7:11 AM
Sangamon County, IL 194,875 17.6 min 13.7% 7:41 AM
Logan County, IL 27,712 16.2 min 8.7% 7:30 AM
Cass County, IL 12,785 15.6 min 5.7% 7:12 AM
Morgan County, IL 33,021 13.1 min 8.9% 7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Menard County, Illinois.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Menard County, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 227 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,048 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Menard County, Illinois?

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

Do people use public transit in Menard County, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Illinois?

Among counties in Illinois, the shortest average commutes are in Edgar County (12.0 min), Brown County (12.7 min), Morgan County (13.1 min). The longest are in Calhoun County (43.8 min), Pulaski County (31.2 min), Pope County (31.0 min).