Moline Commute Time Map & Patterns

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

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Commute Time Burden in Moline: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Moline spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Moline holds about 0.3% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Moline would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,724 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)
Moline	16.7 min	33.4 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,311	2,374
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.

Moline Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.7 minutes to get to work in Moline. That's 26% 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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Moline

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Moline: 3891.9 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Moline: 3.5 times less than the Illinois average (1.7% vs 5.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Moline, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Moline 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	94.0%	2.0%	0.7%	2.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.0%	1.9%	1.2%	2.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.1%	1.9%	1.2%	2.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.5%	1.9%	1.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.6%	1.8%	1.6%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	92.8%	1.8%	1.4%	1.6%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	92.3%	1.5%	1.5%	1.3%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	92.2%	1.6%	1.7%	1.2%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	92.6%	1.9%	1.8%	1.2%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.6%	2.0%	1.9%	1.2%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	2.1%	2.0%	1.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.8%	3.5%	2.2%	1.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.3%	4.5%	1.5%	1.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.5%	5.9%	1.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	88.4%	7.6%	1.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	85.9%	9.9%	1.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	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 2011 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 85.9% in 2024, down 8.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Moline: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Moline

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Moline?

The bars show when commuters in Moline 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Moline is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Moline, 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 Moline 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 Moline 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	Moline	Illinois	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Moline were on the road by 7:39 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Moline now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Moline has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Moline's commute time compare?

Metric	Moline	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.7 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	9.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Moline is 16.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.7% 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Moline, Illinois.

Is commuting expensive in Moline, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 139 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,311 at a typical national wage. That's 29% less than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Moline, Illinois?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Moline, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.7% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.