Montgomery Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Montgomery: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Montgomery holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montgomery would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,123 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)
Montgomery	30.2 min	60.4 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,808	3,847
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.

Montgomery Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Montgomery. That's 35% longer 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 13.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery

• Car: 84.3%
• Worked at Home: 13.5%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.6% unusually low
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Montgomery: 10.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.6% vs 5.8%).

Walking is unusually rare in Montgomery: 5.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.5% vs 2.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Montgomery: 1537.4 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Montgomery: 3.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Montgomery: just 0.7%, 4.7 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.5%	2.4%	0.8%	2.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	2.4%	0.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	2.9%	0.8%	2.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	3.8%	0.9%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.4%	0.2%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.3%	3.7%	0.4%	2.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	91.5%	3.8%	0.4%	2.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.6%	3.8%	0.5%	2.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.9%	4.0%	1.0%	2.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.9%	4.2%	1.0%	2.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.0%	4.5%	0.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.9%	6.1%	0.9%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.1%	8.2%	0.9%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.9%	9.9%	0.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	11.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.3%	13.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2013 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 9.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montgomery: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 13.5% in 2024, up 11.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Montgomery

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery 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 Montgomery6.6% Illinois5.6%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Montgomery4.9% Illinois4.3%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Montgomery6.8% Illinois4.9%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Montgomery7.6% Illinois9.0%	7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Montgomery14.0% Illinois9.4%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Montgomery16.4% Illinois14.3%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Montgomery8.9% Illinois11.6%	8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Montgomery10.0% Illinois11.2%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Montgomery2.5% Illinois5.2%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Montgomery4.1% Illinois6.1%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Montgomery2.7% Illinois2.9%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Montgomery3.3% Illinois1.5%	3.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Montgomery5.8% Illinois7.7%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Montgomery6.4% Illinois6.3%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Montgomery, 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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.

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• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Montgomery	Illinois	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery were on the road by 7:18 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Montgomery now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Montgomery's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	13.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.6% 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