Oak Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Oak Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oak Park spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 269 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 36% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.5 minutes.

Oak Park holds about 0.4% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oak Park would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,335 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)
Oak Park 32.3 min 64.5 min 269 hrs/yr $8,338 5,309
Illinois 23.8 min 47.6 min 198 hrs/yr $6,148 1,547
United States 22.5 min 44.9 min 187 hrs/yr $5,803 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.

Oak Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.3 minutes to get to work in Oak Park. That's 44% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 27.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

  • Car: 49.4% unusually low
  • Worked at Home: 27.7%
  • Public Transportation: 16.2%
  • Walked: 4.7%
  • Bicycle: 1.2%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Taxi: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%

Car commuting in Oak Park is 34% lower than the Illinois average (49.4% vs 75.0%).

How does Oak Park's commute time compare?

Metric Oak Park Illinois US Average
Avg. Commute Time 32.3 min 23.8 min 22.5 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 27.7% 14.0% 13.4%
Walked 4.7% 2.7% 2.4%
Public Transit 16.2% 6.4% 3.5%

The average commute time in Oak Park is 32.3 minutes, longer than the 23.8 minutes in Illinois.

16.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 6.4% in Illinois. 4.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.7% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oak Park, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Oak Park, IL is typical in size for this group, 51,035 residents against a local median of 53,269, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Oak Park, IL apart most is work from home: 27.7%, 170% above the local median of 10.2%.

The cities themselves sit within 5.6% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Oak Park, IL, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Oak Park, IL has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home
Oak Park, IL 51,035 32.3 min #4/4 27.7% #1/4
Berwyn, IL 53,269 30.5 min 10.2%
Elmwood Park, IL 23,308 32.1 min 10.3%
Cicero, IL 79,082 30.0 min 4.7%

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oak Park, Illinois.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Oak Park, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 269 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,338 at a typical national wage. That's 36% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Oak Park, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Oak Park, 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.

How much money can remote workers save in Oak Park, Illinois?

About 27.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Oak Park would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,335 at the same national wage assumption used above.