Piatt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Piatt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Piatt County spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 209 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Piatt 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 Piatt County would save about 83 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,588 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)
Piatt County	25.0 min	50.1 min	209 hrs/yr	$6,469	596
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.

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On average, it takes 25.0 minutes to get to work in Piatt County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% 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 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Piatt County

• Car: 90.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 23% more common in Piatt County than the Illinois average (90.2% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Piatt County: 54.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 5.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Piatt County: 4.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Piatt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Piatt 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.8%	2.7%	3.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2010	93.1%	2.7%	2.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	3.3%	3.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	3.9%	3.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	92.1%	3.9%	2.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	4.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	4.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	93.5%	3.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	3.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	4.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	4.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.1%	5.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.3%	6.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	6.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.8%	6.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	7.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2017 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Piatt County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Piatt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Piatt County?

The bars show when commuters in Piatt 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	12:00-4:59 AM Piatt County5.7% Illinois5.6%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Piatt County4.1% Illinois4.3%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Piatt County4.7% Illinois4.9%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Piatt County8.3% Illinois9.0%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Piatt County12.7% Illinois9.4%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Piatt County20.1% Illinois14.3%	20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Piatt County13.9% Illinois11.6%	13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Piatt County9.5% Illinois11.2%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Piatt County3.8% Illinois5.2%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Piatt County3.0% Illinois6.1%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Piatt County1.8% Illinois2.9%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Piatt County1.1% Illinois1.5%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Piatt County7.2% Illinois7.7%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Piatt County4.1% Illinois6.3%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Piatt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are about as common as in Illinois: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 56.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Piatt 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 Piatt 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 Piatt 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Piatt County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Piatt County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Piatt County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Piatt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Piatt County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.0 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	7.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Piatt County is 25.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau