Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Pike 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 Pike County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,880 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)
Pike County	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,700	349
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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 19% 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 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

• Car: 91.9% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.9%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Pike County, versus 0.1% in Illinois.

Driving is 25% more common in Pike County than the Illinois average (91.9% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pike County: 31.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 5.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Pike County: 7.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.3%	4.4%	3.2%	2.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.7%	5.1%	2.7%	1.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.8%	5.1%	3.4%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	88.2%	5.4%	3.5%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.3%	4.1%	3.4%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	4.7%	3.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.2%	3.8%	3.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	91.4%	4.5%	2.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.5%	4.7%	2.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.0%	6.2%	2.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	88.6%	6.9%	2.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.2%	7.0%	2.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.1%	7.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.0%	8.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	6.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	5.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2012 at 88.2%. Overall it rose from 89.3% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 8.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.9%.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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 Pike County10.0% Illinois5.6%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pike County3.9% Illinois4.3%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pike County4.6% Illinois4.9%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pike County8.0% Illinois9.0%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pike County10.6% Illinois9.4%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pike County14.7% Illinois14.3%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pike County19.4% Illinois11.6%	19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pike County8.0% Illinois11.2%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pike County2.5% Illinois5.2%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pike County3.0% Illinois6.1%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pike County1.3% Illinois2.9%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pike County1.3% Illinois1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pike County6.0% Illinois7.7%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pike County6.6% Illinois6.3%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 52.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.2%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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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• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pike County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Pike County now leave 12 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 Pike County has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Pike County in the whole series.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	5.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau