Round Lake Beach Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Round Lake Beach, 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 Round Lake Beach: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Round Lake Beach spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 233 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Round Lake Beach 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 Round Lake Beach would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,892 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)
Round Lake Beach	28.0 min	56.0 min	233 hrs/yr	$7,230	3,866
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.

Round Lake Beach Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.0 minutes to get to work in Round Lake Beach. That's 25% 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 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Round Lake Beach

Driving is 20% more common in Round Lake Beach than the Illinois average (88.4% vs 73.7%).

Walking is unusually rare in Round Lake Beach: 16.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 2.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Round Lake Beach: 78.3 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Round Lake Beach: just 0.2%, 13.6 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Round Lake Beach, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Round Lake Beach 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	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	92.5%	2.2%	3.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	2.2%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	1.8%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.7%	1.9%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.0%	2.6%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	3.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	3.1%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	93.7%	3.1%	2.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.6%	3.5%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	93.7%	3.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.6%	3.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.4%	3.9%	2.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	4.5%	2.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	5.3%	4.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.9%	5.6%	3.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	7.0%	3.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2012 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Round Lake Beach: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Round Lake Beach

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Round Lake Beach?

The bars show when commuters in Round Lake Beach 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		9.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

Round Lake Beach Illinois Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Round Lake Beach is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 38.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Round Lake Beach, 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 Round Lake Beach 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 Round Lake Beach 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	Round Lake Beach	Illinois	United States
2009	7:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Round Lake Beach were on the road by 7:13 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:02 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Round Lake Beach now leave 25 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 Round Lake Beach has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Round Lake Beach's commute time compare?

Metric	Round Lake Beach	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.0 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.2%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Round Lake Beach is 28.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

3.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Round Lake Beach, Illinois.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Round Lake Beach, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 233 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,230 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Round Lake Beach, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Round Lake Beach, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.