Saline County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Saline County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Saline County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Saline County holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Saline County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,795 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)
Saline County	17.4 min	34.7 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,488	512
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.

Commute Time Map: Illinois Counties

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On average, it takes 17.4 minutes to get to work in Saline County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Illinois

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 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Saline County

• Car: 92.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.2% unusually low
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 26% more common in Saline County than the Illinois average (92.7% vs 73.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Saline County: 17.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 5.8%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Saline County: 3.7 times less than the Illinois average (4.2% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Saline County: 4.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Saline County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Saline 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.5%	4.0%	3.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	90.8%	4.1%	3.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	91.3%	4.2%	2.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	93.2%	3.5%	1.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	93.6%	3.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.8%	2.3%	1.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	2.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.2%	2.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	1.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	2.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	3.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	93.1%	3.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	4.2%	2.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	5.4%	2.3%	0.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	4.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.7%	4.2%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2017 at 95.9%. Overall it rose from 90.5% in 2009 to 92.7% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 5.4% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 4.2%.

Commute Start Times in Saline County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Saline County?

The bars show when commuters in Saline 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 Saline County6.6% Illinois5.6%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Saline County5.4% Illinois4.3%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Saline County7.4% Illinois4.9%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Saline County5.7% Illinois9.0%	5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Saline County9.6% Illinois9.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Saline County16.4% Illinois14.3%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Saline County18.9% Illinois11.6%	18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Saline County6.9% Illinois11.2%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Saline County2.4% Illinois5.2%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Saline County2.9% Illinois6.1%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Saline County3.0% Illinois2.9%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Saline County1.2% Illinois1.5%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Saline County7.9% Illinois7.7%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Saline County5.6% Illinois6.3%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Saline County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 51.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Saline 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 Saline 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 Saline 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	Saline County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Saline County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Saline County now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Saline County's commute time compare?

Metric	Saline County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 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	4.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Saline County is 17.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.3% 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