Stark County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stark County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stark 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 210 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Stark County holds about 0.0% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stark County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,604 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)
Stark County	25.2 min	50.4 min	210 hrs/yr	$6,511	385
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 25.2 minutes to get to work in Stark County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Illinois

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 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stark County

• Car: 87.0%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Stark County: 3.2 times more than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Stark County: 20.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 5.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stark County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	83.9%	9.2%	3.5%	2.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	86.0%	7.2%	3.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	87.3%	8.2%	3.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	87.8%	8.3%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	88.8%	6.5%	3.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.0%	7.5%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	88.7%	6.3%	3.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	87.5%	7.5%	4.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	87.3%	7.9%	3.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	87.0%	9.4%	2.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	90.2%	6.4%	2.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	87.8%	8.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	90.8%	6.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	6.9%	2.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.7%	6.8%	3.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	8.0%	3.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 90.8%. Overall it rose from 83.9% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.2% to 8.0% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Stark County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stark County?

The bars show when commuters in Stark 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 Stark County6.0% Illinois5.6%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stark County3.9% Illinois4.3%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stark County9.8% Illinois4.9%	9.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stark County11.1% Illinois9.0%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stark County12.4% Illinois9.4%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stark County19.3% Illinois14.3%	19.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stark County11.5% Illinois11.6%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stark County7.8% Illinois11.2%	7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stark County2.6% Illinois5.2%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stark County4.3% Illinois6.1%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stark County1.7% Illinois2.9%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stark County1.3% Illinois1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stark County3.9% Illinois7.7%	3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stark County4.3% Illinois6.3%	4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stark County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 50.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.6%) 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 Stark 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 Stark 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 Stark 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.

• Stark County
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stark County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stark County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Stark County now leave 27 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 Stark County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Stark County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stark County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.2 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	8.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stark County is 25.2 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau