Streamwood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Streamwood, Illinois: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

Updated 22 September 2026

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Commute Time Burden in Streamwood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Streamwood spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 223 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Streamwood holds about 0.3% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Streamwood would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,767 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)
Streamwood	26.8 min	53.5 min	223 hrs/yr	$6,917	6,605
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.

Streamwood Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.8 minutes to get to work in Streamwood. That's 19% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Streamwood

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Streamwood: 3.9 times less than the Illinois average (1.5% vs 5.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Streamwood: 3.5 times less than the Illinois average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Streamwood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Streamwood 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	Walked	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.6%	1.8%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	92.6%	3.0%	2.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2011	92.5%	2.9%	2.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	91.7%	3.2%	3.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	91.5%	2.9%	3.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2014	91.7%	3.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	2.4%	3.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	2.7%	2.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	2.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.1%	3.7%	2.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	92.1%	4.1%	2.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	91.2%	5.2%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	88.5%	7.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	86.6%	9.8%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	86.8%	10.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	11.8%	1.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.6% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Streamwood: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 10.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Streamwood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Streamwood?

The bars show when commuters in Streamwood 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Streamwood is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Illinois: 42.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Streamwood, 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 Streamwood 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 Streamwood 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	Streamwood	Illinois	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Streamwood were on the road by 7:19 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Streamwood now leave 19 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 Streamwood has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Streamwood in the whole series.

How does Streamwood's commute time compare?

Metric	Streamwood	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Streamwood is 26.8 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Streamwood, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Streamwood, IL is typical in size for this group, 38,420 residents against a local median of 40,642, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Streamwood, IL breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 37% below the local median of 18.7% at 11.8%.

The cities themselves spread 9.4% on work from home, so Streamwood, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Streamwood, IL has the 4th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Streamwood, IL	38,420	26.8 min #4/5	11.8% #4/5	7:18 AM #1/5
Bartlett, IL	33,124	27.1 min	19.7%	7:27 AM
Hanover Park, IL	30,659	25.2 min	10.4%	7:28 AM
Hoffman Estates, IL	48,159	25.2 min	18.2%	7:57 AM
Schaumburg, IL	78,574	24.0 min	19.2%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Streamwood, Illinois.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Streamwood, Illinois?

Commuters here spend an estimated 223 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,917 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Streamwood, Illinois?

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

How common is public transit use in Streamwood, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.5% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.