Tinley Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Tinley Park, 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 Tinley Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tinley Park spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 8.0 minutes.

Tinley Park holds about 0.4% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tinley Park would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,264 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)
Tinley Park	31.6 min	63.2 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,159	4,520
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.

Tinley Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.6 minutes to get to work in Tinley Park. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tinley Park

Walking is unusually rare in Tinley Park: 5.0 times less than the Illinois average (0.6% vs 2.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Tinley Park: just 0.8%, 4.0 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Tinley Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tinley Park 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	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.7%	2.4%	7.7%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	87.2%	2.5%	8.1%	0.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.4%	2.6%	8.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	86.9%	2.4%	9.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	87.3%	2.1%	9.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	87.3%	2.6%	8.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.7%	3.2%	8.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.3%	3.4%	8.0%	0.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.9%	3.7%	7.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	85.3%	4.3%	8.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	85.9%	3.7%	8.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.7%	5.0%	8.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.2%	7.2%	6.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.1%	8.5%	6.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.3%	9.6%	4.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	81.6%	12.3%	3.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 87.7% in 2009 to 81.6% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tinley Park: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.7% to 3.9% of workers (down 3.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Tinley Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tinley Park?

The bars show when commuters in Tinley Park 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		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tinley Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Tinley Park, 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 Tinley Park 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 Tinley Park 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	Tinley Park	Illinois	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tinley Park were on the road by 7:30 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Illinois followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Tinley Park now leave 8 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 Tinley Park has moved 4 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Tinley Park in the whole series.

How does Tinley Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Tinley Park	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.9%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tinley Park is 31.6 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

3.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Tinley Park, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Tinley Park, IL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Tinley Park, IL	46,109	31.6 min #2/3	12.3% #2/3	7:30 AM #2/3
Oak Forest, IL	21,393	29.0 min	9.5%	7:18 AM
Orland Park, IL	51,782	32.2 min	16.6%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Tinley Park, Illinois.

Is living in Tinley Park, Illinois good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 263 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,159 at a typical national wage. That's 34% more than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Tinley Park, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Tinley Park, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.