Vermilion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Vermilion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vermilion County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Vermilion County holds about 0.6% of Illinois's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Vermilion County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,714 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)
Vermilion County	16.6 min	33.2 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,285	742
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 16.6 minutes to get to work in Vermilion County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% 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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Vermilion County

• Car: 85.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.9%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Vermilion County: 11.3 times less than the Illinois average (0.5% vs 5.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Vermilion County: 7.7 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Vermilion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Vermilion 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.0%	3.0%	3.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	92.2%	3.0%	3.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	3.3%	3.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	91.7%	3.2%	3.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	92.9%	2.8%	2.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.7%	2.9%	2.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.7%	2.9%	2.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	92.6%	3.0%	2.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	92.5%	3.2%	2.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.8%	4.1%	2.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.1%	4.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	90.6%	5.8%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	90.1%	6.5%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	88.7%	8.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	89.1%	7.5%	2.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	9.9%	3.1%	0.5%	0.3%	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 2013 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Vermilion County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Vermilion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vermilion County?

The bars show when commuters in Vermilion 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 Vermilion County5.5% Illinois5.6%	5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Vermilion County3.5% Illinois4.3%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Vermilion County6.2% Illinois4.9%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Vermilion County9.4% Illinois9.0%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Vermilion County14.7% Illinois9.4%	14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Vermilion County15.3% Illinois14.3%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Vermilion County12.4% Illinois11.6%	12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Vermilion County7.1% Illinois11.2%	7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Vermilion County4.0% Illinois5.2%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Vermilion County3.6% Illinois6.1%	3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Vermilion County2.1% Illinois2.9%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Vermilion County1.3% Illinois1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Vermilion County7.5% Illinois7.7%	7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Vermilion County7.3% Illinois6.3%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Vermilion County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are about as common as in Illinois: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 49.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Vermilion 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 Vermilion 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 Vermilion 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.

• Vermilion County
• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Vermilion County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 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	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Vermilion County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 9 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 Vermilion County now leave 17 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 Vermilion County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Vermilion County in the whole series.

How does Vermilion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Vermilion County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Vermilion County is 16.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau