Vernon Hills Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Vernon Hills: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vernon Hills spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 209 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Vernon Hills holds about 0.2% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Vernon Hills would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,593 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)
Vernon Hills	25.1 min	50.2 min	209 hrs/yr	$6,482	3,523
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.

Vernon Hills Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.1 minutes to get to work in Vernon Hills. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 30.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Vernon Hills

• Car: 65.5%
• Worked at Home: 30.1%
• Public Transportation: 2.6%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.8% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Vernon Hills: 3.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.8% vs 2.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Vernon Hills: 4.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Vernon Hills: 829.7 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Vernon Hills: just 0.8%, 4.4 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Vernon Hills, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Vernon Hills 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
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.3%	5.1%	3.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	88.5%	5.2%	3.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.7%
2011	86.8%	5.6%	4.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2012	86.6%	6.7%	4.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2013	87.8%	6.1%	4.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	88.3%	5.3%	4.1%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	88.5%	5.3%	4.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.6%	5.6%	4.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.8%	5.8%	4.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	87.2%	5.7%	5.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	86.8%	6.1%	5.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	79.0%	13.8%	4.8%	0.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	73.9%	19.5%	4.3%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	71.8%	22.1%	3.7%	0.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	68.0%	26.5%	2.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	65.5%	30.1%	2.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.3% in 2009 to 65.5% in 2024, down 23.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Vernon Hills: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 30.1% in 2024, up 25.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 24.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 2.6% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Vernon Hills

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vernon Hills?

The bars show when commuters in Vernon Hills 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 Vernon Hills3.0% Illinois5.6%	3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Vernon Hills0.8% Illinois4.3%	0.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Vernon Hills3.9% Illinois4.9%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Vernon Hills6.6% Illinois9.0%	6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Vernon Hills9.5% Illinois9.4%	9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Vernon Hills15.2% Illinois14.3%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Vernon Hills13.7% Illinois11.6%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Vernon Hills16.7% Illinois11.2%	16.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Vernon Hills8.7% Illinois5.2%	8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Vernon Hills6.8% Illinois6.1%	6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Vernon Hills5.7% Illinois2.9%	5.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Vernon Hills1.5% Illinois1.5%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Vernon Hills3.7% Illinois7.7%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Vernon Hills4.1% Illinois6.3%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Vernon Hills is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across Illinois. Early starts are less common than in Illinois: 7.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 55.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Vernon Hills, 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 Vernon Hills 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 Vernon Hills 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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• Illinois
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Vernon Hills	Illinois	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:54 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:54 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Vernon Hills were on the road by 7:54 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Illinois, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Vernon Hills now leave 16 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Vernon Hills has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Vernon Hills's commute time compare?

Metric	Vernon Hills	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.1 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	30.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.6%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Vernon Hills is 25.1 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

2.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau