Warren County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Warren County, 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 Warren County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Warren County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 10.0 minutes.

Warren County holds about 0.1% of Illinois's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Warren County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,409 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)
Warren County	13.6 min	27.3 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,522	407
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Illinois

Edgar County (12.0 min)
Brown County (12.7 min)
Morgan County (13.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Illinois

Calhoun County (43.8 min)
Pulaski County (31.2 min)
Pope County (31.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Warren County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.6 minutes to get to work in Warren County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 93% of counties in Illinois

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Warren County

Public transit is unusually rare in Warren County: 8.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.7% vs 5.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Warren County: 5.8 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Warren County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Warren 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.

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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	86.4%	5.0%	6.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	86.6%	4.8%	7.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	87.1%	4.8%	6.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2012	86.9%	5.2%	5.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.4%
2013	86.8%	5.8%	5.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2014	87.8%	5.1%	5.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%
2015	87.2%	5.7%	5.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%
2016	86.7%	5.6%	5.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%
2017	87.7%	4.9%	4.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%
2018	87.6%	5.0%	4.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2019	88.6%	4.8%	4.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2020	87.4%	6.0%	3.4%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2021	87.5%	6.1%	3.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	87.6%	6.7%	3.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	89.1%	5.5%	4.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.1%	7.4%	4.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2023 at 89.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 86.4% in 2009 and 86.1% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Warren County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 7.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.8% to 4.6% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Warren County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Warren County?

The bars show when commuters in Warren 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Warren County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Illinois. Early starts are more common than in Illinois: 16.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Illinois's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Warren County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Warren County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Warren County now leave 11 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 Warren County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Warren County's commute time compare?

Metric	Warren County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	4.6%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Warren County is 13.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 4.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Warren County, IL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Warren County, IL is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,447 residents against a local median of 26,917. Warren County, IL's work from home, at 7.4%, runs 29% above the 5.7% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 13.6 min against a local median of 18.8 min, 27% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 27% below the local median it puts Warren County, IL at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.9% on work from home, so Warren County, IL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Warren County, IL has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Warren County, IL	16,447	13.6 min #2/6	7.4% #2/6	7:26 AM #4/6
Henderson County, IL	6,193	23.5 min	4.2%	7:15 AM
Mercer County, IL	15,495	26.5 min	10.1%	7:03 AM
McDonough County, IL	26,917	13.1 min	6.9%	7:41 AM
Knox County, IL	49,044	14.0 min	5.7%	7:29 AM
Fulton County, IL	33,018	18.8 min	5.1%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Warren County, Illinois.

Is living in Warren County, Illinois good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 114 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,522 at a typical national wage. That's 42% less than the typical Illinois commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Warren County, Illinois?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Warren County, Illinois. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Warren County, Illinois?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 5.8% in Illinois, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Illinois?

Among counties in Illinois, the shortest average commutes are in Edgar County (12.0 min), Brown County (12.7 min), Morgan County (13.1 min). The longest are in Calhoun County (43.8 min), Pulaski County (31.2 min), Pope County (31.0 min).