Williamson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Williamson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Williamson County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Illinois average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Williamson County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,914 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)
Williamson County	18.5 min	37.1 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,786	1,162
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.

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On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Williamson County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Williamson County

• Car: 89.3% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Williamson County: 6.1 times more than the Illinois average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 21% more common in Williamson County than the Illinois average (89.3% vs 73.7%).

Walking is unusually rare in Williamson County: 6.1 times less than the Illinois average (0.5% vs 2.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Williamson County: 17.6 times less than the Illinois average (0.3% vs 5.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Williamson County: 10.3 times less than the Illinois average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Williamson County: 5.2 times less than the Illinois average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Williamson County: just 0.6%, 5.9 times below the Illinois average of 3.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Williamson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Williamson 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.6%	2.2%	0.3%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	95.0%	2.0%	0.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	95.5%	1.8%	0.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	95.2%	2.1%	0.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	95.6%	2.0%	0.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	94.4%	2.8%	0.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	2.8%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	93.0%	3.5%	0.7%	1.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	4.1%	0.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.0%	4.0%	0.6%	2.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	3.7%	0.5%	2.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%
2020	90.4%	5.5%	0.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
2021	90.7%	6.2%	0.4%	1.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2022	89.6%	7.1%	0.5%	1.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%
2023	89.1%	8.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	89.3%	8.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2013 at 95.6% and lowest in 2023 at 89.1%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 89.3% in 2024, down 5.3 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Williamson County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Williamson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Williamson County?

The bars show when commuters in Williamson 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 Williamson County6.1% Illinois5.6%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Williamson County3.3% Illinois4.3%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Williamson County5.0% Illinois4.9%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Williamson County7.3% Illinois9.0%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Williamson County8.5% Illinois9.4%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Williamson County14.4% Illinois14.3%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Williamson County20.1% Illinois11.6%	20.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Williamson County9.0% Illinois11.2%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Williamson County5.1% Illinois5.2%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Williamson County4.1% Illinois6.1%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Williamson County2.5% Illinois2.9%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Williamson County0.9% Illinois1.5%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Williamson County6.8% Illinois7.7%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Williamson County7.1% Illinois6.3%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Williamson County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Illinois. Early starts are about as common as in Illinois: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Illinois: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Williamson 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 Williamson 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 Williamson 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Williamson County	Illinois	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Williamson County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Illinois, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Williamson County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Williamson County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Williamson County in the whole series.

How does Williamson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Williamson County	Illinois	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	8.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	5.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Williamson County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Illinois.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 5.8% in Illinois. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Illinois.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau