Champaign County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Champaign County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Champaign County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Champaign County holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Champaign County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,344 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)
Champaign County	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,859	695
Ohio	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,447	1,212
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: Ohio Counties

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On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Champaign County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in Ohio

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 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Champaign County

• Car: 88.5%
• Worked at Home: 8.4%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Champaign County: 4.3 times more than the Ohio average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Champaign County: 14.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Champaign County, versus 0.2% in Ohio.

Biking is unusually rare in Champaign County: 3.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Champaign County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Champaign 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	92.4%	4.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.7%	4.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.6%	3.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.9%	3.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	2.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.3%	2.3%	1.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	2.5%	2.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	3.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	2.6%	2.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	2.6%	2.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	2.6%	2.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	4.8%	2.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	5.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	90.1%	6.9%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.4%	8.2%	2.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.5%	8.4%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2018 at 94.6% and lowest in 2023 at 88.4%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Champaign County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Champaign County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Champaign County?

The bars show when commuters in Champaign 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 Ohio for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Champaign County10.0% Ohio5.2%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Champaign County7.2% Ohio3.9%	7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Champaign County5.9% Ohio5.3%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Champaign County9.1% Ohio8.4%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Champaign County9.1% Ohio10.1%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Champaign County14.1% Ohio13.4%	14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Champaign County10.1% Ohio12.2%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Champaign County7.3% Ohio10.5%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Champaign County3.7% Ohio5.5%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Champaign County4.3% Ohio6.0%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Champaign County1.1% Ohio2.8%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Champaign County1.3% Ohio1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Champaign County8.0% Ohio7.7%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Champaign County8.7% Ohio7.8%	8.7%

Champaign County Ohio Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Champaign County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 23.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 40.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Champaign 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 Champaign 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 Champaign County next to Ohio 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.

• Champaign County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Champaign County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Champaign County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Champaign County now leave 20 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 Champaign County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Champaign County's commute time compare?

Metric	Champaign County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 min	21.1 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	8.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Champaign County is 22.7 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau