Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · IL · GEOID 17202922024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Dolton, Illinois
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 30.7 min one way; 11.0% worked from home, 68.1% drove alone, and 10.2% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip30.7 min±4.7 min MOE
Worked from home11.0%±2.9 pp MOE
Drove alone68.1%±7.5 pp MOE
60+ minute trip10.2%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Dolton village's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -7.7 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +2.4 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Dolton village residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 68.1%; 8.1% used public transit and 11.0% worked from home.
Each share uses 7,962 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Dolton village compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 79th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 79% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 53% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 95% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 71% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Dolton village's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 7,962 workers age 16+, including 7,083 workers with reported travel time and 879 home workers.
Population estimate20,825± 56 MOE
Workers age 16+7,962± 739 MOE
Workers with travel time7,083± 713 MOE
Estimated home workers879± 247 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Illinois reports →Comparable Illinois commute records for Dolton village
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.