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Nemaha County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Nemaha County, Kansas: 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 Nemaha County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Nemaha County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Nemaha County holds about 0.3% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Nemaha County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,209 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)
Nemaha County 11.7 min 23.4 min 98 hrs/yr $3,023 214
Kansas 17.2 min 34.4 min 143 hrs/yr $4,448 662
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: Kansas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Wichita County (7.0 min)
  2. Scott County (7.1 min)
  3. Greeley County (7.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Linn County (31.3 min)
  2. Miami County (30.8 min)
  3. Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Nemaha County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Nemaha County. That's 48% 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 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Nemaha County

  • Car: 90.0%
  • Worked at Home: 5.5%
  • Walked: 3.7%
  • Other: 0.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Nemaha County: 19602031438.4 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Nemaha County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Nemaha County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Nemaha 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 88.6% 6.2% 2.9% 0.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2010 84.7% 7.9% 4.8% 1.1% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4%
2011 83.0% 8.8% 5.4% 1.3% 0.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 85.2% 6.1% 5.8% 1.4% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 84.1% 6.4% 7.3% 1.2% 0.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 84.9% 6.3% 6.8% 0.7% 0.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 87.5% 5.1% 6.0% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 87.1% 4.2% 7.3% 0.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 88.1% 4.6% 6.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 88.2% 4.9% 5.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 89.0% 4.7% 5.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 89.8% 4.6% 4.5% 0.3% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 91.2% 5.1% 2.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 89.6% 5.0% 4.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.2% 4.4% 3.3% 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.0% 5.5% 3.7% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 91.2% and lowest in 2011 at 83.0%. Overall it rose from 88.6% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Nemaha County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 7.3% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 3.7%.

Commute Start Times in Nemaha County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Nemaha County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM
5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
28.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.4%

Nemaha County Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Nemaha County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 28.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 11.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 68.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.2%) 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 Nemaha 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 Nemaha 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 Nemaha County next to Kansas 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 Nemaha County Kansas United States
2009 7:32 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:22 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Nemaha County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Nemaha County now leave 4 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 Nemaha County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Nemaha County's commute time compare?

Metric Nemaha County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 11.7 min 17.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.5% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 3.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Nemaha County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Nemaha County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Nemaha County, KS is typical in size for this group, 10,160 residents against a local median of 9,343, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Nemaha County, KS's work from home, at 5.5%, runs 22% below the 7.1% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 7.3% on work from home, so Nemaha County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Nemaha County, KS has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Nemaha County, KS 10,160 11.7 min #1/6 5.5% #6/6 7:33 AM #5/6
Pawnee County, NE 2,530 13.7 min 13.1% 7:30 AM
Jackson County, KS 13,341 22.1 min 7.4% 7:13 AM
Brown County, KS 9,343 13.4 min 7.1% 7:31 AM
Richardson County, NE 7,751 15.3 min 6.5% 7:38 AM
Marshall County, KS 9,993 11.8 min 5.8% 7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Nemaha County, Kansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Nemaha County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 98 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,023 at a typical national wage. That's 32% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Nemaha County, Kansas?

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

How common is public transit use in Nemaha County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Kansas?

Among counties in Kansas, the shortest average commutes are in Wichita County (7.0 min), Scott County (7.1 min), Greeley County (7.2 min). The longest are in Linn County (31.3 min), Miami County (30.8 min), Jefferson County (30.3 min).