Boone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Boone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boone County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boone County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,312 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)
Boone County	12.7 min	25.4 min	106 hrs/yr	$3,279	246
Nebraska	17.0 min	34.0 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,390	691
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: Nebraska Counties

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On average, it takes 12.7 minutes to get to work in Boone County. That's 43% 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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Boone County

• Car: 85.7%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Other: 2.2%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Boone County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Public transit is essentially absent in Boone County, versus 0.5% in Nebraska.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Boone County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Commute Mode Trends in Boone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Boone 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
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	82.5%	12.3%	0.6%	3.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	78.5%	15.9%	0.5%	4.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	78.8%	15.6%	0.2%	4.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	80.1%	13.9%	0.2%	5.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	80.0%	13.4%	0.2%	5.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	82.4%	12.1%	0.4%	4.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	84.5%	9.8%	0.3%	4.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	82.2%	12.4%	0.5%	4.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	82.7%	12.9%	0.4%	3.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	82.6%	13.7%	0.4%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	83.1%	10.4%	0.5%	4.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.4%	10.0%	0.6%	3.8%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.2%	7.6%	2.2%	4.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.4%	8.2%	2.1%	4.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	7.5%	2.5%	4.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.7%	10.0%	2.2%	2.0%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2010 at 78.5%. Overall it rose from 82.5% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 12.3% to 10.0% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 5.6% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.0%.

Commute Start Times in Boone County

• 🌅 Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Nebraska's 93 counties: 24.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Boone County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Boone County10.0% Nebraska4.3%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Boone County5.9% Nebraska3.2%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Boone County8.7% Nebraska5.1%	8.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Boone County3.3% Nebraska7.7%	3.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Boone County11.1% Nebraska10.5%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Boone County14.6% Nebraska15.5%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Boone County25.3% Nebraska16.7%	25.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Boone County6.7% Nebraska10.5%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Boone County1.8% Nebraska4.4%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Boone County6.0% Nebraska4.8%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Boone County0.8% Nebraska2.4%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Boone County0.1% Nebraska1.4%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Boone County1.3% Nebraska7.1%	1.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Boone County4.3% Nebraska6.5%	4.3%

Boone County Nebraska Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Boone County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 25.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 24.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.6%) 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 Boone 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 Boone 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 Boone County next to Nebraska 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.

• Boone County
• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Boone County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Boone County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Boone County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Boone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boone County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.7 min	17.0 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	10.0%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Boone County is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau