Boyd County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Boyd County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boyd County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 71 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting.

That is 50% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 8.4 minutes.

Boyd County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boyd County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $878 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)
Boyd County	8.5 min	17.0 min	71 hrs/yr	$2,196	189
Nebraska	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	691
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 8.5 minutes to get to work in Boyd County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Walked . About 8.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 78.0%
• Walked: 11.6% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Boyd County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Walked commuting is unusually common in Boyd County: 5.0 times more than the Nebraska average (11.6% vs 2.3%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Boyd County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Boyd County, versus 0.3% in Nebraska.

Boyd County stands out for active commuting: 11.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.4 times the Nebraska average of 2.6%.

How does Boyd County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boyd County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.5 min	16.9 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.5%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	11.6%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Boyd County is 8.5 minutes, shorter than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 11.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau