Brown County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brown County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brown County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 68 hours, about 2.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Brown County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brown County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $846 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)
Brown County	8.2 min	16.4 min	68 hrs/yr	$2,116	98
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 8.2 minutes to get to work in Brown County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brown County

• Car: 83.9%
• Worked at Home: 8.6%
• Walked: 7.0%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Brown County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brown 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
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	86.9%	7.3%	4.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	81.9%	8.3%	8.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	80.6%	9.4%	8.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	82.9%	7.5%	9.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	79.5%	9.1%	10.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	81.7%	10.0%	7.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2015	81.6%	9.9%	7.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2016	81.7%	8.5%	9.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2017	81.2%	8.4%	8.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2018	84.2%	6.7%	7.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2019	83.8%	7.3%	7.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2020	81.7%	9.7%	7.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2021	84.7%	8.7%	4.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2022	88.4%	7.4%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.3%	7.7%	4.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	8.6%	7.0%	0.5%	0.0%	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 2022 at 88.4% and lowest in 2013 at 79.5%. Overall it fell from 86.9% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Brown County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 10.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 7.0%.

Commute Start Times in Brown County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brown County?

The bars show when commuters in Brown 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 Brown County6.5% Nebraska4.3%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brown County2.4% Nebraska3.2%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brown County1.0% Nebraska5.1%	1.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brown County5.8% Nebraska7.7%	5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brown County18.2% Nebraska10.5%	18.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brown County11.5% Nebraska15.5%	11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brown County16.3% Nebraska16.7%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brown County16.9% Nebraska10.5%	16.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brown County4.0% Nebraska4.4%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brown County1.9% Nebraska4.8%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brown County2.0% Nebraska2.4%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brown County2.5% Nebraska1.4%	2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brown County6.0% Nebraska7.1%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brown County5.1% Nebraska6.5%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brown County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 9.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 62.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Brown 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 Brown 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 Brown 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.

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• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brown County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brown County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Brown County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Brown County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Brown County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brown County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.2 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	8.6%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	7.0%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brown County is 8.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 7.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau