Burt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Burt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burt County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Burt County holds about 0.3% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Burt County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,870 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)
Burt County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,674	606
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 18.1 minutes to get to work in Burt County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burt County

• Car: 83.0%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Walked: 3.3%
• Other: 1.2%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Burt County: 2654036979.5 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Burt County: 123417227.9 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Burt County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	86.6%	5.0%	7.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2010	86.2%	6.4%	6.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	85.8%	6.8%	6.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	86.8%	6.3%	6.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	87.0%	8.0%	4.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.0%	7.8%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.6%	6.5%	3.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.8%	7.1%	3.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	89.7%	6.1%	3.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.9%	4.7%	3.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.2%	4.5%	2.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	89.5%	6.8%	2.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.7%	7.6%	2.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	86.8%	8.9%	3.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	11.6%	3.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.0%	12.0%	3.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 86.6% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burt County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 7.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.3% to 3.3% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Burt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burt County?

The bars show when commuters in Burt 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 Burt County4.3% Nebraska4.3%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Burt County6.3% Nebraska3.2%	6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Burt County7.6% Nebraska5.1%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Burt County10.2% Nebraska7.7%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Burt County10.4% Nebraska10.5%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Burt County18.6% Nebraska15.5%	18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Burt County17.9% Nebraska16.7%	17.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Burt County7.4% Nebraska10.5%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Burt County3.1% Nebraska4.4%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Burt County3.5% Nebraska4.8%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Burt County1.1% Nebraska2.4%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Burt County0.4% Nebraska1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Burt County6.1% Nebraska7.1%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Burt County3.1% Nebraska6.5%	3.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Nebraska's: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.2%) 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 Burt 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 Burt 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 Burt 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.

• Burt County
• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Burt County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burt County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Burt County now leave 20 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Burt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Burt County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.0%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Burt County is 18.1 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau