Cherry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cherry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cherry 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 67 hours, about 2.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 53% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Cherry County holds about 0.3% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cherry County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $826 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)
Cherry County	8.0 min	16.0 min	67 hrs/yr	$2,065	38
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 8.0 minutes to get to work in Cherry County. That's 64% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 walking. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cherry County

• Car: 77.8%
• Walked: 9.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Other: 3.9%
• Motorcycle: 1.5% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Cherry County: 16.3 times more than the Nebraska average (1.5% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Cherry County: 3.9 times more than the Nebraska average (9.1% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Cherry County: 6.6 times less than the Nebraska average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Cherry County stands out for active commuting: 9.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.5 times the Nebraska average of 2.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cherry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cherry 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
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• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	75.2%	10.4%	11.9%	0.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	73.5%	11.8%	13.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	73.3%	12.5%	13.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	72.9%	8.3%	17.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	75.6%	6.9%	16.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	73.8%	7.0%	17.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	74.0%	3.9%	20.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	70.9%	5.9%	21.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	70.0%	6.1%	22.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	74.9%	7.3%	16.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	75.2%	6.1%	17.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	74.8%	8.4%	13.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%
2021	78.7%	5.9%	12.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2022	78.2%	7.1%	11.1%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	77.7%	6.8%	10.1%	3.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	77.8%	9.1%	7.3%	3.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	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 78.7% and lowest in 2017 at 70.0%. Overall it rose from 75.2% in 2009 to 77.8% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 11.9% to 7.3% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 12.5% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 9.1%.

Commute Start Times in Cherry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cherry County?

The bars show when commuters in Cherry 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 Cherry County3.5% Nebraska4.3%	3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cherry County3.4% Nebraska3.2%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cherry County2.7% Nebraska5.1%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cherry County6.8% Nebraska7.7%	6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cherry County6.9% Nebraska10.5%	6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cherry County20.3% Nebraska15.5%	20.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cherry County19.4% Nebraska16.7%	19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cherry County18.6% Nebraska10.5%	18.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cherry County5.9% Nebraska4.4%	5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cherry County5.3% Nebraska4.8%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cherry County0.6% Nebraska2.4%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cherry County0.6% Nebraska1.4%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cherry County2.3% Nebraska7.1%	2.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cherry County3.7% Nebraska6.5%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cherry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 65.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.5%) 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 Cherry 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 Cherry 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 Cherry 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cherry County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cherry County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cherry County now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Cherry County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Cherry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cherry County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.0 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	7.3%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	9.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cherry County is 8.0 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 9.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau