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Commuting in Colfax County, Nebraska: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Colfax County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Colfax County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Colfax County holds about 0.5% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Colfax County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,428 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)
Colfax County 13.8 min 27.6 min 115 hrs/yr $3,570 797
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Nebraska
  1. Hooker County (7.4 min)
  2. Cherry County (8.0 min)
  3. Box Butte County (8.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Nebraska
  1. Cass County (28.0 min)
  2. Banner County (27.2 min)
  3. Saunders County (26.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Colfax County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.8 minutes to get to work in Colfax County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Colfax County

  • Car: 90.2%
  • Walked: 4.9%
  • Worked at Home: 3.6% unusually low
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Colfax County: 3.1 times less than the Nebraska average (3.6% vs 11.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Colfax County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Colfax 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Walked Worked at Home Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 88.2% 4.6% 6.2% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 88.9% 4.1% 5.8% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 88.4% 4.1% 6.4% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 87.4% 5.8% 4.8% 1.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 87.6% 6.1% 4.7% 1.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 88.0% 6.2% 4.2% 1.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 86.5% 6.0% 4.2% 2.7% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 85.8% 5.0% 5.4% 3.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.6%
2017 86.1% 3.8% 6.6% 2.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2018 84.8% 4.8% 6.3% 3.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2019 86.3% 3.8% 5.4% 4.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2020 88.1% 5.8% 5.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2021 88.9% 5.6% 4.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.5% 8.0% 4.1% 0.8% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 90.7% 5.1% 2.8% 0.9% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.2% 4.9% 3.6% 0.8% 0.4% 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 2023 at 90.7% and lowest in 2018 at 84.8%. Overall it rose from 88.2% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.2% to 3.6% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 8.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 4.9%.

Commute Start Times in Colfax County

  • Sleeping InThe highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Nebraska's 93 counties: 30.3% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.
  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 2nd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Nebraska's 93 counties: only 43.1% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
  • Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among Nebraska's 93 counties: the typical start is 26 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Colfax County?

The bars show when commuters in Colfax 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
7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
14.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Colfax County is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.1% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.3%) 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 Colfax 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 Colfax 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 Colfax 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Colfax County Nebraska United States
2009 7:18 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:28 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:30 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:36 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:40 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:47 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:43 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Colfax County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 26 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Colfax County now leave 5 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 Colfax County has moved 22 minutes later.

How does Colfax County's commute time compare?

Metric Colfax County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 13.8 min 17.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM 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 3.6% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 4.9% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Colfax County is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Colfax County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Colfax County, NE is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,641 residents against a local median of 8,975. Where Colfax County, NE breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 51% below the local median of 7.3% at 3.6%.

The counties themselves spread 4.6% on work from home, so Colfax County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Colfax County, NE has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Colfax County, NE 10,641 13.8 min #4/6 3.6% #6/6 7:43 AM #6/6
Butler County, NE 8,424 22.3 min 8.7% 7:21 AM
Stanton County, NE 5,796 18.7 min 7.7% 7:23 AM
Dodge County, NE 37,351 13.6 min 4.1% 7:26 AM
Platte County, NE 34,716 12.3 min 5.3% 7:38 AM
Cuming County, NE 8,975 12.2 min 7.3% 7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Colfax County, Nebraska.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Colfax County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 115 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,570 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Colfax County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Colfax County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Colfax County, Nebraska?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in Nebraska, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Nebraska?

Among counties in Nebraska, the shortest average commutes are in Hooker County (7.4 min), Cherry County (8.0 min), Box Butte County (8.0 min). The longest are in Cass County (28.0 min), Banner County (27.2 min), Saunders County (26.9 min).