Dawson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dawson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dawson County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 27% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Dawson County holds about 1.2% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dawson County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,284 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)
Dawson County	12.4 min	24.9 min	104 hrs/yr	$3,211	342
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 12.4 minutes to get to work in Dawson County. That's 45% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Other . About 1.9% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 93.5%
• Other: 1.9%
• Worked at Home: 1.9% unusually low
• Walked: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Dawson County: 5.3 times less than the Nebraska average (1.9% vs 10.0%).

How does Dawson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dawson County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.9%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	1.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Dawson County is 12.4 minutes, shorter than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau