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Dixon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Dixon 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 Dixon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dixon County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

Dixon 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 Dixon County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,305 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)
Dixon County 22.3 min 44.6 min 186 hrs/yr $5,763 408
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

Dixon County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Dixon County. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% 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 9.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dixon County

  • Car: 85.7%
  • Worked at Home: 9.3%
  • Walked: 2.8%
  • Other: 1.6%
  • Motorcycle: 0.6% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Dixon County: 6.6 times more than the Nebraska average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Dixon County: 333935002.8 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Dixon County, versus 0.3% in Nebraska.

Commute Mode Trends in Dixon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dixon 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 Worked at Home Walked Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 85.0% 8.2% 5.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4%
2010 84.3% 9.1% 5.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4%
2011 86.2% 8.2% 4.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 86.5% 7.4% 5.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 85.9% 8.2% 5.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 88.1% 6.2% 5.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.8% 5.2% 4.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 89.3% 5.1% 5.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 90.1% 4.9% 4.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 89.3% 6.1% 4.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 87.2% 5.3% 7.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 87.3% 6.1% 5.5% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 85.8% 7.3% 5.9% 0.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 85.9% 7.2% 6.1% 0.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 85.4% 8.7% 4.9% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.7% 9.3% 2.8% 1.6% 0.6% 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 2017 at 90.1% and lowest in 2010 at 84.3%. Overall it rose from 85.0% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dixon County: its share of workers rose from 8.2% in 2009 to 9.3% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 2.8% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Dixon County

  • Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Nebraska's 93 counties: 26.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dixon County?

The bars show when commuters in Dixon 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
9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
19.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dixon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 26.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Dixon 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 Dixon 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 Dixon 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 Dixon County Nebraska United States
2009 7:13 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:16 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:14 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:16 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:15 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:17 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:24 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:19 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:20 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:15 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:14 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:16 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:18 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:17 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:14 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dixon County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Dixon County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Dixon County's commute time compare?

Metric Dixon County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.3 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 9.3% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.8% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Dixon County is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dixon County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Dixon County, NE is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,545 residents against a local median of 15,219. The measure that sets Dixon County, NE apart most is one-way commute: 22.3 min, 71% above the local median of 13.1 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 9.3% against a local median of 7.9%, 17% above it. The counties themselves sit within 5.7 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Dixon County, NE, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Dixon County, NE has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Dixon County, NE 5,545 22.3 min #6/6 9.3% #3/6 7:14 AM #1/6
Dakota County, NE 21,354 13.1 min 4.9% 7:23 AM
Wayne County, NE 9,844 10.7 min 14.0% 7:30 AM
Cedar County, NE 8,315 14.0 min 10.1% 7:24 AM
Union County, SD 17,081 16.4 min 7.9% 7:31 AM
Clay County, SD 15,219 11.1 min 6.6% 7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dixon County, Nebraska.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Dixon County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,763 at a typical national wage. That's 31% more than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Dixon County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Dixon 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Dixon 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).