Dodge County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dodge County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dodge County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Dodge County holds about 1.9% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dodge County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,409 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)
Dodge County	13.6 min	27.3 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,523	944
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 13.6 minutes to get to work in Dodge County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dodge County

• Car: 92.2%
• Worked at Home: 4.1%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.4%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Dodge County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dodge 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
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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	91.9%	3.9%	3.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	92.7%	3.5%	3.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	3.7%	3.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.8%	3.7%	3.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.0%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	2.9%	3.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.2%	3.3%	3.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	2.6%	2.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	2.5%	2.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	2.5%	2.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.1%	2.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.7%	2.8%	1.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.9%	3.4%	1.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	3.6%	1.7%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	3.6%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.2%	4.1%	1.5%	1.4%	0.5%	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 was highest in 2019 at 94.1% and lowest in 2012 at 91.8%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.9% in 2009 and 92.2% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Dodge County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dodge County?

The bars show when commuters in Dodge 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 Dodge County6.7% Nebraska4.3%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dodge County7.4% Nebraska3.2%	7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dodge County5.4% Nebraska5.1%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dodge County9.2% Nebraska7.7%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dodge County10.7% Nebraska10.5%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dodge County12.0% Nebraska15.5%	12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dodge County13.6% Nebraska16.7%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dodge County7.8% Nebraska10.5%	7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dodge County4.6% Nebraska4.4%	4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dodge County5.2% Nebraska4.8%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dodge County2.3% Nebraska2.4%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dodge County1.0% Nebraska1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dodge County7.2% Nebraska7.1%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dodge County6.8% Nebraska6.5%	6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dodge County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 44.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Dodge 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 Dodge 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 Dodge 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dodge County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dodge County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Dodge County now leave 12 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Dodge County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Dodge County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dodge County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dodge County is 13.6 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau