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Gage County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Gage 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 Gage County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gage County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Gage County holds about 1.1% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gage County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,577 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)
Gage County 15.3 min 30.5 min 127 hrs/yr $3,942 351
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

Gage County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.3 minutes to get to work in Gage County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gage County

  • Car: 91.3%
  • Worked at Home: 5.5%
  • Walked: 2.3%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Gage County: 8245795263.3 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Gage County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gage 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 90.7% 6.4% 1.5% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2010 90.7% 5.8% 2.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2011 91.5% 5.1% 2.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2012 92.0% 4.8% 2.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 92.8% 4.2% 2.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 92.4% 4.8% 2.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 91.3% 5.3% 2.7% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 91.4% 5.0% 2.7% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 91.1% 4.8% 3.1% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 89.9% 6.0% 3.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 88.7% 6.4% 3.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2020 89.8% 5.3% 3.9% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 88.8% 6.5% 4.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 90.3% 7.0% 2.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 90.9% 6.0% 2.2% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.3% 5.5% 2.3% 0.7% 0.1% 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 2013 at 92.8% and lowest in 2019 at 88.7%. Overall it rose from 90.7% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Gage County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 2.3% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.4% to 5.5% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 4.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Gage County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Nebraska's 93 counties: the typical start is 22 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gage County?

The bars show when commuters in Gage 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
6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gage County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 18.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.4%) 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 Gage 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 Gage 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 Gage 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 Gage County Nebraska United States
2009 7:35 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:34 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:30 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:27 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:28 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:24 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:20 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:13 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gage County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Gage County now leave 25 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 Gage County has moved 18 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Gage County in the whole series.

How does Gage County's commute time compare?

Metric Gage County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.3 min 17.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 5.5% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.3% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Gage County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Gage County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Gage County, NE is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,629 residents against a local median of 7,161. Nothing separates Gage County, NE sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 11% above the local median at 15.3 min against 13.7 min. Gage County, NE has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Gage County, NE 21,629 15.3 min #4/6 5.5% #4/6 7:13 AM #1/6
Johnson County, NE 5,261 18.8 min 9.4% 7:26 AM
Jefferson County, NE 7,161 11.2 min 4.7% 7:23 AM
Pawnee County, NE 2,530 13.7 min 13.1% 7:30 AM
Marshall County, KS 9,993 11.8 min 5.8% 7:31 AM
Saline County, NE 14,650 15.6 min 4.6% 7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gage County, Nebraska.

Is commuting expensive in Gage County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,942 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Gage County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Gage 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 Gage 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).