Garden County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Garden County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garden County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 68 hours, about 2.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Garden County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Garden County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $843 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)
Garden County	8.2 min	16.3 min	68 hrs/yr	$2,107	212
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 8.2 minutes to get to work in Garden County. That's 64% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster 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 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garden County

• Car: 83.9%
• Worked at Home: 7.8%
• Walked: 5.1%
• Other: 3.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Garden County: 3931058.5 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Garden County: 18059021.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Garden County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garden 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	74.6%	14.3%	9.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	75.5%	15.5%	7.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	73.8%	15.5%	8.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	80.5%	11.3%	5.4%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	81.3%	11.0%	4.1%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	83.8%	9.2%	6.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	86.0%	7.1%	6.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	85.7%	6.2%	6.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	80.5%	13.7%	4.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	77.4%	15.3%	6.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	72.6%	20.0%	6.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	74.7%	18.0%	5.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	70.2%	21.2%	5.6%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	73.6%	15.7%	6.8%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.0%	16.6%	7.2%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	7.8%	5.1%	3.2%	0.0%	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 2015 at 86.0% and lowest in 2021 at 70.2%. Overall it rose from 74.6% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 14.3% to 7.8% of workers (down 6.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Garden County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garden County?

The bars show when commuters in Garden 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 Garden County7.4% Nebraska4.3%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Garden County5.7% Nebraska3.2%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Garden County4.2% Nebraska5.1%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Garden County12.2% Nebraska7.7%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Garden County7.8% Nebraska10.5%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Garden County25.4% Nebraska15.5%	25.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Garden County17.4% Nebraska16.7%	17.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Garden County10.7% Nebraska10.5%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Garden County2.6% Nebraska4.4%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Garden County2.1% Nebraska4.8%	2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Garden County0.3% Nebraska2.4%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Garden County0.3% Nebraska1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Garden County3.9% Nebraska7.1%	3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Garden County0.0% Nebraska6.5%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garden County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% 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 concentrated than in Nebraska: 61.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 15 commuters (6.6%) 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 Garden 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 Garden 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 Garden 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.

• Garden County
• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Garden County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garden County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 17 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 Garden County now leave 23 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 Garden County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Garden County's commute time compare?

Metric	Garden County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.2 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	7.8%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garden County is 8.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau