Grant County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant County spend about 20 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 84 hours, about 3.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Grant County holds about 0.0% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant County would save about 34 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,045 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)
Grant County	10.1 min	20.2 min	84 hrs/yr	$2,614	32
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

Compare commute times among different counties

N

On average, it takes 10.1 minutes to get to work in Grant County. That's 55% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Nebraska

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 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grant County

• Car: 77.1%
• Worked at Home: 14.9%
• Walked: 6.8%
• Other: 1.2%
• 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 essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Public transit is unusually rare in Grant County: 99944896.8 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant 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.

• Car
• 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	52.4%	24.2%	20.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	56.1%	23.9%	17.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	55.1%	24.6%	17.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%
2012	65.5%	18.4%	14.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2013	67.2%	14.1%	17.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2014	76.0%	9.2%	11.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	75.2%	11.6%	11.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	74.2%	10.6%	13.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	70.1%	15.7%	10.9%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	65.6%	19.7%	10.0%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	61.5%	22.7%	11.2%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	66.5%	21.5%	8.5%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	68.0%	22.2%	5.8%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	72.1%	18.9%	7.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.4%	17.4%	8.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.1%	14.9%	6.8%	1.2%	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. Overall its share rose from 52.4% in 2009 to 77.1% in 2024, up 24.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 20.7% to 6.8% of workers (down 13.9 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 1.0% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Grant County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?

The bars show when commuters in Grant 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 Grant County6.2% Nebraska4.3%	6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grant County0.4% Nebraska3.2%	0.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grant County1.5% Nebraska5.1%	1.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grant County10.2% Nebraska7.7%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grant County16.7% Nebraska10.5%	16.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grant County18.5% Nebraska15.5%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grant County24.0% Nebraska16.7%	24.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grant County6.9% Nebraska10.5%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grant County0.4% Nebraska4.4%	0.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grant County6.5% Nebraska4.8%	6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grant County0.7% Nebraska2.4%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grant County0.0% Nebraska1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grant County2.9% Nebraska7.1%	2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grant County5.1% Nebraska6.5%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 24.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 8.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 66.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.3%) 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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.

• Grant County
• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grant County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Grant County now leave 13 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 Grant County has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Grant County in the whole series.

How does Grant County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grant County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.1 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	14.9%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	6.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grant County is 10.1 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 6.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau