Hayes County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hayes County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hayes County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hayes County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,126 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)
Hayes County	20.6 min	41.1 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,314	252
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 20.6 minutes to get to work in Hayes County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% 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 6.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hayes County

• Car: 86.6%
• Worked at Home: 6.0%
• Walked: 4.1%
• Other: 3.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hayes County: 68823361.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hayes County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hayes 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
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.2%	21.4%	9.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	70.3%	19.0%	10.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	67.8%	21.1%	11.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	71.0%	16.6%	12.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	76.2%	14.5%	8.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	76.3%	15.2%	7.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	74.7%	16.0%	8.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	79.1%	14.5%	5.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.2%	9.0%	3.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	85.8%	8.7%	4.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	83.9%	11.7%	4.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	81.2%	14.4%	4.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.5%	14.4%	5.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.5%	16.4%	5.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.8%	16.7%	5.7%	3.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.6%	6.0%	4.1%	3.1%	0.2%	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 bottomed out in 2011 at 67.8%. Overall it rose from 69.2% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, up 17.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 21.4% to 6.0% of workers (down 15.4 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 12.4% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 4.1%.

Commute Start Times in Hayes County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hayes County?

The bars show when commuters in Hayes 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 Hayes County4.6% Nebraska4.3%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hayes County2.8% Nebraska3.2%	2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hayes County5.3% Nebraska5.1%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hayes County8.1% Nebraska7.7%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hayes County4.6% Nebraska10.5%	4.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hayes County24.9% Nebraska15.5%	24.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hayes County24.1% Nebraska16.7%	24.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hayes County18.5% Nebraska10.5%	18.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hayes County1.8% Nebraska4.4%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hayes County2.0% Nebraska4.8%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hayes County0.0% Nebraska2.4%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hayes County0.5% Nebraska1.4%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hayes County2.0% Nebraska7.1%	2.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hayes County0.8% Nebraska6.5%	0.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hayes County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are about as common as in Nebraska: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 72.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 19 commuters (5.3%) 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 Hayes 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 Hayes 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 Hayes 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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• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hayes County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hayes County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Nebraska followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hayes County now leave 8 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 Hayes County has moved 19 minutes later.

How does Hayes County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hayes County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 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	6.0%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hayes County is 20.6 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau