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Hitchcock County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Hitchcock County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hitchcock County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Hitchcock County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hitchcock County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,691 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)
Hitchcock County 16.4 min 32.7 min 136 hrs/yr $4,228 256
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

Hitchcock County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Hitchcock County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hitchcock County

  • Car: 88.5%
  • Worked at Home: 7.6%
  • Walked: 3.4%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Hitchcock County: 165187045.7 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Hitchcock County: 76176972.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hitchcock County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hitchcock 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 80.6% 7.7% 8.0% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 78.5% 8.9% 7.5% 4.9% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 84.5% 4.4% 6.7% 4.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 84.4% 5.8% 7.1% 2.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 86.6% 4.9% 7.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 87.0% 7.2% 5.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 88.2% 6.2% 5.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 84.5% 9.8% 5.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 87.6% 8.0% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 88.2% 7.2% 4.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 87.0% 8.5% 3.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 88.4% 8.5% 2.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 87.8% 8.4% 2.1% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.8% 7.6% 4.3% 1.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 87.1% 8.1% 3.8% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 88.5% 7.6% 3.4% 0.4% 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 2010 at 78.5%. Overall it rose from 80.6% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.0% to 3.4% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 9.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 7.6%.

Commute Start Times in Hitchcock County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hitchcock County?

The bars show when commuters in Hitchcock 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
4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
23.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
20.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hitchcock County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 7.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 69.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.8%) 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 Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock 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 Hitchcock County Nebraska United States
2009 7:42 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:39 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:41 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:43 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:38 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:45 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:44 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:41 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:34 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:28 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hitchcock County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hitchcock County now leave 9 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 Hitchcock County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hitchcock County in the whole series.

How does Hitchcock County's commute time compare?

Metric Hitchcock County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.4 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 7.6% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.4% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Hitchcock County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hitchcock County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hitchcock County, NE is typical in size for this group, 2,569 residents against a local median of 2,516, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Hitchcock County, NE's one-way commute, at 16.4 min, runs 56% above the 10.5 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 12.1 min on one-way commute, so Hitchcock County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hitchcock County, NE has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Hitchcock County, NE 2,569 16.4 min #5/6 7.6% #4/6 7:28 AM #2/6
Hayes County, NE 843 20.6 min 6.0% 7:30 AM
Rawlins County, KS 2,516 8.4 min 13.4% 7:48 AM
Red Willow County, NE 10,557 8.5 min 4.7% 7:45 AM
Dundy County, NE 1,736 10.5 min 8.2% 7:12 AM
Decatur County, KS 2,726 10.8 min 15.3% 7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hitchcock County, Nebraska.

Is commuting expensive in Hitchcock County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 136 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,228 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hitchcock 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.

Do people use public transit in Hitchcock 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.

Which counties in Nebraska have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).