Holt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Holt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Holt County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 96 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Holt County holds about 0.5% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Holt County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,192 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)
Holt County	11.5 min	23.1 min	96 hrs/yr	$2,979	188
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 11.5 minutes to get to work in Holt County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% 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 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Holt County

• Car: 86.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.4%
• Walked: 4.3%
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Holt County: 1540836308.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Holt County: 11.6 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Holt County: 1920797078.4 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Holt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Holt 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.2%	13.3%	4.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2010	79.2%	13.0%	5.2%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2011	81.7%	12.0%	4.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	83.5%	11.5%	4.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	83.6%	10.8%	5.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	82.8%	11.4%	5.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	83.3%	10.5%	5.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	82.2%	11.3%	4.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	82.4%	11.1%	5.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	81.9%	12.8%	3.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	82.3%	12.7%	3.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	82.7%	12.3%	3.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	82.7%	10.8%	5.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.9%	10.7%	5.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.4%	8.1%	6.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	7.4%	4.3%	1.8%	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 79.2% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.3% to 7.4% of workers (down 5.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.0% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 4.3%.

Commute Start Times in Holt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Holt County?

The bars show when commuters in Holt 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 Holt County3.6% Nebraska4.3%	3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Holt County4.6% Nebraska3.2%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Holt County2.9% Nebraska5.1%	2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Holt County8.5% Nebraska7.7%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Holt County8.1% Nebraska10.5%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Holt County19.1% Nebraska15.5%	19.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Holt County20.1% Nebraska16.7%	20.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Holt County16.9% Nebraska10.5%	16.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Holt County2.6% Nebraska4.4%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Holt County3.3% Nebraska4.8%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Holt County2.4% Nebraska2.4%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Holt County1.9% Nebraska1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Holt County3.5% Nebraska7.1%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Holt County2.5% Nebraska6.5%	2.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Holt County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 64.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.5%) 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 Holt 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 Holt 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 Holt 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	Holt County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Holt County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 8 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 Holt County now leave 3 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 Holt County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Holt County in the whole series.

How does Holt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Holt County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.5 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	7.4%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Holt County is 11.5 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau