Johnson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Johnson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Johnson County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting.

That is 10% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Johnson County holds about 0.3% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Johnson County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,917 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)
Johnson County	18.5 min	37.1 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,792	218
Nebraska	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	691
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 18.5 minutes to get to work in Johnson County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 6.8% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 86.7%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Walked: 5.2%
• Bicycle: 1.0% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Johnson County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Johnson County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Johnson County: 3.3 times more than the Nebraska average (1.0% vs 0.3%).

How does Johnson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Johnson County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	16.9 min	22.5 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	6.8%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	5.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Johnson County is 18.5 minutes, longer than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 5.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau