Johnson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Johnson County, Nebraska: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Johnson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Johnson County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 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 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,941 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	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,854	218
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

Hooker County (7.4 min)
Cherry County (8.0 min)
Box Butte County (8.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Nebraska

Cass County (28.0 min)
Banner County (27.2 min)
Saunders County (26.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Johnson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Johnson County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% 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 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Johnson County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Johnson County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

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

Biking is unusually common in Johnson County: 3.1 times more than the Nebraska average (1.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Johnson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Johnson 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.0%	6.0%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	84.9%	7.5%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	87.4%	7.2%	4.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	87.0%	7.5%	4.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	87.4%	7.4%	4.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	6.9%	4.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.0%	6.4%	3.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	90.2%	4.9%	2.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.6%	6.0%	4.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	89.3%	5.9%	3.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	89.4%	5.4%	4.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	86.1%	6.5%	6.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.9%	5.9%	7.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.2%	5.1%	5.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.7%	6.8%	5.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	9.4%	4.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 90.2%. Overall it fell from 88.0% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Johnson County: its share of workers rose from 6.0% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 4.5% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Johnson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Johnson County?

The bars show when commuters in Johnson 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Johnson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 19.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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	Johnson County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Johnson County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Johnson County now leave 12 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 Johnson County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Johnson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Johnson County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	9.4%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Johnson County is 18.8 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Johnson County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Johnson County, NE is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,261 residents against a local median of 16,241. Where Johnson County, NE breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 25% above the local median of 7.5% at 9.4%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.8 min against a local median of 15.3 min, 23% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% above the local median it puts Johnson County, NE at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.8% on work from home, so Johnson County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Johnson County, NE has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Johnson County, NE	5,261	18.8 min #5/6	9.4% #3/6	7:26 AM #5/6
Pawnee County, NE	2,530	13.7 min	13.1%	7:30 AM
Otoe County, NE	16,241	16.9 min	5.2%	7:25 AM
Nemaha County, NE	7,046	15.0 min	7.5%	7:20 AM
Gage County, NE	21,629	15.3 min	5.5%	7:13 AM
Cass County, NE	27,161	28.0 min	12.3%	7:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Johnson County, Nebraska.

Is living in Johnson County, Nebraska good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,854 at a typical national wage. That's 11% more than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Johnson County, Nebraska?

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Nebraska?

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).