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Commuting in Keith 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 Keith County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Keith County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 91 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.1 minutes.

Keith County holds about 0.4% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Keith County would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,126 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)
Keith County 10.9 min 21.8 min 91 hrs/yr $2,816 301
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

Keith County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 10.9 minutes to get to work in Keith County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 77% 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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Keith County

  • Car: 85.5%
  • Worked at Home: 10.0%
  • Walked: 4.1%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Keith County: 404168586.6 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Keith County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Keith 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 84.5% 5.8% 8.1% 1.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 85.4% 6.7% 5.4% 2.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 85.0% 6.3% 4.6% 3.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 84.0% 6.9% 4.8% 3.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 84.4% 6.9% 5.3% 3.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 84.9% 5.4% 5.0% 3.3% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 84.7% 5.4% 5.7% 2.7% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 83.7% 6.2% 5.6% 2.9% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 84.7% 5.8% 4.7% 3.4% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 85.9% 6.2% 4.0% 2.7% 0.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 86.6% 6.3% 4.1% 2.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 86.3% 6.0% 3.6% 3.8% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 88.6% 7.3% 2.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 88.3% 8.0% 2.5% 0.7% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 85.6% 11.1% 2.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.5% 10.0% 4.1% 0.3% 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 was highest in 2021 at 88.6% and lowest in 2016 at 83.7%. Overall it rose from 84.5% in 2009 to 85.5% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Keith County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.1% to 4.1% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.5% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Keith County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Keith County?

The bars show when commuters in Keith 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
5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
20.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
1.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Keith County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 58.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.2%) 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 Keith 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 Keith 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 Keith 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 Keith County Nebraska United States
2009 7:21 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:22 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:23 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:21 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:21 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:26 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:36 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:38 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Keith County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Keith County now leave 7 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 Keith County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Keith County's commute time compare?

Metric Keith County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 10.9 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 10.0% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 4.1% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Keith County is 10.9 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% 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

Keith County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Keith County, NE is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,219 residents against a local median of 1,847. The measure that sets Keith County, NE apart most is one-way commute: 10.9 min, 23% above the local median of 8.8 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 14.9 min on one-way commute, so Keith County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Keith County, NE has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Keith County, NE 8,219 10.9 min #4/6 10.0% #3/6 7:31 AM #5/6
Perkins County, NE 2,821 8.8 min 6.6% 7:21 AM
Arthur County, NE 484 8.2 min 10.1% 7:21 AM
Chase County, NE 3,671 8.2 min 9.8% 7:17 AM
Deuel County, NE 1,847 23.1 min 5.5% 7:12 AM
McPherson County, NE 475 13.0 min 18.1% 8:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Keith County, Nebraska.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 91 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,816 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Keith County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Keith 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.

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).