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Commuting in Kimball 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 Kimball County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kimball County spend about 20 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 84 hours, about 3.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Kimball County holds about 0.2% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kimball County would save about 33 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,037 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)
Kimball County 10.0 min 20.1 min 84 hrs/yr $2,592 169
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

Kimball County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 10.0 minutes to get to work in Kimball County. That's 55% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kimball County

  • Car: 91.4%
  • Worked at Home: 4.3%
  • Walked: 2.5%
  • Motorcycle: 1.2% unusually high
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Kimball County: 12.8 times more than the Nebraska average (1.2% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Kimball County, versus 0.5% in Nebraska.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Kimball County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kimball 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 Motorcycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 82.8% 8.8% 7.6% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 81.7% 9.4% 7.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 84.0% 8.9% 6.0% 0.0% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 85.5% 8.4% 5.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 85.5% 7.3% 6.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 83.9% 7.0% 8.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 85.7% 4.7% 8.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 86.8% 5.2% 6.9% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 89.2% 4.0% 5.4% 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
2018 87.1% 6.8% 4.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
2019 88.4% 7.3% 3.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4%
2020 87.8% 6.9% 5.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 87.9% 6.3% 5.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2022 88.6% 5.1% 4.6% 1.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 90.2% 5.0% 3.0% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.4% 4.3% 2.5% 1.2% 0.5% 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 81.7%. Overall it rose from 82.8% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Kimball County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.2% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.6% to 2.5% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kimball County

  • Early BirdThe earliest start among Nebraska's 93 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:03 AM.
  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 3rd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Nebraska's 93 counties: only 43.4% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kimball County?

The bars show when commuters in Kimball 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
6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
13.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
1.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kimball County is 5:30-5:59 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.1% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 23.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 43.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.0%) 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 Kimball 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 Kimball 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 Kimball 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 Kimball County Nebraska United States
2009 7:09 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:07 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:08 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:10 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:12 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:06 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:05 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:04 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:11 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:08 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:11 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:03 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kimball County were on the road by 7:03 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:09 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Kimball County now leave 35 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 Kimball County has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Kimball County in the whole series.

How does Kimball County's commute time compare?

Metric Kimball County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 10.0 min 17.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 4.3% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.5% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Kimball County is 10.0 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kimball County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Kimball County, NE is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,248 residents against a local median of 9,532. Kimball County, NE's work from home, at 4.3%, runs 51% below the 8.9% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 10.0 min against a local median of 12.8 min, 21% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% below the local median it puts Kimball County, NE at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.4% on work from home, so Kimball County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Kimball County, NE has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Kimball County, NE 3,248 10.0 min #1/6 4.3% #6/6 7:03 AM #1/6
Banner County, NE 742 27.2 min 9.7% 7:14 AM
Scotts Bluff County, NE 35,843 12.1 min 5.9% 7:32 AM
Cheyenne County, NE 9,532 11.1 min 11.3% 7:22 AM
Logan County, CO 20,892 12.8 min 8.9% 7:32 AM
Morrill County, NE 4,535 17.7 min 8.8% 7:06 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kimball County, Nebraska.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Kimball County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 84 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,592 at a typical national wage. That's 41% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Kimball County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM in Kimball County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Kimball 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.

How do commute times compare across 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).