Commuting in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.
Lincoln County holds about 1.7% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,309 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)
Lincoln County
12.7 min
25.3 min
106 hrs/yr
$3,272
315
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.
On average, it takes
12.7
minutes to get to work in
Lincoln County.
That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Lincoln County
Car:
92.1%
Worked at Home:
3.6%unusually low
Walked:
1.9%
Bicycle:
0.8%
Other:
0.8%
Public Transportation:
0.6%
Motorcycle:
0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lincoln County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.
Working from home is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 3.1 times less than the Nebraska average (3.6% vs 11.1%).
Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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
Other
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
91.6%
4.5%
2.1%
0.2%
0.9%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
2010
91.2%
4.7%
2.3%
0.2%
1.0%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2011
90.7%
5.7%
2.1%
0.3%
0.7%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2012
91.0%
5.2%
2.1%
0.3%
0.7%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
2013
91.4%
4.9%
1.7%
0.4%
0.7%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
2014
91.1%
4.9%
2.4%
0.3%
0.7%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2015
91.7%
4.5%
2.4%
0.3%
0.6%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2016
92.2%
4.2%
2.3%
0.3%
0.5%
0.4%
0.2%
0.0%
2017
92.7%
3.1%
3.2%
0.2%
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2018
92.9%
2.6%
3.1%
0.2%
0.6%
0.5%
0.1%
0.0%
2019
93.3%
3.0%
2.4%
0.1%
0.5%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
93.3%
2.7%
2.4%
0.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
92.7%
2.6%
2.4%
0.7%
0.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
92.7%
3.2%
1.9%
0.7%
1.0%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
91.4%
3.7%
2.5%
0.7%
0.6%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
2024
92.1%
3.6%
1.9%
0.8%
0.8%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 93.3% and lowest in 2011 at 90.7%. Overall it rose from 91.6% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Biking gained the most ground in Lincoln County: its share of workers rose from 0.2% in 2009 to 0.8% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 4.5% to 3.6% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).
Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.
Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.
Commute Start Times in Lincoln County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?
The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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 AMLincoln County5.3%Nebraska4.3%
5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMLincoln County5.0%Nebraska3.2%
5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMLincoln County4.7%Nebraska5.1%
4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMLincoln County5.9%Nebraska7.7%
5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMLincoln County7.9%Nebraska10.5%
7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMLincoln County10.4%Nebraska15.5%
10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMLincoln County18.2%Nebraska16.7%
18.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMLincoln County12.5%Nebraska10.5%
12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMLincoln County3.5%Nebraska4.4%
3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMLincoln County5.7%Nebraska4.8%
5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMLincoln County2.4%Nebraska2.4%
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMLincoln County1.4%Nebraska1.4%
1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMLincoln County8.4%Nebraska7.1%
8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMLincoln County8.8%Nebraska6.5%
8.8%
Lincoln CountyNebraskaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nebraska: 49.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.6%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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
Lincoln County
Nebraska
United States
2009
7:47 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:48 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:50 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:52 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:48 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:50 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:47 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:46 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:42 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:43 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:44 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:46 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:47 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:50 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:50 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:48 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:48 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Nebraska, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lincoln County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lincoln County has moved 4 minutes later.
How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?
Metric
Lincoln County
Nebraska
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
12.7 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
3.6%
11.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.9%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.6%
0.5%
3.2%
The average commute time in Lincoln County is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.
0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.
Lincoln County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Lincoln County, NE is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 33,802 residents against a local median of 773. The measure that sets Lincoln County, NE apart most is work from home: 3.6%, 69% below the local median of 11.7%.
The counties themselves spread 12.2% on work from home, so Lincoln County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lincoln County, NE has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Is living in Lincoln County, Nebraska good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 106 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,272 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Lincoln County, Nebraska?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in Nebraska have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).