Logan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Logan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Logan County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Logan County holds about 0.0% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Logan County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,420 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)
Logan County	13.7 min	27.5 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,550	101
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

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On average, it takes 13.7 minutes to get to work in Logan County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Logan County

• Car: 83.7%
• Worked at Home: 12.3%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Logan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Logan 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	80.9%	15.2%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	78.7%	19.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	75.5%	23.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	72.7%	25.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	66.1%	30.9%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	65.1%	29.7%	4.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	72.7%	23.0%	4.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	74.4%	20.4%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	76.7%	15.8%	7.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.3%	9.5%	5.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	80.0%	7.8%	11.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	80.3%	10.0%	8.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.8%	10.6%	8.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	76.7%	17.1%	5.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.1%	12.6%	5.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.7%	12.3%	3.5%	0.5%	0.0%	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 2014 at 65.1%. Overall it rose from 80.9% in 2009 to 83.7% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 15.2% to 12.3% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 11.1% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 3.5%.

Commute Start Times in Logan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Logan County?

The bars show when commuters in Logan 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 AM Logan County8.3% Nebraska4.3%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Logan County2.6% Nebraska3.2%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Logan County2.0% Nebraska5.1%	2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Logan County11.2% Nebraska7.7%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Logan County7.7% Nebraska10.5%	7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Logan County25.2% Nebraska15.5%	25.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Logan County14.6% Nebraska16.7%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Logan County16.9% Nebraska10.5%	16.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Logan County0.0% Nebraska4.4%	0.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Logan County0.3% Nebraska4.8%	0.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Logan County5.7% Nebraska2.4%	5.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Logan County1.1% Nebraska1.4%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Logan County1.1% Nebraska7.1%	1.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Logan County3.2% Nebraska6.5%	3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Logan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are about as common as in Nebraska: 12.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 64.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.5%) 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 Logan 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 Logan 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 Logan 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.

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• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Logan County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Logan County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Logan County now leave 16 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 Logan County has moved 21 minutes earlier.

How does Logan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Logan County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Logan County is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau