Loup County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Loup County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Loup County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Loup 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 Loup County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,917 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)
Loup County	18.6 min	37.1 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,794	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.

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On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Loup County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Loup County

• Car: 85.0%
• Walked: 11.4% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 3.6% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Loup County: 31494955.5 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Loup County: 4.9 times more than the Nebraska average (11.4% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Loup County: 3.1 times less than the Nebraska average (3.6% vs 11.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Loup County: 50770081.9 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Loup County stands out for active commuting: 11.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.3 times the Nebraska average of 2.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Loup County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Loup 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	67.8%	3.1%	29.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	66.6%	5.7%	27.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	57.7%	8.1%	33.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	61.1%	8.8%	28.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	60.6%	10.1%	27.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	66.8%	8.6%	22.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2015	66.8%	8.3%	22.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.7%
2016	65.1%	7.0%	26.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2017	61.4%	4.9%	33.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	61.5%	4.4%	33.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2019	61.5%	4.5%	34.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	70.8%	3.7%	25.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.9%	5.4%	14.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.9%	10.6%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.2%	12.9%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.0%	11.4%	3.6%	0.0%	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 2011 at 57.7%. Overall it rose from 67.8% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, up 17.2 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Loup County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 29.0% to 3.6% of workers (down 25.4 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 12.9% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 11.4%.

Commute Start Times in Loup County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Loup County?

The bars show when commuters in Loup 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 Loup County6.1% Nebraska4.3%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Loup County2.0% Nebraska3.2%	2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Loup County8.4% Nebraska5.1%	8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Loup County5.1% Nebraska7.7%	5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Loup County7.8% Nebraska10.5%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Loup County14.9% Nebraska15.5%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Loup County10.8% Nebraska16.7%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Loup County24.0% Nebraska10.5%	24.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Loup County0.0% Nebraska4.4%	0.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Loup County2.7% Nebraska4.8%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Loup County4.1% Nebraska2.4%	4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Loup County0.7% Nebraska1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Loup County8.4% Nebraska7.1%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Loup County5.1% Nebraska6.5%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Loup County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 24.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 16.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 57.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Loup 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 Loup 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 Loup 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Loup County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Loup County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Loup County now leave 8 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 Loup County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Loup County's commute time compare?

Metric	Loup County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	3.6%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	11.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Loup County is 18.6 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 11.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau