Madison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Madison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Madison County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 30% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Madison County holds about 1.8% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Madison County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,223 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)
Madison County	11.8 min	23.7 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,057	994
Nebraska	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	691
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 11.8 minutes to get to work in Madison County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 5.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 5.4%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Madison County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

How does Madison County's commute time compare?

Metric	Madison County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.8 min	16.9 min	22.5 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	5.4%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	2.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Madison County is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau