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Commute Time Burden in Morrill County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morrill County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Morrill County holds about 0.2% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morrill County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,833 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)
Morrill County 17.7 min 35.5 min 148 hrs/yr $4,583 275
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

Morrill County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.7 minutes to get to work in Morrill County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morrill County

  • Car: 86.8%
  • Worked at Home: 8.8%
  • Walked: 3.8%
  • Motorcycle: 0.7% unusually high
  • Other: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Morrill County: 7.1 times more than the Nebraska average (0.7% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Morrill County: 141286928.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morrill County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morrill 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 Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle Other
2009 83.4% 7.9% 7.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.4%
2010 82.4% 9.5% 6.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.7% 0.3%
2011 81.0% 10.2% 6.8% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.8% 0.4%
2012 82.1% 10.3% 5.3% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.6% 0.9%
2013 81.1% 10.9% 5.5% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.6% 1.1%
2014 82.7% 9.9% 5.8% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0%
2015 85.1% 7.9% 5.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 1.2%
2016 86.1% 7.5% 4.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1%
2017 84.9% 9.1% 4.6% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2018 84.3% 10.3% 4.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2019 85.5% 10.6% 2.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2020 84.3% 12.5% 2.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2021 86.3% 10.2% 3.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2022 87.9% 8.6% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2023 87.8% 7.9% 3.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 86.8% 8.8% 3.8% 0.7% 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 was highest in 2022 at 87.9% and lowest in 2011 at 81.0%. Overall it rose from 83.4% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morrill County: its share of workers rose from 7.9% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.3% to 3.8% of workers (down 3.5 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 12.5% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 8.8%.

Commute Start Times in Morrill County

  • Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among Nebraska's 93 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:06 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morrill County?

The bars show when commuters in Morrill 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
8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
19.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morrill County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 57.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.6%) 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 Morrill 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 Morrill 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 Morrill 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 Morrill County Nebraska United States
2009 7:26 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:22 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:18 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:16 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:10 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:02 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:00 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:02 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:05 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:06 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morrill County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morrill County now leave 32 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 Morrill County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Morrill County's commute time compare?

Metric Morrill County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.7 min 17.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 8.8% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.8% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morrill County is 17.7 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 3.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morrill County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morrill County, NE is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,535 residents against a local median of 9,532. Where Morrill County, NE breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 60% above the local median of 11.1 min at 17.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 19.2 min on one-way commute, so Morrill County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morrill County, NE has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morrill County, NE 4,535 17.7 min #5/6 8.8% #3/6 7:06 AM #1/6
Cheyenne County, NE 9,532 11.1 min 11.3% 7:22 AM
Box Butte County, NE 10,714 8.0 min 6.1% 7:48 AM
Garden County, NE 1,760 8.2 min 7.8% 7:15 AM
Scotts Bluff County, NE 35,843 12.1 min 5.9% 7:32 AM
Banner County, NE 742 27.2 min 9.7% 7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morrill County, Nebraska.

Is living in Morrill County, Nebraska good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,583 at a typical national wage. That's 4% more than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Morrill County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Morrill County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Morrill 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).