Papillion Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Papillion: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Papillion spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Papillion holds about 1.2% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Papillion would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,189 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)
Papillion	21.2 min	42.4 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,472	3,163
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.

Papillion Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Papillion. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Papillion

• Car: 84.0%
• Worked at Home: 14.2%
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Papillion: 5.6 times less than the Nebraska average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Papillion: 5.0 times less than the Nebraska average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Papillion: 6.4 times less than the Nebraska average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Papillion: just 0.5%, 5.6 times below the Nebraska average of 2.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Papillion, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Papillion 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	3.9%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.3%	4.4%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	4.3%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	3.5%	0.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.5%	3.1%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	94.7%	2.9%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	95.4%	2.4%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	95.2%	2.6%	0.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	95.0%	3.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.6%	3.9%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.8%	3.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.2%	6.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.4%	10.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	86.6%	11.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	85.5%	12.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	84.0%	14.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 95.4%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 84.0% in 2024, down 10.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Papillion: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 14.2% in 2024, up 10.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Papillion

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Papillion?

The bars show when commuters in Papillion 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 Papillion2.5% Nebraska4.3%	2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Papillion1.8% Nebraska3.2%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Papillion3.5% Nebraska5.1%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Papillion8.8% Nebraska7.7%	8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Papillion12.1% Nebraska10.5%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Papillion20.7% Nebraska15.5%	20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Papillion16.3% Nebraska16.7%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Papillion11.5% Nebraska10.5%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Papillion4.4% Nebraska4.4%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Papillion3.7% Nebraska4.8%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Papillion2.5% Nebraska2.4%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Papillion0.9% Nebraska1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Papillion5.2% Nebraska7.1%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Papillion6.3% Nebraska6.5%	6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Papillion is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 7.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 60.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.5%) 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 Papillion, 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 Papillion 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 Papillion 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.

• Papillion
• Nebraska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Papillion	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Papillion were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Nebraska, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Papillion now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Papillion's commute time compare?

Metric	Papillion	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.2%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Papillion is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau