Perkins County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Perkins County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Perkins County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 74 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Perkins County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Perkins County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $914 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)
Perkins County	8.8 min	17.7 min	74 hrs/yr	$2,284	288
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 8.8 minutes to get to work in Perkins County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% of counties in Nebraska

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 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Perkins County

• Car: 88.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.6%
• Walked: 4.1%
• 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 Perkins County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Perkins County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Perkins 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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• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	80.3%	10.2%	6.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2010	82.8%	8.7%	5.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2011	84.1%	8.5%	5.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	84.4%	9.2%	4.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	83.1%	11.4%	4.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	84.2%	11.1%	4.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	83.1%	12.7%	3.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.0%	10.1%	2.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.8%	10.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.7%	10.8%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	86.5%	10.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2020	87.6%	8.9%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2021	86.3%	10.2%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2022	88.3%	7.1%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	89.8%	4.7%	4.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2024	88.8%	6.6%	4.1%	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 peaked in 2023 at 89.8%. Overall it rose from 80.3% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, up 8.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.2% to 6.6% of workers (down 3.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Perkins County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Perkins County?

The bars show when commuters in Perkins 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 Perkins County6.4% Nebraska4.3%	6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Perkins County2.8% Nebraska3.2%	2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Perkins County2.4% Nebraska5.1%	2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Perkins County5.6% Nebraska7.7%	5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Perkins County14.7% Nebraska10.5%	14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Perkins County25.8% Nebraska15.5%	25.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Perkins County15.1% Nebraska16.7%	15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Perkins County10.2% Nebraska10.5%	10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Perkins County4.2% Nebraska4.4%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Perkins County5.6% Nebraska4.8%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Perkins County3.1% Nebraska2.4%	3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Perkins County0.1% Nebraska1.4%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Perkins County0.6% Nebraska7.1%	0.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Perkins County3.5% Nebraska6.5%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Perkins County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 11.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 65.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.8%) 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 Perkins 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 Perkins 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 Perkins 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	Perkins County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Perkins County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Perkins County now leave 17 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 Perkins County has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Perkins County in the whole series.

How does Perkins County's commute time compare?

Metric	Perkins County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.8 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	6.6%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Perkins County is 8.8 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau