Commuting in Pierce County, Nebraska: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
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Commute Time Burden in Pierce County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Pierce County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.
Pierce County holds about 0.4% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Pierce County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,121 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)
Pierce County
20.5 min
41.1 min
171 hrs/yr
$5,302
760
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.
On average, it takes
20.5
minutes to get to work in
Pierce County.
That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower 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 8.0% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Pierce County
Car:
88.5%
Worked at Home:
8.0%
Walked:
2.6%
Bicycle:
0.6%
Other:
0.4%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Pierce County: 9537409157.5 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Pierce County: 123626684.8 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Pierce County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.
Commute Mode Trends in Pierce County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Pierce 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
Bicycle
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
87.4%
8.0%
4.2%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2010
86.1%
9.2%
4.2%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
86.2%
10.0%
3.3%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2012
86.5%
9.7%
3.4%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
85.6%
11.2%
2.9%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
86.7%
10.5%
2.4%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
87.8%
8.6%
2.4%
0.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
88.8%
7.4%
2.4%
0.4%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2017
88.4%
7.1%
3.0%
0.4%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
88.1%
7.3%
3.4%
0.4%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
88.1%
6.5%
4.1%
0.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
87.3%
8.5%
4.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
85.5%
10.4%
3.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
86.3%
9.7%
3.1%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
87.3%
8.9%
2.9%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
88.5%
8.0%
2.6%
0.6%
0.4%
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 2016 at 88.8% and lowest in 2021 at 85.5%. Overall it rose from 87.4% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.
Biking gained the most ground in Pierce County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.6% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 2.6% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).
Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.
Working from home peaked at 11.2% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 8.0%.
Commute Start Times in Pierce County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pierce County?
The bars show when commuters in Pierce 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 AMPierce County3.9%Nebraska4.3%
3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMPierce County5.4%Nebraska3.2%
5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMPierce County3.7%Nebraska5.1%
3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMPierce County8.4%Nebraska7.7%
8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMPierce County8.9%Nebraska10.5%
8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMPierce County21.1%Nebraska15.5%
21.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMPierce County19.2%Nebraska16.7%
19.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMPierce County8.0%Nebraska10.5%
8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMPierce County3.0%Nebraska4.4%
3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMPierce County3.7%Nebraska4.8%
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMPierce County1.4%Nebraska2.4%
1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMPierce County2.1%Nebraska1.4%
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMPierce County8.3%Nebraska7.1%
8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMPierce County2.9%Nebraska6.5%
2.9%
Pierce CountyNebraskaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Pierce County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are about as common as in Nebraska: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 57.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Pierce 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 Pierce 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 Pierce 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
Pierce County
Nebraska
United States
2009
7:25 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:19 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:21 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:23 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:20 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:17 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:18 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:22 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:23 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Pierce County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Pierce County now leave 10 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 Pierce County has moved 11 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Pierce County in the whole series.
How does Pierce County's commute time compare?
Metric
Pierce County
Nebraska
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.5 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
8.0%
11.1%
15.0%
Walked
2.6%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.5%
3.2%
The average commute time in Pierce County is 20.5 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.
Pierce County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Pierce County, NE is typical in size for this group, 7,325 residents against a local median of 8,363, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Pierce County, NE breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 57% above the local median of 13.1 min at 20.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 8.0% against a local median of 9.9%, 19% below it. The counties themselves sit within 3.3 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Pierce County, NE, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Pierce County, NE has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Pierce County, Nebraska.
Is commuting expensive in Pierce County, Nebraska?
Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,302 at a typical national wage. That's 21% more than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Pierce County, Nebraska?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pierce County, Nebraska. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Pierce 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).