Red Willow County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Red Willow 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 Red Willow County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Red Willow County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 71 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 50% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.5 minutes.

Red Willow County holds about 0.5% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Red Willow County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $880 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)
Red Willow County	8.5 min	17.0 min	71 hrs/yr	$2,200	436
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

Hooker County (7.4 min)
Cherry County (8.0 min)
Box Butte County (8.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Nebraska

Cass County (28.0 min)
Banner County (27.2 min)
Saunders County (26.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Red Willow County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 8.5 minutes to get to work in Red Willow County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 91% 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 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Red Willow County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Red Willow County: 4.8 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Red Willow County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Red Willow 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	86.0%	7.8%	3.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	85.8%	7.8%	4.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	83.9%	8.8%	5.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	84.8%	8.3%	5.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.0%	8.8%	4.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.2%	7.1%	4.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.9%	8.4%	3.8%	2.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.8%	7.3%	3.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.4%	6.1%	2.9%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.4%	4.3%	2.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	90.4%	5.1%	2.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.4%	3.2%	3.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.3%	4.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.6%	3.9%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	5.6%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	4.7%	2.9%	0.8%	0.6%	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 93.6% and lowest in 2011 at 83.9%. Overall it rose from 86.0% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 4.7% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 5.8% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Red Willow County

Sleeping InThe 2nd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Nebraska's 93 counties: 29.3% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Red Willow County?

The bars show when commuters in Red Willow 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		1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Red Willow County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 7.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 56.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.3%) 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 Red Willow 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 Red Willow 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 Red Willow 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	Red Willow County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:50 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Red Willow County were on the road by 7:45 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Nebraska, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Red Willow County now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Red Willow County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Red Willow County's commute time compare?

Metric	Red Willow County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.5 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	4.7%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Red Willow County is 8.5 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Red Willow County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Red Willow County, NE is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,557 residents against a local median of 2,569. Where Red Willow County, NE breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 46% below the local median of 15.7 min at 8.5 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 4.7% against a local median of 7.3%, 35% below it. The counties themselves spread 9.8 min on one-way commute, so Red Willow County, NE sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Red Willow County, NE has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Red Willow County, NE	10,557	8.5 min #1/6	4.7% #6/6	7:45 AM #6/6
Frontier County, NE	2,569	15.7 min	7.3%	7:33 AM
Decatur County, KS	2,726	10.8 min	15.3%	7:40 AM
Furnas County, NE	4,568	11.3 min	5.5%	7:29 AM
Hitchcock County, NE	2,569	16.4 min	7.6%	7:28 AM
Hayes County, NE	843	20.6 min	6.0%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Red Willow County, Nebraska.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Red Willow County, Nebraska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 71 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,200 at a typical national wage. That's 50% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Red Willow County, Nebraska?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Red Willow 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.

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).