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Richardson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Richardson 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 Richardson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Richardson County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 128 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Richardson 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 Richardson County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,586 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)
Richardson County 15.3 min 30.7 min 128 hrs/yr $3,964 260
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

Richardson County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.3 minutes to get to work in Richardson County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Richardson County

  • Car: 88.5%
  • Worked at Home: 6.5%
  • Walked: 4.3%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Richardson County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Public transit is unusually rare in Richardson County: 112046123.7 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Richardson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Richardson 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 90.3% 5.5% 4.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 91.3% 4.8% 3.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.7% 4.4% 3.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 89.5% 7.0% 3.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 89.4% 7.5% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 90.7% 7.0% 2.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 89.7% 7.5% 1.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 89.7% 7.1% 2.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 93.0% 4.3% 1.8% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 92.5% 3.8% 2.6% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 92.8% 3.1% 3.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.3% 4.0% 4.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.1% 4.9% 5.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 88.7% 5.8% 4.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.3% 6.1% 4.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 88.5% 6.5% 4.3% 0.5% 0.2% 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 2017 at 93.0% and lowest in 2023 at 88.3%. Overall it fell from 90.3% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Richardson County: its share of workers rose from 5.5% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 7.5% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 6.5%.

Commute Start Times in Richardson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richardson County?

The bars show when commuters in Richardson 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
3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
21.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Richardson County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Nebraska's: 51.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Richardson 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 Richardson 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 Richardson 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 Richardson County Nebraska United States
2009 7:37 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:34 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:22 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:19 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:28 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:29 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Richardson County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Richardson County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Richardson County has moved 19 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Richardson County in the whole series.

How does Richardson County's commute time compare?

Metric Richardson County Nebraska US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.3 min 17.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 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 6.5% 11.1% 15.0%
Walked 4.3% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Richardson County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Richardson County, NE Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Richardson County, NE is typical in size for this group, 7,751 residents against a local median of 7,046, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Richardson County, NE sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% below the local median at 6.5% against 7.1%. Richardson County, NE has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Richardson County, NE 7,751 15.3 min #4/6 6.5% #4/6 7:38 AM #6/6
Nemaha County, NE 7,046 15.0 min 7.5% 7:20 AM
Brown County, KS 9,343 13.4 min 7.1% 7:31 AM
Atchison County, MO 5,187 17.0 min 6.1% 7:23 AM
Nemaha County, KS 10,160 11.7 min 5.5% 7:33 AM
Holt County, MO 4,240 17.9 min 8.0% 7:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Richardson County, Nebraska.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 128 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,964 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Nebraska commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Richardson 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.

How common is public transit use in Richardson 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.

Which counties in Nebraska have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).