Rock County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rock County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rock 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 73 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Rock County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rock County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $902 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)
Rock County	8.7 min	17.5 min	73 hrs/yr	$2,255	95
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

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On average, it takes 8.7 minutes to get to work in Rock County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Nebraska

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 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rock County

• Car: 85.6%
• Worked at Home: 9.4%
• Walked: 4.6%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Rock County: 885606575.2 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Rock County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rock 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Bicycle
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• Motorcycle
• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	76.1%	12.4%	10.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	64.4%	12.1%	21.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	63.6%	13.2%	21.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	70.4%	10.7%	18.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	73.7%	11.0%	14.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	74.7%	13.0%	12.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	81.2%	13.6%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	83.5%	10.5%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	79.4%	14.2%	5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	78.4%	14.1%	7.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	81.6%	11.4%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	80.5%	13.3%	6.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.0%	16.7%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.5%	14.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	10.5%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.6%	9.4%	4.6%	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 bottomed out in 2011 at 63.6%. Overall it rose from 76.1% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, up 9.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 10.1% to 4.6% of workers (down 5.5 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 16.7% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 9.4%.

Commute Start Times in Rock County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rock County?

The bars show when commuters in Rock 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 Rock County1.2% Nebraska4.3%	1.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Rock County2.9% Nebraska3.2%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Rock County2.7% Nebraska5.1%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Rock County3.7% Nebraska7.7%	3.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Rock County13.1% Nebraska10.5%	13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Rock County18.5% Nebraska15.5%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Rock County26.8% Nebraska16.7%	26.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Rock County15.3% Nebraska10.5%	15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Rock County2.9% Nebraska4.4%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Rock County3.1% Nebraska4.8%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Rock County2.2% Nebraska2.4%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Rock County0.0% Nebraska1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Rock County4.2% Nebraska7.1%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Rock County3.6% Nebraska6.5%	3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rock County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 26.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 6.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 73.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.1%) 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 Rock 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 Rock 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 Rock 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	Rock County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rock County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Nebraska followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Rock County now leave 1 minute 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 Rock County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Rock County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rock County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.7 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	9.4%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.6%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rock County is 8.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 4.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau