Sarpy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sarpy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sarpy 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 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Sarpy County holds about 10.0% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 12.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sarpy County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,116 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)
Sarpy County	20.5 min	40.9 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,289	2,542
Nebraska	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	691
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 20.5 minutes to get to work in Sarpy County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 12.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 85.9%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Sarpy County: 5.2 times less than the Nebraska average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Walked commuting is unusually low in Sarpy County: 3.5 times less than the Nebraska average (0.7% vs 2.3%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Sarpy County: 3.2 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Sarpy County: 13.6 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Sarpy County: just 0.7%, 3.8 times below the Nebraska average of 2.6%.

How does Sarpy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sarpy County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 min	16.9 min	22.5 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	12.5%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	0.7%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Sarpy County is 20.5 minutes, longer than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau