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 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 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 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,136 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	20.7 min	41.3 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,341	2,542
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.

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On average, it takes 20.7 minutes to get to work in Sarpy County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% 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 13.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sarpy County

• Car: 84.9%
• Worked at Home: 13.5%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Sarpy County: 4.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.6% vs 2.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Sarpy County: 14.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Sarpy County: just 0.6%, 4.5 times below the Nebraska average of 2.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Sarpy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sarpy 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	2.9%	0.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.8%	3.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.5%	3.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	3.0%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	95.0%	3.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	95.0%	3.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	3.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	95.1%	2.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	95.0%	3.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.8%	3.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.4%	3.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.6%	5.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.6%	8.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	87.6%	10.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.9%	12.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.9%	13.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sarpy County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 13.5% in 2024, up 10.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Sarpy County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sarpy County?

The bars show when commuters in Sarpy 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 Sarpy County4.1% Nebraska4.3%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sarpy County2.0% Nebraska3.2%	2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sarpy County4.5% Nebraska5.1%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sarpy County8.5% Nebraska7.7%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sarpy County11.9% Nebraska10.5%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sarpy County18.0% Nebraska15.5%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sarpy County16.4% Nebraska16.7%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sarpy County10.1% Nebraska10.5%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sarpy County4.1% Nebraska4.4%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sarpy County3.9% Nebraska4.8%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sarpy County2.0% Nebraska2.4%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sarpy County1.9% Nebraska1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sarpy County6.1% Nebraska7.1%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sarpy County6.6% Nebraska6.5%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sarpy County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 56.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Sarpy 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 Sarpy 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 Sarpy 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sarpy County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 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	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sarpy County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sarpy County now leave 6 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 Sarpy County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Sarpy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sarpy County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.7 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	13.5%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sarpy County is 20.7 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau