Scotts Bluff County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scotts Bluff County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scotts Bluff County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 101 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Scotts Bluff County holds about 1.8% of Nebraska's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Scotts Bluff County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,248 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)
Scotts Bluff County	12.1 min	24.2 min	101 hrs/yr	$3,120	505
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 12.1 minutes to get to work in Scotts Bluff County. That's 46% 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 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scotts Bluff County

• Car: 90.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.9%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Scotts Bluff County: 8.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Scotts Bluff County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scotts Bluff 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.6%	5.3%	2.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.9%	4.3%	2.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	91.5%	4.4%	2.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	91.7%	4.4%	2.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	93.0%	3.7%	2.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.2%	3.6%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.7%	3.7%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	93.0%	3.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.6%	3.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.9%	3.3%	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	94.1%	3.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	93.0%	4.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	5.3%	1.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.2%	5.5%	2.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.4%	5.9%	2.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	5.9%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 94.1%. Overall it rose from 89.6% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Scotts Bluff County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Scotts Bluff County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scotts Bluff County?

The bars show when commuters in Scotts Bluff 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 Scotts Bluff County5.1% Nebraska4.3%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scotts Bluff County3.9% Nebraska3.2%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scotts Bluff County5.1% Nebraska5.1%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scotts Bluff County6.7% Nebraska7.7%	6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scotts Bluff County12.1% Nebraska10.5%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scotts Bluff County15.6% Nebraska15.5%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scotts Bluff County18.4% Nebraska16.7%	18.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scotts Bluff County7.6% Nebraska10.5%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scotts Bluff County6.2% Nebraska4.4%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scotts Bluff County3.3% Nebraska4.8%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scotts Bluff County3.5% Nebraska2.4%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scotts Bluff County2.2% Nebraska1.4%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scotts Bluff County4.6% Nebraska7.1%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scotts Bluff County5.8% Nebraska6.5%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scotts Bluff County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.7% across Nebraska. Early starts are more common than in Nebraska: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Nebraska's: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Scotts Bluff 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 Scotts Bluff 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 Scotts Bluff 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	Scotts Bluff County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scotts Bluff County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Nebraska, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Scotts Bluff County now leave 5 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 Scotts Bluff County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Scotts Bluff County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scotts Bluff County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.1 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	5.9%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scotts Bluff County is 12.1 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Nebraska.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau