Sioux County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sioux County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sioux County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Nebraska average of 17.0 minutes each way.

Sioux County holds about 0.1% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sioux County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,761 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)
Sioux County	17.0 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,402	120
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 17.0 minutes to get to work in Sioux County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sioux County

• Car: 88.4%
• Walked: 6.2%
• Worked at Home: 4.4%
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Sioux County: 387592529.7 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Sioux County: 4207497.1 times less than the Nebraska average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sioux County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sioux 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	73.4%	9.0%	16.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	76.9%	7.1%	15.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	79.9%	7.0%	11.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2012	81.1%	7.2%	10.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	79.8%	8.3%	11.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2014	73.1%	14.4%	11.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	69.8%	16.6%	12.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2016	66.8%	16.1%	16.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	65.3%	15.6%	18.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	61.3%	15.1%	22.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	65.9%	9.6%	23.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	72.8%	6.4%	20.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	72.6%	8.7%	18.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.6%	7.1%	11.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.1%	6.7%	5.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	6.2%	4.4%	1.1%	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 2018 at 61.3%. Overall it rose from 73.4% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, up 15.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 16.0% to 4.4% of workers (down 11.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 16.6% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 6.2%.

Commute Start Times in Sioux County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sioux County?

The bars show when commuters in Sioux 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 Sioux County2.5% Nebraska4.3%	2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sioux County3.2% Nebraska3.2%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sioux County3.8% Nebraska5.1%	3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sioux County15.7% Nebraska7.7%	15.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sioux County13.7% Nebraska10.5%	13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sioux County23.5% Nebraska15.5%	23.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sioux County10.4% Nebraska16.7%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sioux County8.9% Nebraska10.5%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sioux County0.8% Nebraska4.4%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sioux County3.0% Nebraska4.8%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sioux County0.4% Nebraska2.4%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sioux County7.4% Nebraska1.4%	7.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sioux County0.8% Nebraska7.1%	0.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sioux County5.9% Nebraska6.5%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sioux County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across Nebraska. Early starts are less common than in Nebraska: 9.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Nebraska: 56.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 53.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Sioux 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 Sioux 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 Sioux 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	Sioux County	Nebraska	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sioux County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). That goes against the trend across Nebraska, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sioux County now leave 24 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 Sioux County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Sioux County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sioux County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.4%	11.1%	15.0%
Walked	6.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sioux County is about the same as in Nebraska.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 6.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau