Wheeler County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wheeler County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wheeler County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 74 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 48% less time on the road than the Nebraska average of 16.9 minutes each way, a difference of 8.1 minutes.

Wheeler County holds about 0.0% of Nebraska's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wheeler County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $912 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)
Wheeler County	8.8 min	17.7 min	74 hrs/yr	$2,280	231
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 8.8 minutes to get to work in Wheeler County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 87% of counties in Nebraska

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 11.1% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 76.5%
• Worked at Home: 11.1%
• Walked: 9.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.0%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Wheeler County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Walked commuting is unusually common in Wheeler County: 4.2 times more than the Nebraska average (9.8% vs 2.3%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Wheeler County, versus 0.1% in Nebraska.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Wheeler County, versus 0.3% in Nebraska.

Wheeler County stands out for active commuting: 9.8% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.7 times the Nebraska average of 2.6%.

How does Wheeler County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wheeler County	Nebraska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.1%	10.0%	13.4%
Walked	9.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Wheeler County is 8.8 minutes, shorter than the 16.9 minutes in Nebraska.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Nebraska. 9.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Nebraska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau