Niobrara County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Niobrara County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Niobrara County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 63 hours, about 2.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% less time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Niobrara County holds about 0.4% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Niobrara County would save about 25 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $783 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)
Niobrara County	7.6 min	15.1 min	63 hrs/yr	$1,957	133
Wyoming	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	263
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 7.6 minutes to get to work in Niobrara County. That's 66% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Niobrara County

• Car: 84.5%
• Worked at Home: 11.3%
• Walked: 4.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Niobrara County, versus 0.2% in Wyoming.

Public transit is unusually rare in Niobrara County: 890043573.2 times less than the Wyoming average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Niobrara County, versus 0.0% in Wyoming.

Biking is essentially absent in Niobrara County, versus 0.7% in Wyoming.

Commute Mode Trends in Niobrara County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Niobrara 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	76.9%	12.9%	8.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	71.7%	16.7%	10.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	70.2%	15.6%	11.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.6%	1.1%
2012	72.6%	17.1%	8.2%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	70.9%	15.1%	11.6%	0.1%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2014	68.6%	15.5%	13.0%	0.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.8%
2015	73.0%	11.6%	12.1%	0.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	1.4%
2016	75.4%	9.4%	12.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	1.1%
2017	75.9%	7.4%	13.1%	0.4%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	1.9%
2018	76.2%	9.9%	11.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
2019	78.6%	12.1%	6.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%
2020	80.3%	13.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2021	82.6%	11.9%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2022	83.9%	10.7%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2023	79.7%	15.0%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.5%	11.3%	4.2%	0.0%	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 2014 at 68.6%. Overall it rose from 76.9% in 2009 to 84.5% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.8% to 4.2% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 17.1% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 11.3%.

Commute Start Times in Niobrara County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Wyoming's 23 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:07 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Niobrara County?

The bars show when commuters in Niobrara 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 Wyoming for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Niobrara County3.5% Wyoming5.8%	3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Niobrara County2.1% Wyoming4.3%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Niobrara County8.6% Wyoming6.2%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Niobrara County28.4% Wyoming7.8%	28.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Niobrara County2.6% Wyoming10.4%	2.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Niobrara County21.7% Wyoming15.1%	21.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Niobrara County11.1% Wyoming16.2%	11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Niobrara County8.4% Wyoming9.7%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Niobrara County4.7% Wyoming4.2%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Niobrara County1.9% Wyoming5.6%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Niobrara County2.4% Wyoming2.3%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Niobrara County0.0% Wyoming1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Niobrara County3.1% Wyoming5.6%	3.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Niobrara County1.6% Wyoming5.3%	1.6%

Niobrara County Wyoming Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Niobrara County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 28.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.8% across Wyoming. Early starts are less common than in Wyoming: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wyoming: 43.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 11 commuters (9.0%) 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 Niobrara 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 Niobrara 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 Niobrara County next to Wyoming 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	Niobrara County	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Niobrara County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wyoming, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Niobrara County now leave 31 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 Niobrara County has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Niobrara County in the whole series.

How does Niobrara County's commute time compare?

Metric	Niobrara County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.6 min	13.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	11.3%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Niobrara County is 7.6 minutes, shorter than the 13.2 minutes in Wyoming.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau