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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Minutes)
County
Value
Adams
16.1
Antelope
16.0
Arthur
20.3
Banner
26.4
Blaine
20.2
Boone
16.1
Box Butte
10.0
Boyd
19.1
Brown
13.2
Buffalo
15.0
Burt
23.1
Butler
22.9
Cass
26.1
Cedar
16.4
Chase
14.2
Cherry
12.6
Cheyenne
13.4
Clay
21.1
Colfax
16.6
Cuming
16.5
Custer
15.8
Dakota
15.5
Dawes
13.5
Dawson
15.9
Deuel
19.0
Dixon
21.5
Dodge
18.7
Douglas
19.4
Dundy
14.7
Fillmore
16.8
Franklin
20.2
Frontier
18.9
Furnas
13.7
Gage
20.3
Garden
17.4
Garfield
12.1
Gosper
16.4
Grant
20.9
Greeley
20.7
Hall
16.7
Hamilton
17.9
Harlan
17.0
Hayes
24.2
Hitchcock
20.4
Holt
13.6
Hooker
14.8
Howard
21.8
Jefferson
15.2
Johnson
21.0
Kearney
17.8
Keith
15.1
Keya Paha
17.4
Kimball
14.8
Knox
17.5
Lancaster
19.1
Lincoln
14.8
Logan
27.2
Loup
26.3
Madison
14.3
McPherson
28.7
Merrick
19.7
Morrill
18.9
Nance
20.2
Nemaha
17.9
Nuckolls
16.6
Otoe
21.9
Pawnee
24.1
Perkins
13.9
Phelps
14.1
Pierce
19.1
Platte
13.7
Polk
21.1
Red Willow
13.2
Richardson
17.0
Rock
13.6
Saline
20.8
Sarpy
20.7
Saunders
24.2
Scotts Bluff
15.0
Seward
21.9
Sheridan
18.8
Sherman
25.3
Sioux
19.9
Stanton
19.5
Thayer
12.9
Thomas
12.3
Thurston
15.8
Valley
16.4
Washington
22.0
Wayne
18.7
Webster
20.6
Wheeler
18.8
York
16.8
Value for Nebraska (Minutes): 18.6
Data item: Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes that it usually took the person to get from home to work each day during the reference week. The elapsed time includes time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in carpools, and time spent in other activities related to getting to work.
Mean travel time to work is obtained by dividing the total number of minutes by the number of workers 16 years old and over who did not work at home. Mean travel time to work is rounded to the nearest tenth of a minute. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Travel Time to Work."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
