Oakville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oakville, Missouri: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Oakville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oakville spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 239 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.7 minutes.

Oakville holds about 0.6% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oakville would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,958 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)
Oakville	28.6 min	57.2 min	239 hrs/yr	$7,394	2,412
Missouri	21.0 min	41.9 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,415	923
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.

Oakville Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.6 minutes to get to work in Oakville. That's 28% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oakville

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Oakville, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Walking is unusually rare in Oakville: 4.2 times less than the Missouri average (0.4% vs 1.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Oakville: 3.2 times less than the Missouri average (0.3% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Oakville, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Few people walk or bike to work in Oakville: just 0.6%, 3.5 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oakville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oakville 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.4%	3.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.6%	3.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.4%	4.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.8%	3.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	4.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.6%	4.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	4.6%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	4.2%	0.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	4.7%	0.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.1%	5.6%	0.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	91.4%	6.3%	0.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	89.0%	9.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	12.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.2%	14.6%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	82.3%	16.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.6%	18.1%	0.5%	0.4%	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. Overall its share fell from 95.4% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 14.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oakville: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 18.1% in 2024, up 14.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Oakville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oakville?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

Oakville Missouri Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Oakville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 49.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 Oakville, 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 Oakville 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 Oakville next to Missouri 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Oakville	Missouri	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oakville were on the road by 7:23 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Oakville now leave 15 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 Oakville has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Oakville in the whole series.

How does Oakville's commute time compare?

Metric	Oakville	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.6 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oakville is 28.6 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oakville, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Oakville, MO compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Oakville, MO	35,902	28.6 min #3/3	18.1% #1/3	7:23 AM #2/3
Mehlville, MO	29,047	22.9 min	11.0%	7:36 AM
Arnold, MO	20,372	27.6 min	9.0%	7:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oakville, Missouri.

Is living in Oakville, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 239 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,394 at a typical national wage. That's 37% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Oakville, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Oakville, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Oakville, Missouri?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.8% in Missouri, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much time do residents in Oakville, Missouri save by working from home?

About 18.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Oakville would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,958 at the same national wage assumption used above.