Oregon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oregon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oregon County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oregon County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,896 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)
Oregon County	18.3 min	36.7 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,739	121
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.

Commute Time Map: Missouri Counties

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On average, it takes 18.3 minutes to get to work in Oregon County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oregon County

• Car: 88.6%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Oregon County: 3.3 times less than the Missouri average (0.5% vs 1.8%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Oregon County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Few people walk or bike to work in Oregon County: just 0.5%, 3.7 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oregon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oregon 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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• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.8%	4.4%	0.7%	0.9%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	5.0%	1.4%	0.9%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.0%	3.2%	2.3%	1.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	89.8%	3.9%	2.3%	2.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	91.1%	3.3%	1.2%	1.9%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	91.1%	4.0%	1.1%	1.4%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.3%	4.5%	0.6%	1.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	89.9%	4.2%	1.8%	2.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	3.7%	2.0%	1.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	4.4%	0.8%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.7%	7.1%	0.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.4%	7.7%	0.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.9%	11.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.1%	13.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.0%	12.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.6%	9.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	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 was highest in 2018 at 92.4% and lowest in 2023 at 86.0%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 88.6% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oregon County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 13.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 9.5%.

Commute Start Times in Oregon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oregon County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Oregon County9.9% Missouri5.2%	9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oregon County1.5% Missouri3.9%	1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oregon County8.1% Missouri5.3%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oregon County5.3% Missouri9.0%	5.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oregon County14.5% Missouri10.4%	14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oregon County19.8% Missouri15.0%	19.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oregon County16.8% Missouri13.6%	16.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oregon County6.9% Missouri10.1%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oregon County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oregon County2.6% Missouri5.2%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oregon County2.1% Missouri2.6%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oregon County0.9% Missouri1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oregon County5.2% Missouri7.0%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oregon County2.2% Missouri6.9%	2.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oregon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 58.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.1%) 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 Oregon 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 Oregon 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 Oregon County 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.

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• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Oregon County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oregon County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Oregon County now leave 22 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 Oregon County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Oregon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oregon County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oregon County is 18.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Missouri. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau