Oxford Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oxford, Mississippi: 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 Oxford: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oxford spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 103 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Oxford holds about 0.7% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oxford would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,278 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)
Oxford	12.4 min	24.7 min	103 hrs/yr	$3,195	1,839
Mississippi	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,558	914
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.

Oxford Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.4 minutes to get to work in Oxford. That's 45% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oxford

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Oxford: 3.2 times more than the Mississippi average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Oxford: 4.6 times more than the Mississippi average (6.2% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually common in Oxford: 6.3 times more than the Mississippi average (1.7% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Oxford, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Biking is unusually common in Oxford: 3.2 times more than the Mississippi average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Oxford stands out for active commuting: 6.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.5 times the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oxford, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oxford 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	82.9%	5.1%	8.9%	0.0%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	87.4%	4.1%	4.7%	0.2%	1.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	86.6%	4.9%	3.6%	0.4%	2.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	86.7%	4.9%	4.2%	0.4%	2.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	87.8%	5.1%	3.8%	0.8%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	87.7%	4.8%	3.8%	0.8%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	87.3%	4.6%	3.3%	1.1%	1.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.0%	5.0%	2.7%	0.6%	0.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.5%	5.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.5%	5.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.8%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	88.9%	4.5%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	87.0%	6.4%	2.9%	1.6%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	83.9%	6.3%	5.0%	2.9%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	85.5%	5.2%	5.7%	1.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	84.1%	7.0%	5.8%	2.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	9.6%	6.2%	1.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 82.9% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 1.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oxford: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.9% to 6.2% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 2.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Oxford

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oxford?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		11.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.7%

Oxford Mississippi Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Oxford is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 6.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.7%) 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 Oxford, 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 Oxford 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 Oxford next to Mississippi 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	Oxford	Mississippi	United States
2009	8:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:16 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:08 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oxford were on the road by 8:07 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Oxford now leave 29 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Oxford has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Oxford's commute time compare?

Metric	Oxford	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.4 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.6%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	6.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oxford is 12.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 6.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oxford, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Oxford, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 103 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,195 at a typical national wage. That's 43% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Oxford, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Oxford, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Oxford, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.7% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Mississippi, making it a realistic option for many workers.