Alfalfa County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Alfalfa County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Alfalfa County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 131 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Alfalfa County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,626 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)
Alfalfa County	15.7 min	31.5 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,066	291
Oklahoma	19.0 min	37.9 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,901	941
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 15.7 minutes to get to work in Alfalfa County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of counties in Oklahoma

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 3.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Alfalfa County

• Car: 91.0%
• Worked at Home: 3.7%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Alfalfa County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Alfalfa County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Biking is unusually common in Alfalfa County: 4.1 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Alfalfa County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Alfalfa 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.0%	5.8%	6.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.7%	5.8%	4.6%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	86.5%	5.9%	5.5%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	89.1%	5.3%	3.9%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	88.8%	4.8%	4.2%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	90.0%	4.8%	2.8%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	89.7%	4.5%	3.7%	0.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.2%	3.5%	4.5%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	89.1%	3.5%	4.9%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.2%	3.0%	4.6%	0.3%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	88.1%	3.6%	5.3%	0.4%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	88.6%	2.5%	7.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.4%	2.7%	5.5%	0.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.9%	4.0%	4.9%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.8%	4.8%	3.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	3.7%	3.4%	0.9%	0.9%	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 rose from 86.0% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Alfalfa County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.8% to 3.4% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Alfalfa County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Alfalfa County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Alfalfa County6.0% Oklahoma5.3%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Alfalfa County3.1% Oklahoma3.7%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Alfalfa County3.0% Oklahoma4.8%	3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Alfalfa County7.3% Oklahoma8.5%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Alfalfa County9.2% Oklahoma10.0%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Alfalfa County21.1% Oklahoma15.2%	21.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Alfalfa County19.9% Oklahoma14.5%	19.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Alfalfa County13.3% Oklahoma10.7%	13.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Alfalfa County2.5% Oklahoma4.8%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Alfalfa County3.7% Oklahoma5.7%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Alfalfa County1.1% Oklahoma2.7%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Alfalfa County1.9% Oklahoma1.2%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Alfalfa County3.5% Oklahoma6.2%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Alfalfa County4.5% Oklahoma6.6%	4.5%

Alfalfa County Oklahoma Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Alfalfa County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 63.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.7%) 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 Alfalfa 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 Alfalfa 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 Alfalfa County next to Oklahoma 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	Alfalfa County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Alfalfa County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Alfalfa County now leave 7 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 Alfalfa County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Alfalfa County's commute time compare?

Metric	Alfalfa County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.7 min	19.0 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	3.7%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Alfalfa County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau