Bartlesville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bartlesville, Oklahoma: 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 Bartlesville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bartlesville spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Bartlesville holds about 0.8% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bartlesville would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,319 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)
Bartlesville	12.8 min	25.5 min	106 hrs/yr	$3,297	1,702
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.

Bartlesville Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.8 minutes to get to work in Bartlesville. That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bartlesville

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Bartlesville: 3.1 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bartlesville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bartlesville 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	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	92.7%	2.3%	3.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	2.1%	2.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	92.6%	2.5%	2.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	93.6%	2.0%	2.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	93.8%	1.8%	2.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	2.7%	2.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.8%	2.6%	3.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	92.5%	2.5%	3.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	3.0%	3.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	2.7%	2.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	2.7%	2.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	3.4%	1.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	4.3%	1.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.7%	5.4%	1.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	7.4%	2.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	87.7%	8.3%	1.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.8%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bartlesville: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.8% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bartlesville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bartlesville?

The bars show when commuters in Bartlesville 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		4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bartlesville is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Bartlesville, 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 Bartlesville 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 Bartlesville 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bartlesville	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bartlesville were on the road by 7:46 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:45 AM). That goes against the trend across Oklahoma, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bartlesville now leave 9 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 Bartlesville has moved 2 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bartlesville in the whole series.

How does Bartlesville's commute time compare?

Metric	Bartlesville	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.8 min	19.0 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.3%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bartlesville is 12.8 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Oklahoma. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Is commuting expensive in Bartlesville, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 106 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,297 at a typical national wage. That's 33% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Bartlesville, Oklahoma?

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