Beaver County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Beaver County, 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 Beaver County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beaver County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Beaver 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 Beaver County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,434 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)
Beaver County	13.9 min	27.7 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,584	343
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.

Commute Time Map: Oklahoma Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Oklahoma

Cimarron County (4.8 min)
Woods County (8.5 min)
Harmon County (8.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma

Cotton County (30.4 min)
Logan County (28.5 min)
Lincoln County (28.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Beaver County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.9 minutes to get to work in Beaver County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% 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 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beaver County

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Beaver County: 5.3 times more than the Oklahoma average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beaver County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beaver 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.

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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.3%	4.3%	2.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	90.5%	4.2%	3.1%	0.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	4.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	89.9%	4.9%	3.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.6%	4.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	91.8%	4.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.9%	3.9%	2.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	88.8%	6.5%	2.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	88.9%	6.5%	2.7%	0.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	7.0%	3.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.3%	7.9%	2.6%	0.0%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.2%	8.7%	2.2%	0.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.3%	6.1%	2.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	5.6%	2.3%	0.0%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.2%	8.5%	1.6%	0.5%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.0%	6.9%	2.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	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 2013 at 92.6% and lowest in 2020 at 87.2%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 89.0% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Beaver County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 2.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 8.7% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 6.9%.

Commute Start Times in Beaver County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beaver County?

The bars show when commuters in Beaver 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		2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		23.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Beaver County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 62.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.0%) 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 Beaver 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 Beaver 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 Beaver 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Beaver County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beaver County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Beaver County now leave 13 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 Beaver County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Beaver County's commute time compare?

Metric	Beaver County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.9 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	6.9%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beaver County is 13.9 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Beaver County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Beaver County, OK is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,028 residents against a local median of 3,903. The measure that sets Beaver County, OK apart most is work from home: 6.9%, 107% above the local median of 3.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 13.9 min against a local median of 11.3 min, 23% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% above the local median it puts Beaver County, OK at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.5% on work from home, so Beaver County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Beaver County, OK has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Beaver County, OK	5,028	13.9 min #4/6	6.9% #2/6	7:24 AM #2/6
Meade County, KS	3,903	15.1 min	7.8%	7:34 AM
Lipscomb County, TX	2,918	15.9 min	2.1%	7:17 AM
Ochiltree County, TX	9,786	10.1 min	3.3%	7:33 AM
Seward County, KS	21,486	11.3 min	3.4%	7:30 AM
Harper County, OK	3,202	11.1 min	1.3%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beaver County, Oklahoma.

Is commuting expensive in Beaver County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 116 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,584 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

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

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma?

Among counties in Oklahoma, the shortest average commutes are in Cimarron County (4.8 min), Woods County (8.5 min), Harmon County (8.8 min). The longest are in Cotton County (30.4 min), Logan County (28.5 min), Lincoln County (28.0 min).