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Commute Time Burden in Blaine County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blaine County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Blaine County holds about 0.2% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blaine County would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,551 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)
Blaine County 15.0 min 30.0 min 125 hrs/yr $3,877 456
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
  1. Cimarron County (4.8 min)
  2. Woods County (8.5 min)
  3. Harmon County (8.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma
  1. Cotton County (30.4 min)
  2. Logan County (28.5 min)
  3. Lincoln County (28.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Blaine County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Blaine County. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% 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 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blaine County

  • Car: 94.8%
  • Worked at Home: 2.6% unusually low
  • Other: 0.9%
  • Walked: 0.8%
  • Bicycle: 0.6%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Blaine County, versus 0.3% in Oklahoma.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Blaine County: 3.6 times less than the Oklahoma average (2.6% vs 9.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Blaine County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blaine 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 Other Walked Bicycle Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 91.1% 3.8% 2.1% 2.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
2010 92.2% 2.8% 3.5% 1.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 91.8% 3.1% 2.4% 2.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 92.7% 3.0% 1.3% 2.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 92.7% 3.7% 0.4% 2.6% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 92.3% 5.4% 0.5% 1.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 91.8% 5.4% 0.7% 1.6% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 92.7% 4.6% 0.6% 1.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 92.1% 5.8% 0.6% 1.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 93.3% 4.6% 0.6% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 94.6% 3.1% 0.7% 1.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 94.8% 2.9% 0.7% 1.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 95.1% 3.0% 1.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 94.6% 3.0% 0.9% 0.9% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 95.1% 3.1% 0.5% 0.7% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 94.8% 2.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 95.1%. Overall it rose from 91.1% in 2009 to 94.8% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points.

Biking gained the most ground in Blaine County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 0.6% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 5.8% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.6%.

Commute Start Times in Blaine County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blaine County?

The bars show when commuters in Blaine 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
3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blaine County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 58.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 Blaine 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 Blaine 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 Blaine 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 Blaine County Oklahoma United States
2009 7:23 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:38 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:39 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:35 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:32 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:21 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:20 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:25 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:21 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:26 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blaine County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across Oklahoma, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Blaine County now leave 12 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 Blaine County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Blaine County's commute time compare?

Metric Blaine County Oklahoma US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.0 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 2.6% 9.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Blaine County is 15.0 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Blaine County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Blaine County, OK is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,570 residents against a local median of 15,430. Blaine County, OK's work from home, at 2.6%, runs 59% below the 6.5% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.4% on work from home, so Blaine County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Blaine County, OK has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Blaine County, OK 8,570 15.0 min #2/6 2.6% #5/6 7:26 AM #2/6
Major County, OK 7,628 21.2 min 2.1% 7:33 AM
Kingfisher County, OK 15,430 16.5 min 6.5% 7:35 AM
Canadian County, OK 168,984 23.5 min 10.4% 7:29 AM
Dewey County, OK 4,360 15.8 min 6.9% 7:24 AM
Custer County, OK 28,259 12.0 min 3.9% 7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Blaine County, Oklahoma.

Is commuting expensive in Blaine County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,877 at a typical national wage. That's 21% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Blaine 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Blaine County, Oklahoma?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Oklahoma, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).