Broken Arrow Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Broken Arrow: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Broken Arrow spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Broken Arrow holds about 2.8% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 3.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Broken Arrow would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,176 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)
Broken Arrow	21.1 min	42.1 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,440	2,637
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.

Broken Arrow Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.1 minutes to get to work in Broken Arrow. That's 6% 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 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Broken Arrow

• Car: 87.2%
• Worked at Home: 11.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Broken Arrow: 3.8 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.5% vs 1.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Broken Arrow: 6.4 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Broken Arrow: 9.6 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Broken Arrow: just 0.5%, 4.0 times below the Oklahoma average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Broken Arrow, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Broken Arrow 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	3.1%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	3.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.6%	3.7%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	3.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	94.1%	4.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.8%	4.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	4.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.4%	4.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.4%	3.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.3%	3.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.1%	4.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.9%	5.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	90.8%	7.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	89.2%	9.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	87.8%	10.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.2%	11.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2016 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Broken Arrow: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Broken Arrow

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Broken Arrow?

The bars show when commuters in Broken Arrow 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 Broken Arrow4.5% Oklahoma5.3%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Broken Arrow2.6% Oklahoma3.7%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Broken Arrow3.9% Oklahoma4.8%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Broken Arrow7.4% Oklahoma8.5%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Broken Arrow9.8% Oklahoma10.0%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Broken Arrow15.2% Oklahoma15.2%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Broken Arrow16.8% Oklahoma14.5%	16.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Broken Arrow11.6% Oklahoma10.7%	11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Broken Arrow6.0% Oklahoma4.8%	6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Broken Arrow6.6% Oklahoma5.7%	6.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Broken Arrow2.5% Oklahoma2.7%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Broken Arrow1.3% Oklahoma1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Broken Arrow5.5% Oklahoma6.2%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Broken Arrow6.4% Oklahoma6.6%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Broken Arrow is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 11.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 53.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Broken Arrow, 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 Broken Arrow 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 Broken Arrow 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.

• Broken Arrow
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Broken Arrow	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 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	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Broken Arrow were on the road by 7:42 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Oklahoma, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Broken Arrow now leave 4 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 Broken Arrow has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Broken Arrow's commute time compare?

Metric	Broken Arrow	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	11.4%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Broken Arrow is 21.1 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau