Canadian County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Canadian County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Canadian County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.6 minutes.

Canadian County holds about 4.2% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 5.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Canadian County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,433 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)
Canadian County	23.5 min	47.1 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,081	1,839
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

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On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Canadian County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% 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 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Canadian County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.4%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Biking is unusually rare in Canadian County: 13.5 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Canadian County: just 0.7%, 3.0 times below the Oklahoma average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Canadian County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Canadian 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	3.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	3.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.6%	3.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.7%	3.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.5%	3.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	94.7%	3.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	94.9%	3.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	94.6%	3.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	94.2%	3.6%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	4.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	94.2%	4.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	92.7%	5.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.5%	7.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.9%	8.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.7%	9.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	10.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Canadian County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 7.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Canadian County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Canadian County?

The bars show when commuters in Canadian 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 Canadian County4.3% Oklahoma5.3%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Canadian County3.1% Oklahoma3.7%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Canadian County4.2% Oklahoma4.8%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Canadian County10.6% Oklahoma8.5%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Canadian County11.3% Oklahoma10.0%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Canadian County17.4% Oklahoma15.2%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Canadian County12.3% Oklahoma14.5%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Canadian County11.1% Oklahoma10.7%	11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Canadian County4.2% Oklahoma4.8%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Canadian County4.8% Oklahoma5.7%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Canadian County2.8% Oklahoma2.7%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Canadian County1.4% Oklahoma1.2%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Canadian County6.3% Oklahoma6.2%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Canadian County6.2% Oklahoma6.6%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Canadian County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 52.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Canadian 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 Canadian 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 Canadian 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.

• Canadian County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Canadian County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Canadian County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Oklahoma followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Canadian County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Canadian County's commute time compare?

Metric	Canadian County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	10.4%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Canadian County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau