Commuting in Carter 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 Carter County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Carter County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.
Carter County holds about 1.2% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Carter County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,700 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)
Carter County
16.5 min
32.9 min
137 hrs/yr
$4,251
654
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.
On average, it takes
16.5
minutes to get to work in
Carter County.
That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 72% of counties in Oklahoma
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.0% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Carter County
Car:
91.0%
Worked at Home:
5.0%
Walked:
1.6%
Other:
1.4%
Public Transportation:
0.6%
Bicycle:
0.3%
Motorcycle:
0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Carter County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.
Commute Mode Trends in Carter County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Carter 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
Other
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
91.5%
4.6%
2.3%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
2010
90.7%
4.5%
3.0%
0.9%
0.4%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
2011
91.5%
4.0%
2.3%
0.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
2012
92.1%
3.6%
2.3%
1.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2013
91.8%
4.0%
2.0%
1.3%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2014
92.8%
3.5%
1.9%
0.7%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
94.1%
3.0%
1.5%
0.6%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
93.9%
3.1%
1.6%
0.6%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
93.9%
3.0%
1.6%
0.8%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2018
94.3%
2.8%
1.5%
0.9%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2019
94.5%
2.4%
1.7%
0.9%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2020
93.8%
2.8%
1.6%
1.2%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
93.3%
3.1%
1.4%
1.6%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
92.9%
3.4%
1.4%
1.6%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
91.6%
4.2%
1.7%
1.5%
0.5%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2024
91.0%
5.0%
1.6%
1.4%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 94.5% and lowest in 2010 at 90.7%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.6% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).
Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Carter County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carter County?
The bars show when commuters in Carter 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 AMCarter County5.6%Oklahoma5.3%
5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMCarter County4.1%Oklahoma3.7%
4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMCarter County6.6%Oklahoma4.8%
6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMCarter County9.9%Oklahoma8.5%
9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMCarter County10.3%Oklahoma10.0%
10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMCarter County11.7%Oklahoma15.2%
11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMCarter County13.2%Oklahoma14.5%
13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMCarter County11.8%Oklahoma10.7%
11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMCarter County3.9%Oklahoma4.8%
3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMCarter County4.6%Oklahoma5.7%
4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMCarter County2.0%Oklahoma2.7%
2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMCarter County1.0%Oklahoma1.2%
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMCarter County5.8%Oklahoma6.2%
5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMCarter County9.5%Oklahoma6.6%
9.5%
Carter CountyOklahomaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Carter County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 46.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Carter 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 Carter 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 Carter 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
Carter County
Oklahoma
United States
2009
7:43 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:43 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:40 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:39 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
7:31 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:30 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:25 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:32 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:29 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:32 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:33 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:34 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Carter County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carter County now leave 4 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 Carter County has moved 9 minutes later.
How does Carter County's commute time compare?
Metric
Carter County
Oklahoma
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
16.5 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
5.0%
9.4%
15.0%
Walked
1.6%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.6%
0.3%
3.2%
The average commute time in Carter County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.
0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.
Carter County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Carter County, OK is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 48,553 residents against a local median of 13,753. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Carter County, OK an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.
The largest of those small differences is work from home, 12% below the local median at 5.0% against 5.7%. Carter County, OK has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Carter County, Oklahoma.
Is commuting expensive in Carter County, Oklahoma?
Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,251 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Carter County, Oklahoma?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Carter County, Oklahoma. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 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).