Cherokee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cherokee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cherokee County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 4% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Cherokee County holds about 1.2% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cherokee County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,885 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)
Cherokee County	18.2 min	36.5 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,713	929
Oklahoma	19.0 min	37.9 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,900	941
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Cherokee County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.1% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 87.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Cherokee County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

How does Cherokee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cherokee County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	19.0 min	22.5 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	7.1%	8.5%	13.4%
Walked	3.5%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Cherokee County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.7% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau