Cleveland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cleveland 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 Cleveland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cleveland County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Cleveland County holds about 7.4% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 8.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cleveland County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,207 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)
Cleveland County	21.4 min	42.7 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,518	1,976
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

Cimarron County (4.8 min)
Woods County (8.5 min)
Harmon County (8.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma

Cotton County (30.4 min)
Logan County (28.5 min)
Lincoln County (28.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Cleveland County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.4 minutes to get to work in Cleveland County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% 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 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cleveland County

Commute Mode Trends in Cleveland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cleveland 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.8%	2.8%	2.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	93.0%	2.9%	1.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	93.1%	2.9%	2.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	92.9%	2.9%	1.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	93.2%	2.8%	1.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	92.7%	3.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	92.8%	3.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	92.9%	3.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.1%	3.1%	1.7%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.5%	3.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.2%	3.6%	2.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	90.4%	5.5%	2.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	88.5%	7.2%	2.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	86.6%	8.9%	2.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.4%	10.0%	2.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.3%	11.4%	2.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 8.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cleveland County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Cleveland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cleveland County?

The bars show when commuters in Cleveland 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cleveland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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	Cleveland County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cleveland County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cleveland County now leave 1 minute 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 Cleveland County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Cleveland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cleveland County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.4 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	11.4%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cleveland County is 21.4 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Oklahoma. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cleveland County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cleveland County, OK is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 300,046 residents against a local median of 56,605. Cleveland County, OK's work from home, at 11.4%, runs 35% above the 8.4% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.0% on work from home, so Cleveland County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cleveland County, OK has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cleveland County, OK	300,046	21.4 min #4/6	11.4% #1/6	7:39 AM #5/6
McClain County, OK	45,273	26.8 min	9.6%	7:17 AM
Oklahoma County, OK	805,901	20.8 min	10.8%	7:45 AM
Pottawatomie County, OK	73,462	18.6 min	8.4%	7:28 AM
Garvin County, OK	25,859	18.5 min	6.8%	7:23 AM
Grady County, OK	56,605	23.3 min	7.5%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Cleveland County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 178 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,518 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Cleveland County, Oklahoma?

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

Which counties in Oklahoma have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).