Cotton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cotton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cotton County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 60% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 11.4 minutes.

Cotton County holds about 0.1% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cotton County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,143 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)
Cotton County	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,857	410
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.

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On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Cotton County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county 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 3.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cotton County

• Car: 92.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.5%
• Other: 3.0%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Cotton County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Public transit is essentially absent in Cotton County, versus 0.3% in Oklahoma.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Cotton County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Biking is essentially absent in Cotton County, versus 0.2% in Oklahoma.

Few people walk or bike to work in Cotton County: just 0.6%, 3.1 times below the Oklahoma average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cotton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cotton 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	2.2%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	96.4%	2.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	95.4%	2.3%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	2.6%	1.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	94.4%	3.0%	1.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	3.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	4.6%	0.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.7%	4.5%	0.7%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.1%	4.0%	0.6%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	92.1%	4.9%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	92.6%	4.5%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	92.6%	3.1%	2.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	92.2%	3.8%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2022	92.7%	4.0%	2.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.3%	4.3%	2.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.9%	3.5%	3.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 96.4% and lowest in 2017 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 92.9% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cotton County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 3.5% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 4.9% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 3.5%.

Commute Start Times in Cotton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cotton County?

The bars show when commuters in Cotton 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 Cotton County5.4% Oklahoma5.3%	5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cotton County3.9% Oklahoma3.7%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cotton County4.5% Oklahoma4.8%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cotton County9.0% Oklahoma8.5%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cotton County9.5% Oklahoma10.0%	9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cotton County11.2% Oklahoma15.2%	11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cotton County25.8% Oklahoma14.5%	25.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cotton County12.5% Oklahoma10.7%	12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cotton County2.6% Oklahoma4.8%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cotton County4.4% Oklahoma5.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cotton County1.9% Oklahoma2.7%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cotton County1.9% Oklahoma1.2%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cotton County4.2% Oklahoma6.2%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cotton County3.2% Oklahoma6.6%	3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cotton County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 25.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 59.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.6%) 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 Cotton 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 Cotton 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 Cotton 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cotton County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cotton County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Oklahoma, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cotton County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Cotton County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Cotton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cotton County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	3.5%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cotton County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.0% 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