Del City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Del City, 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 Del City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Del City spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Del City holds about 0.5% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Del City would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,928 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)
Del City	18.7 min	37.3 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,820	2,055
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.

Del City Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.7 minutes to get to work in Del City. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Del City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Del City: 3.8 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Del City: 3.6 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually common in Del City: 7.2 times more than the Oklahoma average (1.5% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Del City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Del City 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	Bicycle	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation
2009	95.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	95.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	95.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.8%	1.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	95.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%	2.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%
2014	95.1%	1.4%	0.1%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	94.0%	2.3%	0.1%	1.0%	2.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	93.7%	2.9%	0.2%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	93.4%	3.2%	0.2%	0.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	92.0%	4.2%	0.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	92.9%	4.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%
2020	92.4%	4.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%
2021	91.7%	4.2%	1.0%	1.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%
2022	90.4%	5.4%	1.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.6%
2023	88.4%	7.4%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%
2024	86.6%	8.6%	1.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, down 9.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Del City: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Biking overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Del City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Del City?

The bars show when commuters in Del City 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		5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

Del City Oklahoma Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Del City is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 45.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.5%) 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 Del City, 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 Del City 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 Del City 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	Del City	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Del City were on the road by 7:29 AM, 14 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 Del City now leave 9 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 Del City has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Del City in the whole series.

How does Del City's commute time compare?

Metric	Del City	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.7 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.6%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Del City is about the same as in Oklahoma.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Del City, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Del City, OK compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Del City, OK	20,238	18.7 min #1/3	8.6% #3/3	7:29 AM #1/3
Midwest City, OK	54,029	21.2 min	10.6%	7:33 AM
Oklahoma City, OK	704,597	21.0 min	10.8%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Del City, Oklahoma.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Del City, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,820 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Del City, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Del City, Oklahoma. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.