Garvin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: How much does the average commute cost workers in Garvin County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,768 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

Q: When is rush hour worst in Garvin County, Oklahoma?

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

Q: 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).

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Commute Time Burden in Garvin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garvin County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Garvin County holds about 0.6% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Garvin County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,907 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)
Garvin County	18.5 min	36.9 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,768	562
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

Garvin County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Garvin County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garvin County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Garvin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garvin 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	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.1%	4.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.9%	4.7%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	92.0%	5.0%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.1%	4.0%	2.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.6%	4.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	3.5%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.8%	3.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	94.8%	3.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	95.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	94.6%	3.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	94.4%	4.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	93.8%	4.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	5.9%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	7.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	7.2%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	6.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2017 at 95.4% and lowest in 2023 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Garvin County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.5% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Garvin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garvin County?

The bars show when commuters in Garvin 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		8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garvin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 51.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Garvin 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 Garvin 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 Garvin 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	Garvin County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garvin County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Oklahoma followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Garvin County now leave 15 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 Garvin County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Garvin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Garvin County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 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	6.8%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garvin County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Garvin County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Garvin County, OK is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 25,859 residents against a local median of 45,273. The measure that sets Garvin County, OK apart most is work from home: 6.8%, 21% above the local median of 5.6%.

The counties themselves spread 7.5% on work from home, so Garvin County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Garvin County, OK has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Garvin County, OK	25,859	18.5 min #4/6	6.8% #3/6	7:23 AM #3/6
Murray County, OK	13,753	16.9 min	3.9%	7:20 AM
McClain County, OK	45,273	26.8 min	9.6%	7:17 AM
Carter County, OK	48,553	16.5 min	5.0%	7:34 AM
Cleveland County, OK	300,046	21.4 min	11.4%	7:39 AM
Stephens County, OK	43,550	16.9 min	5.6%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Garvin County, Oklahoma.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Garvin County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,768 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Garvin County, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Garvin 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).