Grant County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant 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 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Grant County holds about 0.1% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,225 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)
Grant County	21.5 min	43.1 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,564	286
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

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On average, it takes 21.5 minutes to get to work in Grant County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% of counties in Oklahoma

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 Grant County

• Car: 88.0%
• Worked at Home: 8.6%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Grant County: 4.5 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant 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
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.7%	4.9%	1.4%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.0%	4.5%	1.7%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.2%	3.4%	1.6%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	90.5%	3.1%	1.0%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	92.5%	2.5%	0.6%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	92.0%	3.2%	0.6%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	91.8%	3.3%	0.3%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2016	92.0%	3.2%	0.2%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	2.5%	0.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	93.1%	3.5%	0.3%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.6%	2.6%	0.3%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	5.4%	0.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	92.3%	6.4%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	5.2%	2.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.6%	8.2%	2.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.0%	8.6%	2.0%	1.3%	0.1%	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 2017 at 93.5% and lowest in 2023 at 87.6%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 88.0% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grant County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 1.3% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Grant County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?

The bars show when commuters in Grant 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 Grant County7.5% Oklahoma5.3%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grant County1.6% Oklahoma3.7%	1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grant County6.7% Oklahoma4.8%	6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grant County8.2% Oklahoma8.5%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grant County8.6% Oklahoma10.0%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grant County16.4% Oklahoma15.2%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grant County18.0% Oklahoma14.5%	18.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grant County16.2% Oklahoma10.7%	16.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grant County1.2% Oklahoma4.8%	1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grant County2.7% Oklahoma5.7%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grant County0.8% Oklahoma2.7%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grant County0.8% Oklahoma1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grant County6.6% Oklahoma6.2%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grant County4.5% Oklahoma6.6%	4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 59.2% 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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.

• Grant County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grant County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Oklahoma the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Grant County now leave 6 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 Grant County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Grant County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grant County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 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	1.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grant County is 21.5 minutes, longer 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