Kiowa County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kiowa 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 Kiowa County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kiowa 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 2% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Kiowa County holds about 0.2% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kiowa County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,915 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)
Kiowa County	18.5 min	37.1 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,788	200
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

Kiowa County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Kiowa County. That's 17% 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 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kiowa County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Kiowa County: 6.2 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Kiowa County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kiowa 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.7%	6.2%	0.4%	3.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.0%	8.2%	0.1%	5.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	87.5%	6.8%	0.7%	4.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	86.1%	7.8%	0.6%	3.5%	0.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	87.4%	7.7%	1.0%	2.2%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	89.7%	6.5%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	90.8%	6.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.0%	6.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	92.3%	5.0%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.0%	5.2%	1.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.4%	5.3%	1.0%	2.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.7%	7.4%	0.8%	1.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.9%	5.4%	0.6%	2.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.5%	7.3%	0.7%	1.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.0%	7.2%	1.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.9%	8.6%	2.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.3%	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 92.3% and lowest in 2010 at 86.0%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kiowa County: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.6% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Kiowa County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kiowa County?

The bars show when commuters in Kiowa 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kiowa County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 54.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Kiowa 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 Kiowa 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 Kiowa 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	Kiowa County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kiowa County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Kiowa County now leave 14 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 Kiowa County has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Kiowa County in the whole series.

How does Kiowa County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kiowa 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	8.6%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kiowa County is about the same as in Oklahoma.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Oklahoma. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kiowa County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Kiowa County, OK is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,382 residents against a local median of 10,815. Kiowa County, OK's work from home, at 8.6%, runs 27% above the 6.8% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.9% on work from home, so Kiowa County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Kiowa County, OK has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Kiowa County, OK	8,382	18.5 min #6/6	8.6% #2/6	7:24 AM #1/6
Washita County, OK	10,815	18.3 min	7.1%	7:25 AM
Jackson County, OK	24,678	11.1 min	5.4%	7:42 AM
Tillman County, OK	6,910	17.4 min	5.8%	7:26 AM
Comanche County, OK	121,825	16.4 min	10.3%	7:24 AM
Greer County, OK	5,488	11.7 min	6.8%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kiowa County, Oklahoma.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,788 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Kiowa County, Oklahoma?

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma?

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).