Lawton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lawton, 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 Lawton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawton spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Lawton holds about 1.9% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawton would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,551 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)
Lawton	15.0 min	30.0 min	125 hrs/yr	$3,877	2,329
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.

Lawton Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Lawton. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawton

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Lawton: 3.4 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lawton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lawton 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	90.6%	3.0%	2.6%	1.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	90.1%	3.0%	2.8%	1.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	88.5%	3.9%	3.1%	2.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	88.3%	3.8%	3.6%	2.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	87.8%	4.5%	3.3%	2.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	87.4%	4.5%	3.4%	2.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	87.9%	4.9%	3.4%	2.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	87.4%	5.6%	3.2%	1.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2017	87.4%	6.2%	3.0%	1.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	87.5%	6.7%	2.9%	0.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	86.1%	7.7%	2.6%	1.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	86.4%	8.0%	1.9%	1.2%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	85.9%	8.9%	2.2%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	85.8%	9.5%	1.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	9.5%	2.4%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	84.4%	9.9%	2.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 84.4% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lawton: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lawton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawton?

The bars show when commuters in Lawton 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawton is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 41.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Lawton, 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 Lawton 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 Lawton 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	Lawton	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawton were on the road by 7:28 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lawton now leave 10 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 Lawton has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lawton in the whole series.

How does Lawton's commute time compare?

Metric	Lawton	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lawton is 15.0 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lawton, Oklahoma.

Is commuting expensive in Lawton, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,877 at a typical national wage. That's 21% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Lawton, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lawton, Oklahoma. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.