Le Flore County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Le Flore County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Le Flore County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Le Flore County holds about 1.2% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Le Flore County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,097 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)
Le Flore County	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,244	919
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.

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On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Le Flore County. That's 9% 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 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Le Flore County

• Car: 92.0%
• Worked at Home: 5.4%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Le Flore County: 3.8 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Le Flore County: 8.1 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Le Flore County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Le Flore 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.8%	3.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.3%	2.7%	1.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	3.2%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	92.7%	3.5%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	92.7%	3.3%	2.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	92.9%	3.1%	1.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	2.8%	2.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	2.5%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.0%	2.3%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.1%	2.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	2.2%	1.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.9%	2.8%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	3.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	93.7%	4.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.3%	5.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	92.0%	5.4%	1.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 95.3%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 92.0% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Le Flore County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Le Flore County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Le Flore County?

The bars show when commuters in Le Flore 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 Le Flore County6.8% Oklahoma5.3%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Le Flore County5.0% Oklahoma3.7%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Le Flore County3.6% Oklahoma4.8%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Le Flore County9.7% Oklahoma8.5%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Le Flore County10.9% Oklahoma10.0%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Le Flore County17.2% Oklahoma15.2%	17.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Le Flore County14.5% Oklahoma14.5%	14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Le Flore County8.6% Oklahoma10.7%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Le Flore County2.4% Oklahoma4.8%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Le Flore County3.8% Oklahoma5.7%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Le Flore County2.6% Oklahoma2.7%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Le Flore County1.3% Oklahoma1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Le Flore County7.8% Oklahoma6.2%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Le Flore County6.1% Oklahoma6.6%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Le Flore County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 51.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Le Flore 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 Le Flore 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 Le Flore 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Le Flore County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Le Flore County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Le Flore County now leave 13 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 Le Flore County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Le Flore County's commute time compare?

Metric	Le Flore County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	5.4%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Le Flore County is 20.3 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau