Midwest City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Midwest City, 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 Midwest City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Midwest City spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Midwest City holds about 1.3% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Midwest City would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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)
Midwest City	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,487	2,063
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.

Midwest City Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Midwest City. That's 5% 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Midwest City

Commute Mode Trends in Midwest City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Midwest City 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	95.1%	1.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	95.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%
2011	95.8%	1.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	96.0%	1.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	96.2%	1.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	96.3%	1.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	96.0%	1.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	96.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	96.3%	1.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.0%	2.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	94.7%	3.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	93.1%	4.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	90.9%	6.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2022	88.3%	8.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2023	89.1%	7.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	86.2%	10.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Midwest City: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Midwest City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Midwest City?

The bars show when commuters in Midwest City 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Midwest City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Midwest City, 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 Midwest City 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 Midwest City 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	Midwest City	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Midwest City were on the road by 7:33 AM, 6 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 Midwest City now leave 5 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 Midwest City has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Midwest City's commute time compare?

Metric	Midwest City	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	10.6%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Midwest City is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Midwest City, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Midwest City, OK compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Midwest City, OK	54,029	21.2 min #2/2	10.6% #1/2	7:33 AM #2/2
Del City, OK	20,238	18.7 min	8.6%	7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Midwest City, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,487 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Midwest City, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Midwest City, 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.