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Murray County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Murray 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 Murray County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Murray County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Murray County holds about 0.3% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Murray County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,742 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)
Murray County 16.9 min 33.7 min 141 hrs/yr $4,356 491
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
  1. Cimarron County (4.8 min)
  2. Woods County (8.5 min)
  3. Harmon County (8.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma
  1. Cotton County (30.4 min)
  2. Logan County (28.5 min)
  3. Lincoln County (28.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Murray County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in Murray County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Murray County

  • Car: 92.3%
  • Worked at Home: 3.9%
  • Walked: 1.7%
  • Other: 1.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Taxi: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Murray County, versus 0.3% in Oklahoma.

Commute Mode Trends in Murray County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Murray 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 Walked Other Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle Public Transportation
2009 93.4% 5.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 95.2% 4.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 95.3% 4.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 93.6% 4.3% 1.3% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2013 93.0% 4.2% 2.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 93.8% 3.7% 2.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 93.9% 3.1% 2.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 94.2% 2.7% 2.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 94.0% 2.5% 3.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 93.4% 3.4% 3.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 93.3% 3.0% 3.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 95.2% 2.6% 2.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 93.9% 2.9% 2.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 95.9% 2.2% 1.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 94.5% 3.0% 1.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 92.3% 3.9% 1.7% 1.3% 0.4% 0.3% 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 2022 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Murray County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 1.7% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 3.9% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.5% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Murray County

  • Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Oklahoma's 77 counties: 25.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Murray County?

The bars show when commuters in Murray 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
10.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Murray County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 25.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray County Oklahoma United States
2009 7:41 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:39 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:37 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:37 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:36 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:35 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:33 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:37 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:29 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:20 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:18 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:20 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Murray County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 21 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Murray County now leave 18 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 Murray County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Murray County's commute time compare?

Metric Murray County Oklahoma US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.9 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 3.9% 9.4% 15.0%
Walked 1.7% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Murray County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Murray County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Murray County, OK is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,753 residents against a local median of 25,859. The measure that sets Murray County, OK apart most is work from home: 3.9%, 33% below the local median of 5.8%.

The counties themselves spread 3.8% on work from home, so Murray County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Murray County, OK has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Murray County, OK 13,753 16.9 min #3/6 3.9% #6/6 7:20 AM #3/6
Carter County, OK 48,553 16.5 min 5.0% 7:34 AM
Garvin County, OK 25,859 18.5 min 6.8% 7:23 AM
Johnston County, OK 10,278 21.5 min 5.8% 7:15 AM
Pontotoc County, OK 38,234 15.4 min 4.2% 7:47 AM
Marshall County, OK 15,792 20.2 min 7.9% 7:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Murray County, Oklahoma.

Is living in Murray County, Oklahoma good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 141 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,356 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Murray County, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Murray County, Oklahoma. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Murray County, Oklahoma?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Oklahoma, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Oklahoma have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).