Muskogee Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Muskogee, 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 Muskogee: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Muskogee spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 126 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Muskogee holds about 0.8% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Muskogee would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,566 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)
Muskogee	15.2 min	30.3 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,915	1,591
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.

Muskogee Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Muskogee. That's 32% 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 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Muskogee

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Muskogee: 7.4 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Muskogee, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Muskogee 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	3.1%	0.4%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2010	94.5%	2.6%	0.3%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2011	93.8%	2.9%	0.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2012	92.5%	3.1%	0.4%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%
2013	92.1%	3.2%	0.6%	2.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	1.2%
2014	91.9%	3.5%	0.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	1.0%
2015	91.4%	3.3%	1.2%	2.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.8%
2016	91.5%	3.2%	1.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%
2017	91.4%	3.1%	1.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	91.3%	3.5%	1.3%	2.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	91.4%	3.1%	1.5%	2.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	91.1%	3.7%	1.4%	2.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	90.3%	4.8%	1.5%	1.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.5%	5.5%	1.4%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	89.7%	6.2%	1.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	88.5%	7.8%	1.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Muskogee: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Muskogee

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Muskogee?

The bars show when commuters in Muskogee 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Muskogee is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Oklahoma: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Muskogee, 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 Muskogee 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 Muskogee 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	Muskogee	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Muskogee were on the road by 7:31 AM, 14 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 Muskogee now leave 7 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 Muskogee has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Muskogee in the whole series.

How does Muskogee's commute time compare?

Metric	Muskogee	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	7.8%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Muskogee is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Muskogee, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 126 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,915 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Muskogee, Oklahoma?

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