Noble County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Noble County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Noble County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Noble County holds about 0.3% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Noble County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,606 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)
Noble County	15.5 min	31.1 min	130 hrs/yr	$4,015	667
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

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On average, it takes 15.5 minutes to get to work in Noble County. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Oklahoma

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 5.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Noble County

• Car: 93.0%
• Worked at Home: 5.0%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Noble County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Public transit is unusually rare in Noble County: 12.6 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Noble County, versus 0.1% in Oklahoma.

Biking is essentially absent in Noble County, versus 0.2% in Oklahoma.

Commute Mode Trends in Noble County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Noble 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.6%	2.4%	2.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%
2010	93.7%	2.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%
2011	93.0%	3.4%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2012	93.6%	3.0%	2.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2013	94.3%	3.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	3.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	3.3%	2.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	4.0%	2.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	4.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	4.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.7%	3.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	4.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.2%	3.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.6%	3.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	4.6%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.0%	5.0%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 95.2% and lowest in 2016 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 93.6% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Noble County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Noble County

• 🌅 Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Oklahoma's 77 counties: 25.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Noble County?

The bars show when commuters in Noble 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 Noble County4.2% Oklahoma5.3%	4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Noble County6.0% Oklahoma3.7%	6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Noble County14.9% Oklahoma4.8%	14.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Noble County7.1% Oklahoma8.5%	7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Noble County7.5% Oklahoma10.0%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Noble County18.3% Oklahoma15.2%	18.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Noble County19.4% Oklahoma14.5%	19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Noble County6.4% Oklahoma10.7%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Noble County1.0% Oklahoma4.8%	1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Noble County5.5% Oklahoma5.7%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Noble County0.6% Oklahoma2.7%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Noble County0.0% Oklahoma1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Noble County5.0% Oklahoma6.2%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Noble County3.9% Oklahoma6.6%	3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Noble County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 25.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 51.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.0%) 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 Noble 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 Noble 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 Noble 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.

• Noble County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Noble County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Noble County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Oklahoma followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Noble County now leave 21 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 Noble County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Noble County's commute time compare?

Metric	Noble County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.5 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	5.0%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Noble County is 15.5 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.0% 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