Oklahoma County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oklahoma County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Oklahoma County holds about 20.0% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 21.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oklahoma County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,149 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)
Oklahoma County	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,372	1,905
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

Cimarron County (4.8 min)
Woods County (8.5 min)
Harmon County (8.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma

Cotton County (30.4 min)
Logan County (28.5 min)
Lincoln County (28.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Oklahoma County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Oklahoma County. That's 7% 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 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oklahoma County

Commute Mode Trends in Oklahoma County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oklahoma 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	3.2%	1.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.2%	3.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	93.2%	3.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	93.2%	3.3%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	93.2%	3.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	93.2%	3.4%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	93.2%	3.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	93.2%	3.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.1%	3.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.6%	3.9%	1.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.6%	3.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.3%	5.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.5%	6.8%	1.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	8.2%	1.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	86.9%	9.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	85.6%	10.8%	1.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oklahoma County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Oklahoma County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oklahoma County?

The bars show when commuters in Oklahoma 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		4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oklahoma County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are less common than in Oklahoma: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.7%) 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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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	Oklahoma County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oklahoma County were on the road by 7:45 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Oklahoma, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Oklahoma County now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Oklahoma County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Oklahoma County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oklahoma County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	10.8%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oklahoma County is 20.8 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oklahoma County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Oklahoma County, OK is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 805,901 residents against a local median of 51,938. Where Oklahoma County, OK breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 22% below the local median of 26.8 min at 20.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 10.0 min on one-way commute, so Oklahoma County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Oklahoma County, OK has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Oklahoma County, OK	805,901	20.8 min #2/6	10.8% #2/6	7:45 AM #6/6
Cleveland County, OK	300,046	21.4 min	11.4%	7:39 AM
Logan County, OK	51,938	28.5 min	10.5%	7:23 AM
McClain County, OK	45,273	26.8 min	9.6%	7:17 AM
Lincoln County, OK	34,218	28.0 min	10.4%	7:17 AM
Pottawatomie County, OK	73,462	18.6 min	8.4%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,372 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Oklahoma 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Oklahoma?

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).