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Okmulgee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Okmulgee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Okmulgee County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Okmulgee County holds about 0.9% of Oklahoma's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Okmulgee County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,939 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)
Okmulgee County 18.8 min 37.5 min 156 hrs/yr $4,847 508
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

Okmulgee County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Okmulgee County. That's 16% 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 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Okmulgee County

  • Car: 89.7%
  • Worked at Home: 8.4%
  • Walked: 0.9%
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Taxi: 0.1%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Okmulgee County: 3.5 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Okmulgee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Okmulgee 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 Taxi Bicycle Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 92.2% 3.6% 2.4% 1.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 92.6% 3.2% 2.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 91.5% 4.0% 2.8% 1.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 92.2% 3.5% 2.6% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 91.7% 3.4% 3.3% 1.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
2014 92.5% 3.3% 3.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
2015 92.1% 3.2% 3.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 92.3% 2.7% 3.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3%
2017 92.2% 2.9% 3.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4%
2018 92.1% 3.1% 3.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.5%
2019 92.0% 3.4% 2.8% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.5%
2020 90.8% 5.1% 2.3% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
2021 90.3% 6.1% 2.3% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2022 89.9% 6.6% 1.8% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
2023 89.3% 8.3% 1.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0%
2024 89.7% 8.4% 0.9% 0.8% 0.1% 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 was highest in 2010 at 92.6% and lowest in 2023 at 89.3%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Okmulgee County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Okmulgee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Okmulgee County?

The bars show when commuters in Okmulgee 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
5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Okmulgee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee County Oklahoma United States
2009 7:33 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:35 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:34 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:31 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:21 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:28 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:30 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:32 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Okmulgee County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Oklahoma the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Okmulgee County now leave 6 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 Okmulgee County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Okmulgee County's commute time compare?

Metric Okmulgee County Oklahoma US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.8 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 8.4% 9.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.9% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Okmulgee County is about the same as in Oklahoma.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Okmulgee County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Okmulgee County, OK is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 36,895 residents against a local median of 72,818. The measure that sets Okmulgee County, OK apart most is work from home: 8.4%, 17% below the local median of 10.1%.

The counties themselves spread 3.3% on work from home, so Okmulgee County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Okmulgee County, OK has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Okmulgee County, OK 36,895 18.8 min #3/6 8.4% #5/6 7:32 AM #5/6
Okfuskee County, OK 11,277 18.5 min 8.2% 7:29 AM
McIntosh County, OK 19,400 21.7 min 11.3% 7:27 AM
Tulsa County, OK 680,925 18.6 min 11.5% 7:43 AM
Creek County, OK 72,818 24.0 min 10.1% 7:18 AM
Wagoner County, OK 86,605 25.4 min 9.2% 7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 156 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,847 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee 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).