Pittsburg County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pittsburg 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 140 hours, about 5.8 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.

Pittsburg County holds about 1.1% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pittsburg County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,740 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)
Pittsburg County	16.8 min	33.7 min	140 hrs/yr	$4,350	651
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

Pittsburg County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Pittsburg 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 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pittsburg County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pittsburg County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pittsburg 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.2%	3.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.5%	3.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.7%	3.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.6%	4.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.9%	3.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	95.2%	2.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	2.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	95.1%	2.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	95.2%	2.0%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	94.4%	2.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	92.5%	3.8%	2.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	91.3%	5.1%	2.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	90.1%	6.0%	2.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	6.4%	2.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	7.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	6.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 95.2% and lowest in 2021 at 90.1%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pittsburg County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Pittsburg County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pittsburg County?

The bars show when commuters in Pittsburg 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pittsburg County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 52.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg 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	Pittsburg County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pittsburg County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pittsburg County now leave 10 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 Pittsburg County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Pittsburg County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pittsburg County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.8 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	6.9%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pittsburg County is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pittsburg County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pittsburg County, OK is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 43,560 residents against a local median of 13,388. The measure that sets Pittsburg County, OK apart most is one-way commute: 16.8 min, 21% below the local median of 21.4 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 6.9% against a local median of 8.3%, 17% below it. The counties themselves spread 4.7 min on one-way commute, so Pittsburg County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pittsburg County, OK has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pittsburg County, OK	43,560	16.8 min #1/6	6.9% #4/6	7:28 AM #5/6
McIntosh County, OK	19,400	21.7 min	11.3%	7:27 AM
Latimer County, OK	9,517	17.3 min	3.9%	7:22 AM
Hughes County, OK	13,388	21.4 min	13.0%	7:17 AM
Atoka County, OK	14,377	22.0 min	8.3%	7:27 AM
Pushmataha County, OK	10,790	18.7 min	4.9%	7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma?

Commuters here spend an estimated 140 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,350 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma?

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

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).