Sequoyah County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sequoyah County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sequoyah County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,277 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)
Sequoyah County	22.0 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,693	1,065
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

Sequoyah County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Sequoyah County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Oklahoma

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sequoyah County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sequoyah County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sequoyah 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.4%	4.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	5.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	5.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.7%	4.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	3.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.4%	3.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	2.1%	1.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.6%	2.2%	1.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.3%	2.1%	1.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.9%	2.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	2.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.9%	2.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.1%	3.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	4.2%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	4.5%	2.1%	0.9%	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 peaked in 2019 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, down 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Sequoyah County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 2.1% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Sequoyah County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sequoyah County?

The bars show when commuters in Sequoyah 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		5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sequoyah County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oklahoma: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah 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	Sequoyah County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sequoyah County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). The shift is sharper than across Oklahoma, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Sequoyah County in the whole series.

How does Sequoyah County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sequoyah County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sequoyah County is 22.0 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sequoyah County, OK Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sequoyah County, OK is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 39,855 residents against a local median of 47,942. The measure that sets Sequoyah County, OK apart most is work from home: 4.5%, 41% below the local median of 7.6%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.0 min against a local median of 18.2 min, 21% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% above the local median it puts Sequoyah County, OK at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.6% on work from home, so Sequoyah County, OK sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sequoyah 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
Sequoyah County, OK	39,855	22.0 min #6/6	4.5% #5/6	7:17 AM #2/6
Adair County, OK	19,571	18.6 min	3.3%	7:12 AM
Haskell County, OK	11,682	18.2 min	7.8%	7:26 AM
Cherokee County, OK	47,942	17.7 min	7.8%	7:34 AM
Crawford County, AR	61,139	21.7 min	6.3%	7:17 AM
Sebastian County, AR	128,900	17.0 min	7.6%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,693 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical Oklahoma commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 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).