Wagoner County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wagoner County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wagoner County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Wagoner County holds about 2.1% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 2.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wagoner County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,625 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)
Wagoner County	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,563	1,624
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.

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On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Wagoner County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 93% of counties in Oklahoma

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wagoner County

• Car: 89.0%
• Worked at Home: 9.2%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Biking is unusually rare in Wagoner County: 6.6 times less than the Oklahoma average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wagoner County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wagoner 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
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.2%	4.3%	0.7%	2.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.3%	4.4%	0.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.4%	3.7%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.7%	3.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.8%	3.4%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.8%	3.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.8%	3.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.1%	3.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.9%	3.9%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	3.5%	0.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.6%	3.4%	0.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.0%	5.0%	0.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.7%	6.1%	0.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.1%	7.0%	0.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	88.6%	9.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.0%	9.2%	0.8%	0.7%	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 2013 at 94.8% and lowest in 2023 at 88.6%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 89.0% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wagoner County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 9.2% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Wagoner County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wagoner County?

The bars show when commuters in Wagoner 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 Wagoner County5.9% Oklahoma5.3%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wagoner County4.3% Oklahoma3.7%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wagoner County4.9% Oklahoma4.8%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wagoner County9.9% Oklahoma8.5%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wagoner County11.5% Oklahoma10.0%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wagoner County17.1% Oklahoma15.2%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wagoner County12.8% Oklahoma14.5%	12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wagoner County10.3% Oklahoma10.7%	10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wagoner County4.6% Oklahoma4.8%	4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wagoner County4.4% Oklahoma5.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wagoner County1.8% Oklahoma2.7%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wagoner County0.8% Oklahoma1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wagoner County4.9% Oklahoma6.2%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wagoner County6.7% Oklahoma6.6%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wagoner County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.2% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 15.2% 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 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Wagoner 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 Wagoner 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 Wagoner 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.

• Wagoner County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wagoner County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wagoner County were on the road by 7:24 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Oklahoma, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Wagoner County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wagoner County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wagoner County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.2%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wagoner County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau