Washington County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Washington County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Washington County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 128 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Washington County holds about 1.3% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Washington County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,588 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)
Washington County	15.4 min	30.7 min	128 hrs/yr	$3,969	713
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

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On average, it takes 15.4 minutes to get to work in Washington County. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Oklahoma

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 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Washington County

• Car: 88.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 1.0%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Washington County: 4.0 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Washington County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Washington 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
• Bicycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.0%	2.7%	2.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	93.8%	2.3%	2.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	93.6%	2.6%	1.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%
2012	93.8%	2.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	94.1%	2.2%	2.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	3.1%	2.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	3.3%	2.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	3.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	3.8%	2.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	3.7%	1.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	92.5%	4.1%	1.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	92.3%	4.5%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	5.2%	1.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	6.6%	1.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	7.6%	1.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Washington County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Washington County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Washington County?

The bars show when commuters in Washington 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 Washington County5.9% Oklahoma5.3%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Washington County2.6% Oklahoma3.7%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Washington County5.4% Oklahoma4.8%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Washington County7.6% Oklahoma8.5%	7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Washington County10.2% Oklahoma10.0%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Washington County14.3% Oklahoma15.2%	14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Washington County16.7% Oklahoma14.5%	16.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Washington County10.8% Oklahoma10.7%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Washington County4.8% Oklahoma4.8%	4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Washington County5.3% Oklahoma5.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Washington County2.8% Oklahoma2.7%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Washington County0.4% Oklahoma1.2%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Washington County7.1% Oklahoma6.2%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Washington County6.2% Oklahoma6.6%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Washington County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are about as common as in Oklahoma: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Oklahoma's: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington 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.

• Washington County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Washington County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Washington County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Oklahoma followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Washington County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Washington County's commute time compare?

Metric	Washington County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.4 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	7.6%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Washington County is 15.4 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Oklahoma. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau