Woodward County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Woodward County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Woodward County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Oklahoma average of 19.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Woodward County holds about 0.5% of Oklahoma's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Woodward County would save about 47 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,442 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)
Woodward County	14.0 min	27.9 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,605	200
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 14.0 minutes to get to work in Woodward County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 83% 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 2.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Woodward County

• Car: 93.3%
• Worked at Home: 2.3% unusually low
• Other: 1.8%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Woodward County: 3.8 times more than the Oklahoma average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Woodward County: 4.1 times less than the Oklahoma average (2.3% vs 9.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in Woodward County, versus 0.2% in Oklahoma.

Commute Mode Trends in Woodward County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Woodward 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
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.9%	2.7%	1.6%	3.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	2.5%	1.4%	3.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	1.8%	2.0%	3.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	1.6%	1.7%	3.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	1.8%	2.1%	1.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	94.2%	1.7%	1.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	1.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	93.5%	2.4%	1.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	2.6%	0.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	2.5%	0.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	3.2%	0.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	93.6%	2.7%	1.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	94.9%	2.7%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.7%	2.2%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	2.9%	1.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	93.3%	2.3%	1.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 95.1% and lowest in 2011 at 91.8%. Overall it rose from 91.9% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.3% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Woodward County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Woodward County?

The bars show when commuters in Woodward 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 Woodward County5.7% Oklahoma5.3%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Woodward County4.3% Oklahoma3.7%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Woodward County5.9% Oklahoma4.8%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Woodward County6.8% Oklahoma8.5%	6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Woodward County12.2% Oklahoma10.0%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Woodward County15.0% Oklahoma15.2%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Woodward County17.2% Oklahoma14.5%	17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Woodward County8.4% Oklahoma10.7%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Woodward County4.9% Oklahoma4.8%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Woodward County5.6% Oklahoma5.7%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Woodward County0.7% Oklahoma2.7%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Woodward County0.0% Oklahoma1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Woodward County6.0% Oklahoma6.2%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Woodward County7.3% Oklahoma6.6%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Woodward County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Oklahoma. Early starts are more common than in Oklahoma: 15.9% 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 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Woodward 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 Woodward 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 Woodward 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.

• Woodward County
• Oklahoma
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Woodward County	Oklahoma	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Woodward County were on the road by 7:30 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Oklahoma, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Woodward County now leave 8 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 Woodward County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Woodward County's commute time compare?

Metric	Woodward County	Oklahoma	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	14.0 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	2.3%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Woodward County is 14.0 minutes, shorter than the 19.0 minutes in Oklahoma.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Oklahoma. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Oklahoma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau