Curry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Curry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Curry County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 107 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Curry County holds about 0.5% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Curry County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,322 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)
Curry County	12.8 min	25.6 min	107 hrs/yr	$3,305	59
Oregon	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,203	967
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 12.8 minutes to get to work in Curry County. That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Oregon

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Curry County

• Car: 77.5%
• Worked at Home: 16.5%
• Walked: 2.6%
• Motorcycle: 1.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Curry County: 10.0 times more than the Oregon average (1.8% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Curry County: 7.5 times less than the Oregon average (0.3% vs 2.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Curry County, versus 0.1% in Oregon.

Biking is unusually rare in Curry County: 10.0 times less than the Oregon average (0.1% vs 1.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Curry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Curry 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
• Motorcycle
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• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	84.0%	9.0%	6.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	84.3%	7.8%	6.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	85.5%	7.1%	6.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	86.1%	6.2%	6.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	84.1%	7.2%	7.4%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	85.0%	7.4%	6.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.5%	6.2%	7.7%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.0%	6.6%	6.1%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.1%	7.8%	6.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	85.0%	8.5%	5.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	84.1%	10.4%	3.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2020	82.0%	14.5%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2021	77.8%	16.5%	4.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2022	79.6%	16.4%	2.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	76.6%	18.8%	2.4%	0.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	77.5%	16.5%	2.6%	1.8%	1.2%	0.3%	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 2012 at 86.1% and lowest in 2023 at 76.6%. Overall it fell from 84.0% in 2009 to 77.5% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Curry County: its share of workers rose from 9.0% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.0% to 2.6% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 18.8% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 16.5%.

Commute Start Times in Curry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Curry County?

The bars show when commuters in Curry 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 Oregon for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Curry County7.5% Oregon5.9%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Curry County4.4% Oregon3.8%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Curry County6.4% Oregon5.0%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Curry County4.4% Oregon7.6%	4.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Curry County6.7% Oregon9.7%	6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Curry County10.6% Oregon13.0%	10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Curry County19.2% Oregon13.0%	19.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Curry County14.7% Oregon10.6%	14.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Curry County5.7% Oregon5.8%	5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Curry County4.6% Oregon7.2%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Curry County5.2% Oregon3.7%	5.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Curry County2.5% Oregon1.8%	2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Curry County3.8% Oregon7.1%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Curry County4.4% Oregon5.7%	4.4%

Curry County Oregon Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Curry County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are more common than in Oregon: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oregon: 51.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Curry 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 Curry 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 Curry County next to Oregon 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Curry County	Oregon	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:01 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:55 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Curry County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:52 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Curry County now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Curry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Curry County	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.8 min	20.1 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.5%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Curry County is 12.8 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 2.6% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau