Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 18% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Lincoln County holds about 1.2% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,707 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)
Lincoln County	16.5 min	33.0 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,268	205
Oregon	20.3 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,236	967
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Oregon Counties

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 16.5 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 13.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 81.5%
• Worked at Home: 13.5%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Lincoln County: 5.2 times less than the Oregon average (0.5% vs 2.6%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Lincoln County: 9.4 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Lincoln County: 5.7 times less than the Oregon average (0.2% vs 1.4%).

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 min	20.3 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.5%	17.0%	13.4%
Walked	3.5%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Oregon.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.6% in Oregon. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau