Tillamook County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Tillamook County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tillamook County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Tillamook County holds about 0.6% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tillamook County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,392 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)
Tillamook County	13.5 min	26.9 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,479	305
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.

Commute Time Map: Oregon Counties

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On average, it takes 13.5 minutes to get to work in Tillamook County. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% 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 19.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tillamook County

• Car: 73.1%
• Worked at Home: 19.3%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Other: 2.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.7%
• Bicycle: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Tillamook County: 988.8 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Tillamook County: 99199.7 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Tillamook County: 3.9 times less than the Oregon average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Tillamook County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tillamook 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.1%	5.9%	5.2%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	85.1%	6.5%	5.5%	1.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.8%	5.0%	5.8%	1.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.6%	4.8%	6.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.5%	5.5%	5.9%	1.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.6%	5.2%	5.4%	1.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.1%	5.0%	4.8%	1.1%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	86.6%	5.1%	5.0%	1.3%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	85.8%	5.8%	5.4%	1.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	86.5%	5.1%	5.5%	0.6%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	86.7%	5.6%	5.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	85.3%	6.6%	5.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	84.2%	8.5%	3.8%	1.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.4%	11.3%	3.6%	2.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	74.9%	15.8%	4.1%	3.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.1%	19.3%	3.1%	2.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 87.1% in 2009 to 73.1% in 2024, down 14.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tillamook County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 19.3% in 2024, up 13.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 3.1% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 1.3% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Tillamook County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tillamook County?

The bars show when commuters in Tillamook 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 Tillamook County9.8% Oregon5.9%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Tillamook County3.0% Oregon3.8%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Tillamook County5.7% Oregon5.0%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Tillamook County8.1% Oregon7.6%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Tillamook County10.2% Oregon9.7%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Tillamook County10.5% Oregon13.0%	10.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Tillamook County13.3% Oregon13.0%	13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Tillamook County10.5% Oregon10.6%	10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Tillamook County7.5% Oregon5.8%	7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Tillamook County5.2% Oregon7.2%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Tillamook County5.1% Oregon3.7%	5.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Tillamook County1.5% Oregon1.8%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Tillamook County7.8% Oregon7.1%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Tillamook County1.8% Oregon5.7%	1.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tillamook County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are more common than in Oregon: 18.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Oregon's: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Tillamook 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 Tillamook 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 Tillamook 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Tillamook County	Oregon	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tillamook County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Tillamook County now leave 2 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Tillamook County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tillamook County	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 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	19.3%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tillamook County is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 3.1% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau