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Commuting in Wallowa County, Oregon: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Wallowa County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wallowa County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Wallowa County holds about 0.2% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wallowa County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,221 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)
Wallowa County 11.8 min 23.6 min 98 hrs/yr $3,053 250
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Oregon
  1. Lake County (7.7 min)
  2. Harney County (8.6 min)
  3. Baker County (8.9 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Oregon
  1. Columbia County (31.7 min)
  2. Clackamas County (23.9 min)
  3. Polk County (22.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Wallowa County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.8 minutes to get to work in Wallowa County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Oregon

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wallowa County

  • Car: 72.3%
  • Worked at Home: 16.8%
  • Walked: 5.4%
  • Other: 4.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.9%
  • Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Wallowa County, versus 0.2% in Oregon.

Public transit is unusually rare in Wallowa County: 4.8 times less than the Oregon average (0.5% vs 2.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wallowa County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wallowa 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 72.9% 10.2% 11.9% 1.7% 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 1.4%
2010 74.6% 9.5% 11.2% 1.5% 1.5% 0.2% 0.0% 1.5%
2011 74.8% 9.5% 10.9% 1.7% 2.0% 0.2% 0.0% 1.0%
2012 76.3% 10.1% 8.3% 2.1% 1.9% 0.3% 0.0% 1.0%
2013 75.6% 10.3% 8.8% 2.1% 2.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.5%
2014 77.8% 9.8% 8.2% 2.2% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4%
2015 78.6% 8.9% 8.4% 1.8% 2.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 77.2% 9.3% 10.6% 1.0% 1.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 77.7% 8.7% 11.3% 0.9% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 79.3% 8.9% 10.1% 0.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 79.2% 10.6% 9.1% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 75.0% 12.3% 9.1% 3.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 77.8% 13.1% 6.5% 2.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 75.5% 16.4% 4.8% 2.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 74.2% 16.9% 5.3% 2.3% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 72.3% 16.8% 5.4% 4.1% 0.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 79.3%. Overall it fell from 72.9% in 2009 to 72.3% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wallowa County: its share of workers rose from 10.2% in 2009 to 16.8% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.9% to 5.4% of workers (down 6.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wallowa County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Oregon's 36 counties: 60.5% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wallowa County?

The bars show when commuters in Wallowa 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
4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
22.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
19.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wallowa County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are less common than in Oregon: 9.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oregon: 60.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.9%) 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 Wallowa 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 Wallowa 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 Wallowa 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Wallowa County Oregon United States
2009 7:31 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:35 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:36 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:32 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:33 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:31 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:42 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:45 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:47 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:44 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:38 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:34 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:31 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wallowa County were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Oregon, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Wallowa County now leave 6 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 Wallowa County has moved 15 minutes earlier.

How does Wallowa County's commute time compare?

Metric Wallowa County Oregon US Average
Avg. Commute Time 11.8 min 20.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 16.8% 19.0% 15.0%
Walked 5.4% 3.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.5% 2.2% 3.2%

The average commute time in Wallowa County is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 5.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wallowa County, OR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Wallowa County, OR is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,549 residents against a local median of 22,455. Wallowa County, OR's work from home, at 16.8%, runs 54% above the 10.9% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Wallowa County, OR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wallowa County, OR has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Wallowa County, OR 7,549 11.8 min #2/6 16.8% #2/6 7:31 AM #3/6
Asotin County, WA 22,455 13.2 min 10.9% 7:35 AM
Nez Perce County, ID 42,646 13.5 min 9.3% 7:33 AM
Union County, OR 26,138 11.5 min 8.5% 7:32 AM
Garfield County, WA 2,351 28.4 min 16.8% 6:55 AM
Lewis County, ID 3,684 16.5 min 12.6% 7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wallowa County, Oregon.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Wallowa County, Oregon?

Commuters here spend an estimated 98 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,053 at a typical national wage. That's 41% less than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Wallowa County, Oregon?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Wallowa County, Oregon. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Wallowa County, Oregon?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Oregon, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Oregon?

Among counties in Oregon, the shortest average commutes are in Lake County (7.7 min), Harney County (8.6 min), Baker County (8.9 min). The longest are in Columbia County (31.7 min), Clackamas County (23.9 min), Polk County (22.2 min).