Oldham County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oldham County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oldham County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Oldham County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oldham County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,915 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)
Oldham County	28.2 min	56.4 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,288	239
Texas	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,888	1,441
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 28.2 minutes to get to work in Oldham County. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% of counties in Texas

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 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oldham County

• Car: 87.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.2%
• Walked: 4.5% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Oldham County: 8.7 times more than the Texas average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Oldham County: 3.0 times more than the Texas average (4.5% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Oldham County: 7.5 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Oldham County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Biking is essentially absent in Oldham County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Oldham County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	71.6%	12.3%	6.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	8.8%
2010	74.6%	13.3%	4.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	7.2%
2011	79.2%	8.6%	5.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	6.0%
2012	82.8%	10.4%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	1.3%
2013	90.6%	5.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	1.2%
2014	88.8%	7.6%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.1%
2015	89.8%	5.2%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%
2016	85.8%	6.3%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.2%
2017	84.7%	4.4%	10.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2018	86.9%	3.9%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2019	86.2%	5.1%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2020	83.7%	5.8%	9.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2021	87.5%	5.3%	6.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.1%	6.8%	4.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.4%	7.9%	4.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.3%	7.2%	4.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	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 2013 at 90.6%. Overall it rose from 71.6% in 2009 to 87.3% in 2024, up 15.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Oldham County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 12.3% to 7.2% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 10.1% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 4.5%.

Commute Start Times in Oldham County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oldham County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Oldham County9.3% Texas5.5%	9.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oldham County5.7% Texas4.4%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oldham County2.2% Texas5.1%	2.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oldham County6.7% Texas9.3%	6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oldham County7.5% Texas9.3%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oldham County21.9% Texas15.3%	21.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oldham County22.1% Texas11.8%	22.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oldham County11.5% Texas11.5%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oldham County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oldham County1.1% Texas6.7%	1.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oldham County1.6% Texas3.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oldham County0.3% Texas1.3%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oldham County6.1% Texas5.8%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oldham County1.1% Texas6.2%	1.1%

Oldham County Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Oldham County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 63.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.3%) 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 Oldham 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 Oldham 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 Oldham County next to Texas 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	Oldham County	Texas	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oldham County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Oldham County now leave 12 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 Oldham County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Oldham County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oldham County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 min	22.8 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	7.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oldham County is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau