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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Minutes)
County
Value
Adair
24.7
Alfalfa
18.8
Atoka
25.8
Beaver
19.9
Beckham
17.7
Blaine
18.7
Bryan
19.9
Caddo
23.6
Canadian
23.8
Carter
18.9
Cherokee
23.6
Choctaw
23.2
Cimarron
14.8
Cleveland
23.4
Coal
24.6
Comanche
16.9
Cotton
23.2
Craig
21.1
Creek
25.0
Custer
20.0
Delaware
25.9
Dewey
21.7
Ellis
17.5
Garfield
16.9
Garvin
21.8
Grady
26.2
Grant
18.9
Greer
19.9
Harmon
17.0
Harper
18.8
Haskell
24.6
Hughes
23.6
Jackson
15.2
Jefferson
27.6
Johnston
24.3
Kay
17.4
Kingfisher
19.1
Kiowa
21.4
Latimer
24.1
Le Flore
24.9
Lincoln
29.0
Logan
27.7
Love
22.6
Major
21.4
Marshall
23.5
Mayes
23.9
McClain
26.6
McCurtain
21.6
McIntosh
27.4
Murray
20.7
Muskogee
20.5
Noble
19.5
Nowata
26.9
Okfuskee
28.1
Oklahoma
21.3
Okmulgee
26.3
Osage
24.6
Ottawa
20.6
Pawnee
27.3
Payne
17.5
Pittsburg
20.9
Pontotoc
17.6
Pottawatomie
24.1
Pushmataha
28.7
Roger Mills
18.6
Rogers
24.8
Seminole
23.9
Sequoyah
25.7
Stephens
20.9
Texas
14.8
Tillman
19.6
Tulsa
19.8
Wagoner
26.4
Washington
18.3
Washita
23.3
Woods
13.7
Woodward
17.0
Value for Oklahoma (Minutes): 21.7
Data item: Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes that it usually took the person to get from home to work each day during the reference week. The elapsed time includes time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in carpools, and time spent in other activities related to getting to work.
Mean travel time to work is obtained by dividing the total number of minutes by the number of workers 16 years old and over who did not work at home. Mean travel time to work is rounded to the nearest tenth of a minute. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Travel Time to Work."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
