Oakwood Taxi Zone (176): Trips, Hours & Fares

Oakwood (taxi zone 176) is a small zone with good fares. It has only about 249 pickups a day, 16th of Staten Island's 20 zones. But the median app fare from here is $18.58, 2nd of the island's 19 zones with more than 1,000 pickups. The catch is time: the median trip takes 14.4 minutes, so pay per hour with a rider is only middle of the pack.

All numbers on this page come from TLC trip records for September 2025 to August 2026, counted by TLC Help. They cover yellow taxis, green cabs and high-volume app services (Uber and Lyft). Car service trips that don't go through an app company are not in the data.

Zone 176 at a glance

On TLC's zone map, Oakwood touches Great Kills (109), Heartland Village/Todt Hill (118), New Dorp/Midland Beach (172) and Great Kills Park (110), a park zone with only 540 pickups all year. TLC tags zone 176 as "Boro Zone". That is a label in TLC's data files, not a legal boundary. The taxi zones guide explains the labels.

The "of 19" rankings skip Great Kills Park, which has too few trips to compare fairly.

A weekday-morning zone

The busiest hour of the week is 8 a.m. on weekdays, with about 21 pickups. The 7 a.m. hour is almost as busy (about 20). After that, weekday pickups settle at 13–17 an hour until early evening. Saturday has no morning rush. It builds slowly to about 17 pickups at 5 p.m. Over a whole day, a weekday (about 258 pickups) and a Saturday (about 259) are nearly equal. A Sunday is about a quarter smaller (about 191).

Month by month

App pickups ran from 6,810 in September 2025 to 8,127 in March 2026, the busiest month. December 2025 (7,946) came close. From April to August 2026 the zone held steady at about 7,300–7,800 a month. Yellow taxis are a footnote: 123 pickups in the year. But yellow taxis made 467 drop-offs here, almost four times as many as they picked up.

Where trips go: mostly next door

Oakwood riders usually leave the zone. New Dorp/Midland Beach (14.2%) and Great Kills (12.7%) each get more of its trips than Oakwood itself (10.7%). South Beach/Dongan Hills (9.0%) and Heartland Village/Todt Hill (7.9%) come next. All ten top destinations are on Staten Island. Rides coming in follow the same pattern: New Dorp/Midland Beach (15.6%) and Great Kills (12.6%) send more of them than Oakwood itself (11.4%).

Good fare, slow trip

The median app trip from Oakwood is 3.46 miles in 14.4 minutes, with an $18.58 fare and $14.82 driver pay before tips. Only Heartland Village/Todt Hill (14.6) and South Beach/Dongan Hills (14.5) have longer median trips among the island's 19 busier zones. That is why the per-trip pay is high but pay per engaged hour is $67.12, 13th of 19. Engaged hours count only time with a rider. They leave out the drive to the pickup and the wait, so real hourly earnings are lower. Riders tipped 5.6% of the fare, $1.45 a trip on average.

3.0% of app pickups here were charged the Congestion Relief Zone fee, tied with Heartland Village/Todt Hill for 2nd of 19 Staten Island zones. For app trips the MTA charge is $1.50 per trip, paid by the passenger (rates as of October 12, 2026; MTA).

Picking up in Oakwood

• Uber and Lyft drivers may only pick up trips dispatched through their base. Taking a street hail breaks rule 80-19(c)(1): $200–$350 for a first violation (Chapter 80).
• Yellow taxis and green cabs may accept hails here. TLC's Hail Zone covers all of the city except Manhattan below East 96th and West 110th Streets and the airports (Chapter 51). More in who can pick up where.
• Breaks: DOT's relief-stand dataset lists stands in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn only, none in Oakwood or anywhere else on the island (vqu8-xef9, checked October 12, 2026).