Clay County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Clay County, Florida: 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 Clay County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clay County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Clay County holds about 1.0% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clay County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,225 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)
Clay County	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,062	2,535
Florida	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,189	3,068
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: Florida Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Florida

Taylor County (13.8 min)
Monroe County (16.1 min)
Franklin County (16.6 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Florida

Washington County (32.8 min)
Osceola County (32.3 min)
Liberty County (32.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Clay County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Clay County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% of counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clay County

Public transit is unusually rare in Clay County: 11.7 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Clay County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clay 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation
2009	93.3%	3.7%	1.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	3.6%	0.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	92.7%	3.9%	0.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	93.0%	3.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.5%	3.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	93.5%	4.1%	0.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.5%	4.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	93.2%	4.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.5%	5.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.5%	6.2%	1.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.8%	5.9%	1.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	87.9%	8.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	85.9%	10.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	84.3%	12.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	82.6%	14.5%	1.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	81.1%	15.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 81.1% in 2024, down 12.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clay County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 12.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Clay County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clay County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

Clay County Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clay County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 42.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Clay 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 Clay 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 Clay County next to Florida 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	Clay County	Florida	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clay County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Florida followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Clay County now leave 20 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 Clay County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Clay County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clay County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 min	24.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.9%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clay County is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Clay County, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Clay County, FL is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 225,443 residents against a local median of 75,164. The measure that sets Clay County, FL apart most is work from home: 15.9%, 50% above the local median of 10.6%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 31.2 min against a local median of 27.0 min, 15% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 15% above the local median it puts Clay County, FL at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 19.0% on work from home, so Clay County, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Clay County, FL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Clay County, FL	225,443	31.2 min #5/6	15.9% #3/6	7:18 AM #4/6
Bradford County, FL	27,885	27.9 min	10.6%	7:09 AM
Putnam County, FL	75,164	27.0 min	9.8%	7:14 AM
Duval County, FL	1,023,142	22.6 min	16.0%	7:39 AM
St. Johns County, FL	306,934	25.5 min	26.7%	7:51 AM
Union County, FL	15,701	32.0 min	7.7%	7:06 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Clay County, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Clay County, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,062 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Clay County, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Clay County, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Clay County, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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

Among counties in Florida, the shortest average commutes are in Taylor County (13.8 min), Monroe County (16.1 min), Franklin County (16.6 min). The longest are in Washington County (32.8 min), Osceola County (32.3 min), Liberty County (32.1 min).