Clark County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clark County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clark County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 97 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Clark County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clark County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,204 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)
Clark County	11.7 min	23.3 min	97 hrs/yr	$3,010	109
Kansas	17.2 min	34.4 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,448	662
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: Kansas Counties

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On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Clark County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 walking. About 6.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clark County

• Car: 83.1%
• Walked: 8.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.3%
• Other: 2.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Clark County: 12713733.3 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Clark County: 3.5 times more than the Kansas average (8.0% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Clark County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Clark County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Clark County stands out for active commuting: 8.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Clark County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clark 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.1%	6.9%	3.6%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.6%	4.6%	5.4%	1.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.3%	5.8%	6.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.7%	6.0%	6.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.2%	7.7%	6.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.6%	7.7%	5.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.9%	8.4%	4.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.6%	7.3%	3.3%	0.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.4%	7.9%	5.1%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.9%	6.9%	6.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	82.1%	8.7%	7.2%	0.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	79.3%	9.7%	8.6%	0.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.5%	10.3%	8.1%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.3%	8.9%	5.6%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.7%	9.2%	5.7%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.1%	8.0%	6.3%	2.3%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2010 at 87.6% and lowest in 2020 at 79.3%. Overall it fell from 87.1% in 2009 to 83.1% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clark County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 6.3% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 10.3% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 8.0%.

Commute Start Times in Clark County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clark County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Clark County1.4% Kansas4.7%	1.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clark County0.9% Kansas3.5%	0.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clark County2.0% Kansas5.2%	2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clark County8.2% Kansas7.6%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clark County12.9% Kansas10.3%	12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clark County19.3% Kansas14.9%	19.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clark County26.1% Kansas16.8%	26.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clark County12.2% Kansas10.4%	12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clark County6.2% Kansas4.5%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clark County4.0% Kansas5.0%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clark County1.6% Kansas2.5%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clark County1.5% Kansas1.1%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clark County0.5% Kansas7.0%	0.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clark County3.1% Kansas6.6%	3.1%

Clark County Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clark County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 26.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 4.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 70.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.7%) 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 Clark 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 Clark 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 Clark County next to Kansas 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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• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Clark County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clark County were on the road by 7:36 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clark County now leave 2 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 Clark County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Clark County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clark County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 min	17.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.3%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	8.0%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clark County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 8.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau