Clinton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Clinton, Maryland: 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 Clinton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clinton spend about 72 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 299 hours, about 12.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.6 minutes.

Clinton holds about 0.6% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clinton would save about 120 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,709 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)
Clinton	35.9 min	71.8 min	299 hrs/yr	$9,272	2,072
Maryland	28.3 min	56.5 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,301	2,353
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.

Clinton Commute Map

On average, it takes 35.9 minutes to get to work in Clinton. That's 60% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clinton

Walking is unusually rare in Clinton: 8.0 times less than the Maryland average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Clinton: just 0.6%, 4.1 times below the Maryland average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Clinton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clinton 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	84.6%	2.5%	0.4%	11.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	83.6%	3.0%	0.1%	12.2%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	82.4%	2.7%	0.1%	13.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.7%	2.0%	0.2%	13.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	81.2%	2.8%	0.2%	14.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	81.7%	2.9%	0.4%	14.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	81.9%	3.2%	0.5%	13.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	82.3%	3.0%	0.6%	12.8%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	80.6%	3.2%	0.5%	14.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	81.7%	2.7%	0.6%	13.4%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	81.1%	2.6%	1.1%	13.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	80.0%	5.4%	1.4%	12.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.5%	9.0%	2.0%	9.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	75.5%	13.1%	3.7%	6.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	73.4%	16.0%	4.2%	5.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	71.8%	19.5%	4.5%	3.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 84.6% in 2009 to 71.8% in 2024, down 12.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clinton: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 19.5% in 2024, up 17.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 11.4% to 3.3% of workers (down 8.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Clinton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clinton?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		10.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		16.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

Clinton Maryland Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clinton is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 24.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maryland: 35.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Clinton, 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 Clinton 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 Clinton next to Maryland 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	Clinton	Maryland	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clinton were on the road by 7:06 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). That goes against the trend across Maryland, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Clinton now leave 32 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 Clinton has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Clinton in the whole series.

How does Clinton's commute time compare?

Metric	Clinton	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	35.9 min	28.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.5%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.3%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clinton is 35.9 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

3.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Clinton, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Clinton, MD compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Clinton, MD	37,316	35.9 min #2/2	19.5% #1/2	7:06 AM #1/2
Camp Springs, MD	23,931	33.8 min	17.3%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Clinton, Maryland.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Clinton, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 299 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $9,272 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Clinton, Maryland?

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