Clinton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clinton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clinton County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way.

Clinton County holds about 0.8% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clinton County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,202 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 County	21.3 min	42.6 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,504	1,869
Michigan	21.3 min	42.6 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,509	1,585
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: Michigan Counties

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On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Clinton County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clinton County

• Car: 81.3%
• Worked at Home: 16.3%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Clinton County: 5.2 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Clinton County: 9.5 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Clinton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clinton 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	4.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	93.5%	3.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	92.9%	4.0%	1.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	92.5%	4.2%	1.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	92.3%	4.3%	1.4%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	92.3%	4.3%	1.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	92.3%	4.4%	1.4%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	92.1%	4.7%	1.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	92.3%	4.6%	1.4%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	92.5%	4.7%	1.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	91.8%	5.0%	1.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.4%	7.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	87.0%	9.9%	1.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	84.9%	12.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.0%	14.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.3%	16.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 81.3% in 2024, down 12.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clinton County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 16.3% in 2024, up 12.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Clinton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clinton County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Clinton County4.2% Michigan5.3%	4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clinton County3.4% Michigan3.9%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clinton County5.2% Michigan5.1%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clinton County8.0% Michigan8.0%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clinton County9.4% Michigan9.0%	9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clinton County16.4% Michigan13.0%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clinton County15.2% Michigan12.1%	15.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clinton County11.2% Michigan10.9%	11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clinton County5.3% Michigan5.6%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clinton County5.8% Michigan6.7%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clinton County2.4% Michigan3.2%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clinton County1.4% Michigan1.6%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clinton County6.7% Michigan8.5%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clinton County5.5% Michigan7.1%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Clinton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 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 Clinton 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 Clinton County next to Michigan 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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• Michigan
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Clinton County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clinton County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Clinton County now leave 1 minute earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Clinton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clinton County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 min	21.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.3%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clinton County is about the same as in Michigan.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau