Clarke County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clarke County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clarke County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Clarke County holds about 0.5% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clarke County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,133 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)
Clarke County	30.3 min	60.6 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,833	365
Mississippi	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,558	914
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.

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On average, it takes 30.3 minutes to get to work in Clarke County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Mississippi

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 2.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clarke County

• Car: 90.9%
• Walked: 4.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 2.3%
• Other: 2.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Clarke County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Walking is unusually common in Clarke County: 3.4 times more than the Mississippi average (4.5% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Clarke County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Clarke County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Biking is essentially absent in Clarke County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Clarke County stands out for active commuting: 4.5% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Clarke County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clarke 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.7%	1.5%	2.7%	3.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.6%	1.3%	3.1%	3.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.2%	1.6%	3.2%	3.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.3%	1.7%	3.3%	3.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	88.5%	3.1%	3.8%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.9%	3.2%	4.1%	2.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	90.2%	2.8%	3.2%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	90.2%	2.8%	2.7%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	2.9%	1.8%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.9%	0.7%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	95.7%	0.7%	1.5%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	94.3%	1.4%	2.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	95.0%	1.2%	2.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	94.5%	1.3%	1.7%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.5%	1.2%	3.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.9%	4.5%	2.3%	2.2%	0.0%	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 2018 at 95.9% and lowest in 2013 at 88.5%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 90.9% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Clarke County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 4.1% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Clarke County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clarke County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Clarke County5.1% Mississippi6.6%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clarke County5.6% Mississippi4.5%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clarke County5.9% Mississippi5.3%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clarke County10.9% Mississippi11.1%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clarke County9.6% Mississippi12.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clarke County14.4% Mississippi17.1%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clarke County15.1% Mississippi12.6%	15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clarke County10.0% Mississippi8.2%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clarke County2.2% Mississippi3.0%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clarke County1.2% Mississippi4.0%	1.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clarke County1.6% Mississippi2.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clarke County0.0% Mississippi0.8%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clarke County9.8% Mississippi5.8%	9.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clarke County8.8% Mississippi6.4%	8.8%

Clarke County Mississippi Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clarke County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are about as common as in Mississippi: 16.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 49.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Clarke 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 Clarke 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 Clarke County next to Mississippi 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Clarke County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:00 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clarke County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clarke County now leave 11 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 Clarke County has moved 27 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Clarke County in the whole series.

How does Clarke County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clarke County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.3%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clarke County is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau