Clay County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clay County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clay County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Clay County holds about 0.6% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clay County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,128 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	20.6 min	41.2 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,321	606
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 20.6 minutes to get to work in Clay County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clay County

• Car: 94.1%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Clay County: 5.2 times less than the Mississippi average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Clay County: 2871955793.5 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Clay County: just 0.3%, 5.6 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

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.

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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	93.3%	1.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	2.5%
2010	94.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.8%
2011	94.9%	2.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2012	95.3%	1.7%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2013	96.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	96.3%	1.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2015	96.7%	1.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	95.5%	2.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	94.1%	3.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	93.1%	4.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2019	91.8%	5.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.8%
2020	91.2%	6.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.7%
2021	90.4%	7.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.5%
2022	90.2%	8.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2023	92.2%	7.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	94.1%	5.6%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2013 at 96.8% and lowest in 2022 at 90.2%. Overall it rose from 93.3% in 2009 to 94.1% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clay County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 8.6% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.6%.

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 Mississippi for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Clay County4.4% Mississippi6.6%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clay County1.7% Mississippi4.5%	1.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clay County5.5% Mississippi5.3%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clay County9.1% Mississippi11.1%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clay County14.5% Mississippi12.4%	14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clay County20.6% Mississippi17.1%	20.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clay County11.2% Mississippi12.6%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clay County11.0% Mississippi8.2%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clay County1.9% Mississippi3.0%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clay County1.5% Mississippi4.0%	1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clay County2.9% Mississippi2.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clay County0.1% Mississippi0.8%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clay County8.7% Mississippi5.8%	8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clay County6.9% Mississippi6.4%	6.9%

Clay County Mississippi 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 20.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 57.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Clay County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clay County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clay County now leave 16 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 2 minutes later.

How does Clay County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clay County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 min	21.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.6%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clay County is 20.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau