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Commuting in Clinton, Mississippi: 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 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Clinton holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clinton would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,372 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 23.0 min 45.9 min 191 hrs/yr $5,930 1,282
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.

Clinton Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Clinton. That's 2% longer 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 working from home. About 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clinton

  • Car: 89.4%
  • Worked at Home: 8.3%
  • Walked: 1.8%
  • Bicycle: 0.4% unusually high
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Clinton: 61.3 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Clinton: 4.8 times more than the Mississippi average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

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 Walked Bicycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 93.7% 3.2% 2.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2010 93.2% 4.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2011 93.0% 4.8% 1.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.4%
2012 93.4% 4.7% 1.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2013 93.7% 4.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 94.8% 3.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 96.1% 2.6% 0.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 95.7% 1.9% 2.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.5% 2.3% 2.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 93.6% 3.5% 2.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 93.1% 3.7% 2.6% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 92.4% 4.6% 1.7% 0.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 90.7% 7.8% 0.3% 0.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 87.9% 10.0% 0.8% 0.4% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 88.6% 8.9% 1.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 89.4% 8.3% 1.8% 0.4% 0.1% 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 2015 at 96.1% and lowest in 2022 at 87.9%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clinton: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 10.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 8.3%.

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

12:00-4:59 AM
3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Clinton is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 8.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 58.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Clinton Mississippi United States
2009 7:37 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:30 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:31 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:35 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:37 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:38 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:41 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:40 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:36 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:39 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:39 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:36 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:35 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:37 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:39 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clinton were on the road by 7:39 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clinton now leave 1 minute later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Clinton's commute time compare?

Metric Clinton Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.0 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 8.3% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.8% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Clinton is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Clinton, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Clinton, MS 24,318 23.0 min #2/2 8.3% #2/2 7:39 AM #2/2
Jackson, MS 145,698 19.0 min 8.7% 7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Clinton, Mississippi.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Clinton, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,930 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Clinton, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Clinton, Mississippi. 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.

Do people use public transit in Clinton, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Mississippi, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.