Clark County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clark County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clark County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 11% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Clark County holds about 1.1% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clark County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,946 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)
Clark County	18.8 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,865	1,172
Ohio	21.2 min	42.4 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,472	1,212
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Ohio Counties

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Clark County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 8.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.6%
• Worked at Home: 8.3%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Clark County: 10.8 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Clark County: 3.7 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

How does Clark County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clark County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 min	21.2 min	22.5 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	8.3%	11.5%	13.4%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.1%	3.5%

The average commute time in Clark County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.2 minutes in Ohio.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Ohio. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau