Clinton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Clinton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clinton 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 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Clinton County holds about 0.4% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clinton County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,142 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	20.7 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,355	1,023
Ohio	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,447	1,212
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: Ohio Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Ohio

Hancock County (15.3 min)
Van Wert County (15.5 min)
Mercer County (16.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Ohio

Morgan County (32.5 min)
Vinton County (32.0 min)
Brown County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Clinton County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.7 minutes to get to work in Clinton 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clinton County

Public transit is unusually rare in Clinton County: 6.5 times less than the Ohio average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

Biking is essentially absent in Clinton County, versus 0.3% in Ohio.

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.

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	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	3.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	92.1%	3.1%	2.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	92.3%	3.3%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	91.3%	2.6%	3.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	91.1%	3.5%	3.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	91.9%	3.1%	3.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.9%	3.5%	2.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.3%	3.6%	3.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.2%	4.0%	3.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	91.4%	3.4%	3.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	91.2%	3.7%	2.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	91.5%	4.1%	2.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	90.2%	5.5%	2.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	90.4%	6.1%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	88.2%	7.5%	2.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	87.7%	7.8%	2.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clinton County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.9% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

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

12:00-4:59 AM		7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

Clinton County Ohio 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 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Ohio 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 County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clinton County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Clinton County now leave 15 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 Clinton County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Clinton County in the whole series.

How does Clinton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clinton County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.7 min	21.1 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.0%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Clinton County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Clinton County, OH is typical in size for this group, 42,019 residents against a local median of 43,837, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Clinton County, OH apart most is work from home: 7.8%, 21% above the local median of 6.5%.

The counties themselves spread 13.1% on work from home, so Clinton County, OH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Clinton County, OH has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Clinton County, OH	42,019	20.7 min #2/6	7.8% #3/6	7:23 AM #3/6
Greene County, OH	169,687	20.3 min	12.9%	7:46 AM
Highland County, OH	43,517	23.7 min	6.5%	7:23 AM
Warren County, OH	249,858	23.4 min	18.6%	7:42 AM
Fayette County, OH	28,876	22.3 min	5.5%	7:21 AM
Brown County, OH	43,837	32.0 min	6.5%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Clinton County, Ohio.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Clinton County, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,355 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Clinton County, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Clinton County, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Clinton County, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Ohio?

Among counties in Ohio, the shortest average commutes are in Hancock County (15.3 min), Van Wert County (15.5 min), Mercer County (16.0 min). The longest are in Morgan County (32.5 min), Vinton County (32.0 min), Brown County (32.0 min).