Clearfield County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clearfield County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clearfield County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Clearfield County holds about 0.6% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clearfield County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,080 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)
Clearfield County	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,201	530
Pennsylvania	22.4 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,779	1,152
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: Pennsylvania Counties

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On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Clearfield County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clearfield County

• Car: 87.1%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Clearfield County: 3.3 times more than the Pennsylvania average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Clearfield County: 21.4 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Clearfield County: 3.8 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Clearfield County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clearfield 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.3%	2.6%	2.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.8%	2.4%	3.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.1%	2.6%	2.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	2.8%	2.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.6%	2.7%	3.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.7%	2.7%	3.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	2.4%	2.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.6%	2.1%	3.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	2.4%	3.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.2%	2.7%	2.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	3.0%	2.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.7%	4.2%	2.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	90.2%	5.6%	2.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	89.4%	6.5%	2.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	88.1%	7.2%	3.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	87.1%	8.1%	3.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clearfield County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Clearfield County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clearfield County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Clearfield County7.7% Pennsylvania5.3%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clearfield County5.0% Pennsylvania3.9%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clearfield County6.5% Pennsylvania5.3%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clearfield County8.8% Pennsylvania8.9%	8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clearfield County11.9% Pennsylvania10.1%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clearfield County13.0% Pennsylvania13.8%	13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clearfield County12.1% Pennsylvania11.4%	12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clearfield County7.9% Pennsylvania10.9%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clearfield County4.9% Pennsylvania5.8%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clearfield County4.6% Pennsylvania6.1%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clearfield County1.5% Pennsylvania2.7%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clearfield County1.7% Pennsylvania1.4%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clearfield County8.6% Pennsylvania7.6%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clearfield County5.7% Pennsylvania6.9%	5.7%

Clearfield County Pennsylvania Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clearfield County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 19.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Pennsylvania's: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Clearfield 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 Clearfield 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 Clearfield County next to Pennsylvania 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	Clearfield County	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clearfield County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). That goes against the trend across Pennsylvania, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clearfield 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 Clearfield County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Clearfield County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clearfield County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 min	22.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.1%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clearfield County is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 3.0% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau