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Commuting in Barbour County, West Virginia: 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 Barbour County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barbour County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Barbour County holds about 0.9% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barbour County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,796 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)
Barbour County 27.1 min 54.1 min 225 hrs/yr $6,989 1,331
West Virginia 21.6 min 43.2 min 180 hrs/yr $5,581 1,052
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: West Virginia Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in West Virginia
  1. Randolph County (16.4 min)
  2. Ohio County (17.0 min)
  3. Pocahontas County (17.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in West Virginia
  1. Hampshire County (40.3 min)
  2. Morgan County (35.8 min)
  3. Monroe County (33.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Barbour County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.1 minutes to get to work in Barbour County. That's 21% longer 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 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barbour County

  • Car: 86.7%
  • Worked at Home: 6.6%
  • Walked: 3.4%
  • Other: 3.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

Public transit is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.5% in West Virginia.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.

Biking is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.2% in West Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in Barbour County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barbour 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 91.3% 3.1% 4.1% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 90.5% 4.1% 4.6% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.2% 4.7% 3.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2012 91.7% 4.4% 3.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2013 91.0% 4.5% 3.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2014 91.9% 3.1% 4.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4%
2015 91.0% 3.9% 3.8% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.6%
2016 90.3% 3.8% 4.7% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2017 90.1% 3.8% 4.5% 1.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2018 89.3% 4.3% 3.6% 2.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2019 89.5% 3.7% 3.9% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.5% 2.5% 3.4% 2.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.1% 5.1% 2.0% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 88.0% 5.7% 2.4% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.2% 6.4% 3.0% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 86.7% 6.6% 3.4% 3.2% 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 peaked in 2014 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Barbour County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.1% to 3.4% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Barbour County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barbour County?

The bars show when commuters in Barbour 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 West Virginia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
10.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.7%

Barbour County West Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Barbour County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 21.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 43.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Barbour 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 Barbour 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 Barbour County next to West Virginia 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 Barbour County West Virginia United States
2009 7:18 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:20 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:17 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:15 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:19 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:20 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:22 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:16 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:06 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:01 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:05 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:11 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barbour County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Barbour County now leave 27 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 Barbour County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Barbour County's commute time compare?

Metric Barbour County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.1 min 21.6 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 6.6% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.4% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Barbour County is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Barbour County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Barbour County, WV is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,424 residents against a local median of 23,712. Barbour County, WV's one-way commute, at 27.1 min, runs 25% above the 21.6 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 6.6% against a local median of 8.3%, 20% below it. The counties themselves spread 7.0 min on one-way commute, so Barbour County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Barbour County, WV has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Barbour County, WV 15,424 27.1 min #6/6 6.6% #5/6 7:11 AM #1/6
Taylor County, WV 16,487 23.4 min 6.5% 7:13 AM
Upshur County, WV 23,712 21.6 min 11.0% 7:19 AM
Randolph County, WV 27,576 16.4 min 8.1% 7:36 AM
Harrison County, WV 64,984 20.2 min 8.3% 7:22 AM
Tucker County, WV 6,654 22.8 min 10.6% 7:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Barbour County, West Virginia.

Is commuting expensive in Barbour County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 225 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,989 at a typical national wage. That's 25% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Barbour County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Barbour County, West Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Barbour County, West Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in West Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in West Virginia?

Among counties in West Virginia, the shortest average commutes are in Randolph County (16.4 min), Ohio County (17.0 min), Pocahontas County (17.2 min). The longest are in Hampshire County (40.3 min), Morgan County (35.8 min), Monroe County (33.7 min).