Brooke County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brooke 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 Brooke County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brooke County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Brooke County holds about 1.2% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brooke County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,171 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)
Brooke County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,426	1,091
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

Randolph County (16.4 min)
Ohio County (17.0 min)
Pocahontas County (17.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in West Virginia

Hampshire County (40.3 min)
Morgan County (35.8 min)
Monroe County (33.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Brooke County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Brooke County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 74% of counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brooke County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Brooke County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brooke 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.4%	2.4%	2.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	2.7%	2.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.2%	2.3%	3.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	92.2%	3.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.0%	2.8%	4.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.8%	2.8%	4.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.9%	3.7%	4.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.2%	3.0%	4.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	2.7%	4.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.6%	3.0%	5.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.5%	3.6%	4.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.7%	2.6%	4.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	3.9%	3.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.0%	5.6%	3.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.1%	7.1%	3.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	7.3%	2.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 94.5% and lowest in 2023 at 88.1%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brooke County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 5.0% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 2.2%.

Commute Start Times in Brooke County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brooke County?

The bars show when commuters in Brooke 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		5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brooke County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are about as common as in West Virginia: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Brooke 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 Brooke 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 Brooke 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	Brooke County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brooke County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Brooke County now leave 8 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 Brooke County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Brooke County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brooke County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 min	21.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	7.3%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brooke County is 21.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brooke County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Brooke County, WV is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,782 residents against a local median of 41,582. Brooke County, WV's work from home, at 7.3%, runs 16% below the 8.7% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 9.7% on work from home, so Brooke County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Brooke County, WV has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brooke County, WV	21,782	21.0 min #4/6	7.3% #4/6	7:30 AM #3/6
Ohio County, WV	41,582	17.0 min	6.4%	7:51 AM
Jefferson County, OH	64,518	20.7 min	8.7%	7:38 AM
Hancock County, WV	28,177	20.3 min	10.1%	7:14 AM
Washington County, PA	209,930	23.2 min	15.0%	7:30 AM
Marshall County, WV	29,868	23.0 min	5.3%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brooke County, West Virginia.

Is living in Brooke County, West Virginia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,426 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Brooke County, West Virginia?

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

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).