Cabell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cabell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cabell County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 16% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Cabell County holds about 5.1% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 4.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cabell County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,869 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)
Cabell County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,674	1,581
West Virginia	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,581	1,052
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: West Virginia Counties

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On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Cabell County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in West Virginia

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 7.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Taxi: 0.3% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Taxi commuting is unusually common in Cabell County: 3.5 times more than the West Virginia average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Cabell County: 3.5 times more than the West Virginia average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

How does Cabell County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cabell County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	21.6 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	7.6%	8.0%	13.4%
Walked	2.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Cabell County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in West Virginia. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau