Doddridge County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Doddridge County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Doddridge County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Doddridge County holds about 0.4% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Doddridge County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,170 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)
Doddridge County	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,925	415
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.

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On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Doddridge County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in West Virginia

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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Doddridge County

• Car: 85.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Other: 3.4%
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• 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 Doddridge County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

Walking is unusually rare in Doddridge County: 3.4 times less than the West Virginia average (0.7% vs 2.5%).

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Doddridge County: just 0.7%, 3.6 times below the West Virginia average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Doddridge County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Doddridge 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.8%	4.6%	1.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	90.3%	4.9%	1.6%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	6.3%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	6.3%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2013	90.6%	6.8%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	4.3%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.9%	4.0%	1.7%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	3.2%	2.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	2.6%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	4.1%	3.3%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	3.8%	1.7%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.9%	9.5%	0.6%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.2%	10.1%	1.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	9.6%	1.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	8.0%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.9%	10.0%	3.4%	0.7%	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 93.2%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 85.9% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Doddridge County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Doddridge County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Doddridge County?

The bars show when commuters in Doddridge 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	12:00-4:59 AM Doddridge County11.7% West Virginia6.3%	11.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Doddridge County4.3% West Virginia4.4%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Doddridge County6.4% West Virginia5.6%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Doddridge County10.1% West Virginia10.2%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Doddridge County14.0% West Virginia10.4%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Doddridge County14.9% West Virginia14.4%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Doddridge County10.8% West Virginia11.9%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Doddridge County5.7% West Virginia9.7%	5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Doddridge County5.1% West Virginia4.5%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Doddridge County0.5% West Virginia4.7%	0.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Doddridge County5.4% West Virginia2.7%	5.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Doddridge County0.6% West Virginia1.2%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Doddridge County2.6% West Virginia7.0%	2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Doddridge County7.8% West Virginia7.1%	7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Doddridge County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 22.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like West Virginia's: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.8%) 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 Doddridge 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 Doddridge 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 Doddridge 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Doddridge County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Doddridge County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Doddridge County now leave 31 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 Doddridge County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Doddridge County's commute time compare?

Metric	Doddridge County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	10.0%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Doddridge County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau