Gilmer County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gilmer County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gilmer County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Gilmer County holds about 0.4% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gilmer County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,412 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)
Gilmer County	23.3 min	46.7 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,030	166
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 23.3 minutes to get to work in Gilmer County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gilmer County

• Car: 86.5%
• Walked: 5.2%
• Other: 4.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Gilmer County: 6.1 times more than the West Virginia average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gilmer County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gilmer 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	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	81.7%	5.1%	0.0%	13.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.4%	2.6%	0.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.8%	5.0%	0.0%	9.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.0%	4.5%	0.1%	9.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.3%	4.1%	0.3%	8.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.1%	3.6%	0.8%	7.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.5%	4.7%	2.0%	7.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.6%	2.8%	2.5%	7.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.6%	3.7%	2.3%	9.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	3.9%	3.7%	7.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.4%	4.7%	3.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.4%	7.9%	2.7%	2.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.9%	7.7%	2.5%	5.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.4%	7.1%	3.3%	3.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	5.8%	1.8%	2.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	5.2%	4.9%	3.2%	0.2%	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 2023 at 89.3%. Overall it rose from 81.7% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.2% to 3.2% of workers (down 10.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 7.9% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Gilmer County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gilmer County?

The bars show when commuters in Gilmer 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 Gilmer County5.7% West Virginia6.3%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gilmer County3.3% West Virginia4.4%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gilmer County12.8% West Virginia5.6%	12.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gilmer County6.0% West Virginia10.2%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gilmer County10.7% West Virginia10.4%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gilmer County18.3% West Virginia14.4%	18.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gilmer County12.7% West Virginia11.9%	12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gilmer County9.8% West Virginia9.7%	9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gilmer County2.9% West Virginia4.5%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gilmer County2.0% West Virginia4.7%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gilmer County1.3% West Virginia2.7%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gilmer County0.7% West Virginia1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gilmer County5.1% West Virginia7.0%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gilmer County8.6% West Virginia7.1%	8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gilmer County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 Gilmer 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 Gilmer 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 Gilmer 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	Gilmer County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gilmer County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Gilmer County now leave 19 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 Gilmer County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Gilmer County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gilmer County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 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	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	5.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gilmer County is 23.3 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 5.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau