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Commuting in Grant 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 Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant 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 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Grant County holds about 0.6% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,148 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)
Grant County 20.8 min 41.6 min 173 hrs/yr $5,370 639
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

Grant County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Grant County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grant County

  • Car: 89.5%
  • Worked at Home: 9.1%
  • Walked: 0.9%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1% 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 Grant County: 4.3 times more than the West Virginia average (0.1% vs 0.0%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant 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 Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 92.2% 3.3% 4.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 91.7% 4.0% 4.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.8% 3.8% 4.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 90.0% 5.6% 3.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 89.0% 5.7% 4.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 92.7% 3.4% 2.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.1% 3.8% 2.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 92.4% 3.3% 3.1% 0.2% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.2% 3.7% 2.9% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 91.6% 2.8% 4.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 90.2% 3.9% 4.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 89.6% 5.1% 3.8% 1.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 87.9% 6.1% 4.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 87.8% 6.7% 4.1% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.7% 9.1% 1.2% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 89.5% 9.1% 0.9% 0.3% 0.1% 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 was highest in 2015 at 93.1% and lowest in 2022 at 87.8%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 2.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grant County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 0.9% of workers (down 3.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.0% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Grant County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?

The bars show when commuters in Grant 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
14.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.3% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 39.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant County West Virginia United States
2009 7:31 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:27 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:17 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:12 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:23 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:29 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:33 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:35 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:41 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:38 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:30 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:27 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:29 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:24 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:24 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Grant County now leave 14 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 Grant County has moved 14 minutes earlier.

How does Grant County's commute time compare?

Metric Grant County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.8 min 21.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 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 9.1% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 0.9% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Grant County is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Grant County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grant County, WV is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,983 residents against a local median of 14,243. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Grant County, WV an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 6% below the local median at 9.1% against 9.7%. Grant County, WV has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Grant County, WV 10,983 20.8 min #3/6 9.1% #6/6 7:24 AM #3/6
Hardy County, WV 14,243 20.5 min 9.1% 7:25 AM
Tucker County, WV 6,654 22.8 min 10.6% 7:13 AM
Mineral County, WV 26,854 21.5 min 9.3% 7:24 AM
Garrett County, MD 28,615 18.8 min 12.3% 7:39 AM
Pendleton County, WV 6,043 23.6 min 9.7% 7:11 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grant County, West Virginia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Grant County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,370 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Grant County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Grant 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 common is public transit use in Grant 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.

Which counties in West Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).