Greenbrier County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greenbrier 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.

Greenbrier County holds about 1.8% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greenbrier County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,170 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)
Greenbrier County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,425	568
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

Greenbrier County

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Average commute time

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

Faster than 76% of counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greenbrier County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Greenbrier County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greenbrier 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	3.2%	2.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	92.7%	3.1%	2.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	93.5%	2.9%	2.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	93.6%	3.0%	2.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	92.1%	3.7%	3.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.1%	3.3%	3.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.0%	3.1%	3.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	92.0%	3.8%	3.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	92.2%	3.4%	3.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	93.7%	2.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	94.8%	2.0%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	95.5%	1.6%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	96.0%	1.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	94.3%	3.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.5%	3.8%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.2%	5.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2021 at 96.0%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greenbrier County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 5.5% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Greenbrier County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greenbrier County?

The bars show when commuters in Greenbrier 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greenbrier County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are less common than in West Virginia: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier 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	Greenbrier County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:42 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	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greenbrier County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Greenbrier County's commute time compare?

Metric	Greenbrier County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.5%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.5%	3.2%

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

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Greenbrier County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Greenbrier County, WV is the largest of the 5 counties compared here, 32,386 residents against a local median of 13,622. The measure that sets Greenbrier County, WV apart most is work from home: 5.5%, 22% above the local median of 4.5%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 21.0 min against a local median of 26.6 min, 21% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% below the local median it puts Greenbrier County, WV at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 1.6% on work from home, so Greenbrier County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Greenbrier County, WV has the highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Greenbrier County, WV	32,386	21.0 min #2/5	5.5% #1/5	7:30 AM #4/5
Monroe County, WV	12,386	33.7 min	5.4%	7:14 AM
Alleghany County, VA	14,859	18.1 min	3.8%	7:40 AM
Nicholas County, WV	24,277	21.6 min	4.8%	7:29 AM
Summers County, WV	11,729	31.5 min	4.2%	7:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Greenbrier County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,425 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Greenbrier County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Greenbrier 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).