Hardy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hardy 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 Hardy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hardy County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Hardy County holds about 0.8% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hardy County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,114 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)
Hardy County	20.5 min	40.9 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,284	1,032
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

Hardy County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Hardy County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% 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 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hardy County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Hardy County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

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

Biking is unusually rare in Hardy County: 9.1 times less than the West Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hardy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hardy 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.0%	4.8%	3.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.8%	4.5%	2.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	91.4%	5.0%	2.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.2%	6.4%	3.1%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.3%	4.6%	4.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.9%	2.1%	5.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.5%	2.3%	5.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	89.9%	3.1%	6.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.8%	2.5%	5.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	95.3%	2.5%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	2.1%	1.6%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.1%	2.0%	1.4%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	7.9%	1.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.5%	8.2%	1.7%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.7%	7.3%	2.5%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	9.1%	3.4%	1.5%	0.5%	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 2018 at 95.3%. Overall it fell from 91.0% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hardy County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 6.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hardy County

Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among West Virginia's 55 counties: the typical start is 14 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hardy County?

The bars show when commuters in Hardy 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		9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hardy County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 22.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 41.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Hardy 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 Hardy 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 Hardy 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	Hardy County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:56 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hardy County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). That goes against the trend across West Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 8 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Hardy County now leave 13 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 Hardy County has moved 10 minutes earlier.

How does Hardy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hardy County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	9.1%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hardy County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hardy County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hardy County, WV is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,243 residents against a local median of 26,854. Nothing separates Hardy County, WV sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 5% below the local median at 20.5 min against 21.5 min. Hardy County, WV has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hardy County, WV	14,243	20.5 min #1/6	9.1% #5/6	7:25 AM #5/6
Shenandoah County, VA	44,927	25.6 min	9.3%	7:24 AM
Grant County, WV	10,983	20.8 min	9.1%	7:24 AM
Hampshire County, WV	23,465	40.3 min	9.4%	7:05 AM
Mineral County, WV	26,854	21.5 min	9.3%	7:24 AM
Rockingham County, VA	85,561	20.6 min	9.2%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hardy County, West Virginia.

Is living in Hardy County, West Virginia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,284 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Hardy County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hardy 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.

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).