Commuting in Harrison County, West Virginia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
You9/24/26, 8:10 PM
How many minutes is the average drive to work in Harrison County?
Map AI9/24/26, 8:10 PM
Commute Time Burden in Harrison County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Harrison County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.
Harrison County holds about 3.7% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 3.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Harrison County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,088 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)
Harrison County
20.2 min
40.4 min
168 hrs/yr
$5,220
1,363
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.
On average, it takes
20.2
minutes to get to work in
Harrison County.
That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 85% 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 8.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Harrison County
Car:
85.9%
Worked at Home:
8.3%
Walked:
4.4%
Other:
0.7%
Bicycle:
0.6%unusually high
Public Transportation:
0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Harrison County: 4.9 times less than the West Virginia average (0.1% vs 0.5%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Harrison County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.
Biking is unusually common in Harrison County: 3.7 times more than the West Virginia average (0.6% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Harrison County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Harrison 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
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
94.1%
2.4%
2.3%
0.4%
0.2%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
93.8%
2.6%
2.2%
0.4%
0.2%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
93.5%
2.8%
2.3%
0.4%
0.2%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
93.2%
2.7%
2.4%
0.7%
0.1%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2013
92.9%
2.5%
2.3%
1.3%
0.0%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
2014
92.5%
2.5%
2.5%
1.7%
0.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
2015
92.5%
2.4%
2.6%
1.8%
0.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
2016
92.0%
2.6%
2.8%
1.9%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
91.9%
3.0%
2.8%
1.5%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
92.4%
3.1%
2.6%
1.0%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
92.5%
3.5%
2.3%
0.8%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
92.0%
4.0%
2.6%
0.5%
0.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
90.2%
5.1%
3.1%
0.7%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
89.7%
5.8%
3.0%
0.8%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
88.3%
6.8%
3.5%
0.9%
0.5%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
85.9%
8.3%
4.4%
0.7%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 85.9% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Harrison County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).
Biking overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Harrison County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Harrison County?
The bars show when commuters in Harrison 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.
Harrison CountyWest VirginiaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Harrison County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are less common than in West Virginia: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 51.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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
Harrison County
West Virginia
United States
2009
7:38 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:36 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:28 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:26 AM
7:33 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:26 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:25 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
7:27 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:27 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:25 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:22 AM
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:21 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:23 AM
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:22 AM
7:27 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Harrison County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Harrison County now leave 16 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 Harrison County has moved 5 minutes earlier.
How does Harrison County's commute time compare?
Metric
Harrison County
West Virginia
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.2 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
8.3%
9.1%
15.0%
Walked
4.4%
2.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.1%
0.5%
3.2%
The average commute time in Harrison County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.
Harrison County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Harrison County, WV is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 64,984 residents against a local median of 16,487. The measure that sets Harrison County, WV apart most is work from home: 8.3%, 25% above the local median of 6.6%.
The counties themselves spread 5.5% on work from home, so Harrison County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Harrison County, WV has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Is living in Harrison County, West Virginia good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,220 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Harrison County, West Virginia?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Harrison 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 Harrison County, West Virginia?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% 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).