Marion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marion 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 Marion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marion County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Marion County holds about 3.1% 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 Marion County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,388 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)
Marion County	23.1 min	46.2 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,970	1,413
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

Marion County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.1 minutes to get to work in Marion County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marion County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marion 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	93.5%	2.7%	2.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	3.4%	2.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	3.2%	2.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	92.5%	2.9%	2.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	91.9%	3.3%	3.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	91.7%	3.6%	3.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	3.3%	2.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.6%	3.2%	3.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.1%	4.0%	2.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.0%	4.4%	2.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.4%	4.0%	2.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.8%	4.7%	3.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.0%	6.1%	3.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.2%	7.2%	3.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.1%	9.3%	2.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.6%	11.0%	2.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marion County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Marion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marion County?

The bars show when commuters in Marion 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		3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marion County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are less common than in West Virginia: 12.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 52.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Marion 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 Marion 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 Marion 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	Marion County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marion County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Marion 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 Marion County has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Marion County in the whole series.

How does Marion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marion County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 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	11.0%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marion County is 23.1 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as West Virginia. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Marion County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Marion County, WV is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 55,899 residents against a local median of 34,835. Where Marion County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 56% above the local median of 7.0% at 11.0%.

The counties themselves spread 9.4% on work from home, so Marion County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Marion County, WV has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Marion County, WV	55,899	23.1 min #4/6	11.0% #2/6	7:25 AM #4/6
Monongalia County, WV	107,163	17.8 min	13.4%	7:52 AM
Taylor County, WV	16,487	23.4 min	6.5%	7:13 AM
Harrison County, WV	64,984	20.2 min	8.3%	7:22 AM
Greene County, PA	34,835	26.7 min	7.0%	7:26 AM
Wetzel County, WV	14,078	23.1 min	4.0%	7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marion County, West Virginia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 193 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,970 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

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

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