Monroe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Monroe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monroe County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 277 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 54% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

Monroe County holds about 0.7% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Monroe County would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,429 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)
Monroe County	33.2 min	66.4 min	277 hrs/yr	$8,573	514
West Virginia	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,581	1,052
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

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On average, it takes 33.2 minutes to get to work in Monroe County. That's 48% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 3.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 93.0%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Bicycle: 1.3% unusually high
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.8% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Monroe County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

Walked commuting is unusually low in Monroe County: 3.4 times less than the West Virginia average (0.8% vs 2.6%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Monroe County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Monroe County: 9.5 times more than the West Virginia average (1.3% vs 0.1%).

How does Monroe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Monroe County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.2 min	21.6 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	8.0%	13.4%
Walked	0.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Monroe County is 33.2 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in West Virginia. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau