Monroe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Monroe 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 Monroe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monroe County spend about 67 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 280 hours, about 11.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 56% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 12.1 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 112 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,478 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	33.7 min	67.3 min	280 hrs/yr	$8,695	514
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

Monroe County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 33.7 minutes to get to work in Monroe County. That's 50% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Monroe County

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Monroe County: 5.6 times more than the West Virginia average (0.8% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Monroe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Monroe 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	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.8%	3.5%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.8%	4.2%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.6%	5.3%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.7%	3.9%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.9%	3.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	3.9%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	3.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	3.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	2.8%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.2%	3.8%	5.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.6%	3.6%	4.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	2.2%	4.6%	0.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	4.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	3.7%	4.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	3.2%	0.8%	0.9%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.9%	5.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 94.7% and lowest in 2011 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 90.9% in 2024, down 0.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Monroe County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 1.4% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Monroe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Monroe County?

The bars show when commuters in Monroe 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		7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		15.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Monroe County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 39.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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	Monroe County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Monroe County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Monroe County now leave 24 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 Monroe County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Monroe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Monroe County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.7 min	21.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.4%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Monroe County is 33.7 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Monroe County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Monroe County, WV is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 12,386 residents against a local median of 16,557. Where Monroe County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 25% above the local median of 27.0 min at 33.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 25.3 min on one-way commute, so Monroe County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Monroe County, WV has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Monroe County, WV	12,386	33.7 min #5/6	5.4% #4/6	7:14 AM #3/6
Giles County, VA	16,557	27.0 min	2.5%	7:29 AM
Summers County, WV	11,729	31.5 min	4.2%	7:02 AM
Craig County, VA	4,833	41.3 min	16.9%	7:10 AM
Greenbrier County, WV	32,386	21.0 min	5.5%	7:30 AM
Montgomery County, VA	99,089	16.0 min	14.0%	8:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Monroe County, West Virginia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Monroe County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 280 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,695 at a typical national wage. That's 56% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Monroe County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Monroe County, West Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).