Randolph County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Randolph County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Randolph County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Randolph County holds about 1.6% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Randolph County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,692 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)
Randolph County	16.4 min	32.7 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,230	515
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.

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On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Randolph County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Randolph County

• Car: 84.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Other: 4.3%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Randolph County: 13.9 times more than the West Virginia average (0.5% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Randolph County: 4.0 times less than the West Virginia average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Randolph County, versus 0.2% in West Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in Randolph County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Randolph 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.3%	3.0%	1.2%	3.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	90.2%	2.9%	1.1%	4.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	91.2%	2.8%	1.2%	3.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	90.5%	2.7%	1.0%	4.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	91.2%	2.8%	0.8%	4.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	92.7%	2.5%	0.3%	3.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	93.6%	2.4%	0.2%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	92.2%	3.3%	0.4%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	92.1%	3.8%	0.6%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.2%	3.1%	0.8%	4.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.3%	2.8%	2.0%	3.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	90.3%	2.9%	3.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	88.7%	3.6%	4.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	87.7%	4.7%	4.1%	3.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	85.1%	7.0%	5.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	84.7%	8.1%	4.3%	2.3%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2015 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 84.7% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Randolph County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 2.3% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Randolph County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Randolph County?

The bars show when commuters in Randolph 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	12:00-4:59 AM Randolph County7.4% West Virginia6.3%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Randolph County3.2% West Virginia4.4%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Randolph County5.7% West Virginia5.6%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Randolph County9.4% West Virginia10.2%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Randolph County11.3% West Virginia10.4%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Randolph County9.6% West Virginia14.4%	9.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Randolph County17.1% West Virginia11.9%	17.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Randolph County8.7% West Virginia9.7%	8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Randolph County5.6% West Virginia4.5%	5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Randolph County6.4% West Virginia4.7%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Randolph County2.1% West Virginia2.7%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Randolph County1.5% West Virginia1.2%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Randolph County6.0% West Virginia7.0%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Randolph County6.0% West Virginia7.1%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Randolph County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across West Virginia. Early starts are about as common as in West Virginia: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like West Virginia's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Randolph County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Randolph County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Across West Virginia the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Randolph County now leave 2 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 Randolph County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Randolph County's commute time compare?

Metric	Randolph County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 min	21.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.1%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Randolph County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau