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Commuting in Summers 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 Summers County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Summers County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 46% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Summers County holds about 0.7% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Summers County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,254 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)
Summers County 31.5 min 63.0 min 262 hrs/yr $8,135 645
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
  1. Randolph County (16.4 min)
  2. Ohio County (17.0 min)
  3. Pocahontas County (17.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in West Virginia
  1. Hampshire County (40.3 min)
  2. Morgan County (35.8 min)
  3. Monroe County (33.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Summers County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.5 minutes to get to work in Summers County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Summers County

  • Car: 93.3%
  • Worked at Home: 4.2%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Summers County, versus 0.5% in West Virginia.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Summers County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Summers 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 Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 92.7% 2.3% 3.7% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 92.8% 1.5% 4.0% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 89.7% 5.1% 3.3% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 91.3% 4.2% 2.7% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 91.5% 3.9% 3.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.9% 3.6% 1.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.1% 4.7% 1.6% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.9% 3.0% 2.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 93.5% 3.3% 2.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 92.5% 4.2% 3.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 88.5% 6.1% 5.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 86.7% 5.3% 5.3% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 87.0% 7.0% 3.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.2%
2022 87.6% 6.9% 4.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 87.8% 6.7% 4.4% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.3% 4.2% 1.4% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 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 2014 at 93.9% and lowest in 2020 at 86.7%. Overall it rose from 92.7% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Summers County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 4.2% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points.

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

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

Working from home peaked at 7.0% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 4.2%.

Commute Start Times in Summers County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among West Virginia's 55 counties: the typical start is 37 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Summers County?

The bars show when commuters in Summers 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
6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
10.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
21.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
5.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
7.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Summers County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 21.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Summers 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 Summers 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 Summers 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 Summers County West Virginia United States
2009 7:39 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:41 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:26 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:24 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:19 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:18 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:21 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:31 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:16 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:19 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:02 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:02 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Summers County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 37 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across West Virginia, where the typical start moved 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Summers County now leave 36 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 Summers County has moved 29 minutes earlier.

How does Summers County's commute time compare?

Metric Summers County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 31.5 min 21.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 4.2% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Summers County is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower 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

Summers County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Summers County, WV is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,729 residents against a local median of 39,515. Summers County, WV's work from home, at 4.2%, runs 37% below the 6.6% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 31.5 min against a local median of 23.3 min, 35% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 35% above the local median it puts Summers County, WV at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.9% on work from home, so Summers County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Summers County, WV has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Summers County, WV 11,729 31.5 min #5/6 4.2% #5/6 7:02 AM #1/6
Monroe County, WV 12,386 33.7 min 5.4% 7:14 AM
Mercer County, WV 58,563 20.7 min 6.6% 7:32 AM
Giles County, VA 16,557 27.0 min 2.5% 7:29 AM
Raleigh County, WV 73,194 20.2 min 8.4% 7:43 AM
Fayette County, WV 39,515 23.3 min 6.6% 7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Summers County, West Virginia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,135 at a typical national wage. That's 46% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Summers 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.

How common is public transit use in Summers County, West Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in West Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).