Tyler County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Tyler County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tyler County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 8.6 minutes.

Tyler County holds about 0.5% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tyler County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,124 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)
Tyler County	30.2 min	60.5 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,810	550
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

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On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Tyler County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tyler County

• Car: 91.7%
• Worked at Home: 3.7%
• Walked: 3.2%
• Other: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Tyler County: 14.5 times less than the West Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Tyler County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tyler 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	2.2%	3.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	1.3%	3.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	94.2%	1.4%	3.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	94.3%	1.9%	2.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	94.1%	2.2%	2.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.0%	2.0%	3.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.5%	1.7%	3.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	2.2%	3.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	2.3%	4.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.1%	2.6%	4.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.1%	4.0%	4.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.1%	3.2%	4.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	2.8%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	3.2%	3.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	2.2%	3.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.7%	3.7%	3.2%	1.4%	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 2015 at 94.5% and lowest in 2019 at 91.1%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 91.7% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tyler County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.9% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 3.2%.

Commute Start Times in Tyler County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tyler County?

The bars show when commuters in Tyler 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 Tyler County4.5% West Virginia6.3%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Tyler County7.5% West Virginia4.4%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Tyler County9.6% West Virginia5.6%	9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Tyler County12.5% West Virginia10.2%	12.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Tyler County11.5% West Virginia10.4%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Tyler County18.9% West Virginia14.4%	18.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Tyler County10.1% West Virginia11.9%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Tyler County5.0% West Virginia9.7%	5.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Tyler County2.1% West Virginia4.5%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Tyler County1.4% West Virginia4.7%	1.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Tyler County1.2% West Virginia2.7%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Tyler County0.8% West Virginia1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Tyler County9.8% West Virginia7.0%	9.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Tyler County5.1% West Virginia7.1%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tyler County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 21.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like West Virginia's: 45.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Tyler 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 Tyler 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 Tyler 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.

• Tyler County
• West Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Tyler County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tyler County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Tyler County now leave 31 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 Tyler County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Tyler County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tyler County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.7%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tyler County is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau