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Commuting in Upshur 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 Upshur County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Upshur County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way.

Upshur County holds about 1.3% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Upshur County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,230 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)
Upshur County 21.6 min 43.2 min 180 hrs/yr $5,575 854
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

Upshur County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Upshur County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Upshur County

  • Car: 84.0%
  • Worked at Home: 11.0%
  • Walked: 2.9%
  • Other: 2.0%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Upshur County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Upshur 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 Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 92.6% 4.6% 2.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 92.7% 4.3% 2.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 93.4% 3.5% 2.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 94.3% 2.5% 2.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 93.3% 2.3% 3.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 91.7% 3.3% 3.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 90.4% 4.0% 3.6% 1.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 90.0% 3.7% 4.0% 2.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 89.7% 3.9% 4.1% 2.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 88.6% 3.8% 3.5% 3.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 88.2% 3.2% 3.3% 4.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1.2%
2020 84.8% 6.7% 3.6% 4.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7%
2021 84.1% 7.6% 3.7% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2022 83.6% 8.1% 3.3% 4.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2023 84.3% 9.7% 2.8% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2024 84.0% 11.0% 2.9% 2.0% 0.1% 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 2012 at 94.3% and lowest in 2022 at 83.6%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 84.0% in 2024, down 8.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Upshur County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking peaked at 1.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Upshur County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Upshur County?

The bars show when commuters in Upshur 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
8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Upshur County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 21.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Upshur 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 Upshur 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 Upshur 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 Upshur County West Virginia United States
2009 7:25 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:22 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:24 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:24 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:22 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:23 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:25 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:23 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:20 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:23 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:19 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Upshur County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Upshur County now leave 19 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 Upshur County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Upshur County in the whole series.

How does Upshur County's commute time compare?

Metric Upshur County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.6 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.0% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.9% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Upshur County is about the same as in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Upshur County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Upshur County, WV is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 23,712 residents against a local median of 16,740. Where Upshur County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 66% above the local median of 6.6% at 11.0%.

The counties themselves spread 5.3% on work from home, so Upshur County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Upshur County, WV has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Upshur County, WV 23,712 21.6 min #3/6 11.0% #1/6 7:19 AM #4/6
Lewis County, WV 16,740 23.1 min 5.5% 7:09 AM
Barbour County, WV 15,424 27.1 min 6.6% 7:11 AM
Randolph County, WV 27,576 16.4 min 8.1% 7:36 AM
Harrison County, WV 64,984 20.2 min 8.3% 7:22 AM
Webster County, WV 8,144 25.5 min 3.0% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Upshur County, West Virginia.

Is commuting expensive in Upshur County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,575 at a typical national wage.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Upshur County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Upshur County, West Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Upshur 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).