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Commuting in Webster 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 Webster County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Webster County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

Webster County holds about 0.5% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Webster County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,639 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)
Webster County 25.5 min 51.1 min 213 hrs/yr $6,597 324
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

Webster County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 25.5 minutes to get to work in Webster County. That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Webster County

  • Car: 92.2%
  • Walked: 4.1%
  • Worked at Home: 3.0%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • 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 Webster County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Webster County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Webster 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 Walked Worked at Home Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 96.6% 1.4% 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 96.8% 1.2% 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 94.8% 2.9% 1.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 92.9% 4.3% 0.9% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 91.0% 4.9% 2.1% 1.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 89.2% 5.6% 3.1% 1.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 88.4% 5.6% 3.5% 2.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 86.7% 4.0% 3.2% 5.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 89.5% 2.9% 4.4% 3.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 89.9% 3.4% 3.5% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 90.9% 2.6% 2.4% 4.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.7% 2.4% 3.0% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 92.1% 3.4% 2.7% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.0% 2.6% 3.8% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.1% 3.6% 2.7% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 92.2% 4.1% 3.0% 0.7% 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 2010 at 96.8% and lowest in 2016 at 86.7%. Overall it fell from 96.6% in 2009 to 92.2% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points.

Walking gained the most ground in Webster County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points.

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

Walking peaked at 5.6% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 4.1%.

Commute Start Times in Webster County

  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe lowest share of rush-hour departures among West Virginia's 55 counties: only 31.1% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Webster County?

The bars show when commuters in Webster 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
4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
12.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
13.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
6.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
16.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Webster County is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.1% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 25.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 31.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.8%) 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 Webster 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 Webster 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 Webster 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 Webster County West Virginia United States
2009 7:12 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:23 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:19 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:20 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:16 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:12 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:11 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:16 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:11 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:06 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:37 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:02 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:09 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:12 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Webster County were on the road by 7:12 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across West Virginia, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 8 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Webster County now leave 26 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 Webster County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Webster County's commute time compare?

Metric Webster County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 25.5 min 21.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 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 3.0% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 4.1% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Webster County is 25.5 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Webster County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Webster County, WV is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,144 residents against a local median of 16,740. Where Webster County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 67% below the local median of 9.1% at 3.0%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 25.5 min against a local median of 21.6 min, 18% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% above the local median it puts Webster County, WV at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Webster County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Webster County, WV has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Webster County, WV 8,144 25.5 min #5/6 3.0% #6/6 7:12 AM #3/6
Braxton County, WV 12,208 28.0 min 9.5% 6:56 AM
Nicholas County, WV 24,277 21.6 min 4.8% 7:29 AM
Upshur County, WV 23,712 21.6 min 11.0% 7:19 AM
Pocahontas County, WV 7,784 17.2 min 9.1% 7:25 AM
Lewis County, WV 16,740 23.1 min 5.5% 7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Webster County, West Virginia.

Is living in Webster County, West Virginia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,597 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Webster County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Webster County, West Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Webster 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.

Which counties in West Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).