Wetzel County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wetzel County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wetzel County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 3% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Wetzel County holds about 0.8% of West Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wetzel County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,290 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)
Wetzel County	22.2 min	44.3 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,724	400
West Virginia	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,581	1,052
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 22.2 minutes to get to work in Wetzel County. That's 1% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Walked . About 2.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 90.6%
• Walked: 3.9%
• Other: 3.0%
• Worked at Home: 2.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Wetzel County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Wetzel County: 6.0 times less than the West Virginia average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Wetzel County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Wetzel County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Wetzel County: 3.3 times less than the West Virginia average (2.4% vs 8.0%).

How does Wetzel County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wetzel County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 min	21.6 min	22.5 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	2.4%	8.0%	13.4%
Walked	3.9%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.5%

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

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in West Virginia. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau