Wood County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Wood County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wood County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Wood County holds about 4.7% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 3.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wood County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,844 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)
Wood County	17.8 min	35.7 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,610	1,184
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

Randolph County (16.4 min)
Ohio County (17.0 min)
Pocahontas County (17.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in West Virginia

Hampshire County (40.3 min)
Morgan County (35.8 min)
Monroe County (33.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Wood County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.8 minutes to get to work in Wood County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in West Virginia

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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wood County

Commute Mode Trends in Wood County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wood 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.3%	1.9%	2.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	93.5%	2.1%	2.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	93.6%	2.2%	2.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.8%	2.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.5%	2.2%	1.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	94.6%	2.1%	1.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	2.5%	1.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	2.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	2.6%	2.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	92.8%	2.8%	2.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.4%	3.3%	2.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	3.6%	2.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	4.6%	2.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	6.9%	1.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.7%	8.6%	2.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.1%	9.9%	1.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 86.1% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wood County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 8.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.9% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wood County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wood County?

The bars show when commuters in Wood 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wood County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are less common than in West Virginia: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in West Virginia: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Wood 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 Wood 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 Wood 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	Wood County	West Virginia	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wood County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Wood County now leave 2 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 Wood County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Wood County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wood County	West Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.8 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	9.9%	9.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wood County is 17.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wood County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Wood County, WV is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 83,389 residents against a local median of 8,286. Where Wood County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 38% below the local median of 28.6 min at 17.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 12.2 min on one-way commute, so Wood County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wood County, WV has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wood County, WV	83,389	17.8 min #1/6	9.9% #4/6	7:36 AM #6/6
Wirt County, WV	5,053	32.2 min	11.8%	7:23 AM
Washington County, OH	58,978	20.1 min	9.1%	7:20 AM
Pleasants County, WV	7,521	28.6 min	12.4%	6:37 AM
Jackson County, WV	27,705	25.5 min	10.5%	7:16 AM
Ritchie County, WV	8,286	31.3 min	9.8%	6:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wood County, West Virginia.

Is commuting expensive in Wood County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 149 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,610 at a typical national wage. That's 17% less than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Wood 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.

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).