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Counties With the Shortest Commute in West Virginia (2026)

Wood has the lowest commute time of any county in West Virginia, at 20.8 min, followed by Monongalia and Randolph. Source: Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Shortest counties for commute time in West Virginia

Top 25 of 55 counties with data.

Ranked by avg commute time (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Shortest counties for commute time in West Virginia
RankCountyValue
1Wood20.8 min
2Monongalia21.0 min
3Randolph21.1 min
4Ohio21.1 min
5Cabell21.4 min
6Kanawha21.8 min
7Harrison22.4 min
8Pocahontas22.8 min
9Raleigh23.6 min
10Mercer24.0 min
11Marshall24.6 min
12Brooke24.8 min
13Hancock25.0 min
14Grant25.1 min
15Greenbrier25.2 min
16Wayne25.3 min
17Marion25.7 min
18Mineral27.3 min
19Putnam27.3 min
20Tucker27.4 min
21Mason27.5 min
22Taylor27.6 min
23Upshur28.1 min
24Logan28.4 min
25Lewis28.5 min

How this ranking works

This page ranks West Virginia counties by avg commute time, sorted so the shortest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For commute time, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh commute time against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of avg commute time.

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