Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · WV · GEOID 54147752024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Cheat Lake, West Virginia
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 23.8 min one way; 13.8% worked from home, 78.7% drove alone, and 5.0% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip23.8 min±3.6 min MOE
Worked from home13.8%±3.7 pp MOE
Drove alone78.7%±4.4 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.0%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Cheat Lake CDP's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.9 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.2 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Cheat Lake CDP residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 78.7%; 0.0% used public transit and 13.8% worked from home.
Each share uses 5,866 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Cheat Lake CDP compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 44th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 56% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 60% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 64% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Cheat Lake CDP's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 5,866 workers age 16+, including 5,059 workers with reported travel time and 807 home workers.
Population estimate10,902± 787 MOE
Workers age 16+5,866± 530 MOE
Workers with travel time5,059± 490 MOE
Estimated home workers807± 227 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All West Virginia reports →Comparable West Virginia commute records for Cheat Lake CDP
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.