Charleston

City Commute Profile

Charleston, WV

Where Charleston’s 20,802 resident workers go each day — 49.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is South Charleston.

West VirginiaLODES 2023 data
84
Commute Score

84 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Charleston at a glance
Employed Residents
20,802
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
10.5mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
49.2%
Share working within the area
Work from home
13.0%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
South Charleston
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Charleston proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Charleston commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Charleston

20,802 commutes, one dot at a time

Charleston

Where 20,802 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Charleston, by worker count.

1Charleston0.0 mi10,235
2South Charleston4.6 mi1,802
3Huntington44.0 mi518
4Dunbar6.1 mi385
5Teays Valley18.1 mi372
6Beckley46.1 mi323
7St. Albans10.5 mi229
8Cross Lanes9.6 mi211

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Charleston.

1Charleston0.0 mi10,235
2South Charleston4.6 mi2,381
3St. Albans10.5 mi1,562
4Teays Valley18.1 mi1,499
5Cross Lanes9.6 mi1,374
6Dunbar6.1 mi1,178
7Huntington44.0 mi1,019
8Nitro11.8 mi735

Top industries

The sectors that employ Charleston’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance27.2%
PAPublic Administration16.6%
RTRetail Trade7.9%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services7.5%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.0%
FIFinance and Insurance5.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.4%
EDEducational Services5.3%
INInformation2.7%

Charleston city profile

Who lives in Charleston — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
47,421
Median age
43.0yrs
Median household income
$65,812
Median home value
$203,300
Median gross rent
$908/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
45.2%
Poverty rate
15.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Charleston

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

4 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps99%
5 Gbps99%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Charleston

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).