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Assumption Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Assumption Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Assumption Parish spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

Assumption Parish holds about 0.4% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Assumption Parish would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,814 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)
Assumption Parish 27.2 min 54.5 min 227 hrs/yr $7,034 1,198
Louisiana 21.3 min 42.5 min 177 hrs/yr $5,493 1,164
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: Louisiana Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
  2. Madison Parish (13.1 min)
  3. St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. West Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  2. East Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  3. St. Helena Parish (32.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Assumption Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.2 minutes to get to work in Assumption Parish. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Assumption Parish

  • Car: 93.1%
  • Worked at Home: 4.3%
  • Walked: 1.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.9%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Assumption Parish, versus 0.1% in Louisiana.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Assumption Parish, versus 0.2% in Louisiana.

Biking is essentially absent in Assumption Parish, versus 0.3% in Louisiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Assumption Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Assumption Parish 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 Public Transportation Other Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 94.1% 1.5% 0.7% 1.2% 2.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 94.5% 1.3% 1.0% 1.1% 1.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 95.3% 1.1% 0.9% 0.6% 1.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 94.6% 1.1% 0.8% 0.6% 2.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 93.3% 1.1% 1.3% 0.5% 3.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.7% 1.3% 1.5% 0.5% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.0% 1.3% 0.7% 0.1% 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.7% 1.4% 0.7% 0.2% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.5% 1.5% 1.0% 0.2% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.4% 2.8% 0.8% 0.6% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 92.9% 2.7% 1.3% 1.0% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 92.4% 3.4% 1.6% 0.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 91.4% 3.3% 1.7% 1.3% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 90.2% 5.1% 1.0% 1.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 93.4% 2.9% 1.9% 1.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.1% 4.3% 1.3% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2017 at 95.5% and lowest in 2022 at 90.2%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 93.1% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Assumption Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 4.3% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Assumption Parish

  • Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Louisiana's 64 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:32 AM.
  • Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Louisiana's 64 counties: 35.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Assumption Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Assumption Parish 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 Louisiana for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
19.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
14.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
6.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.2%

Assumption Parish Louisiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Assumption Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 35.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 36.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.8%) 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 Assumption Parish, 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 Assumption Parish 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 Assumption Parish next to Louisiana 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 Assumption Parish Louisiana United States
2009 6:42 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 6:44 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 6:41 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:40 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 6:44 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:47 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:41 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:36 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:33 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:31 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:30 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:25 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:37 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:41 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:37 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:32 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Assumption Parish were on the road by 6:32 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Assumption Parish now leave 66 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 Assumption Parish has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Assumption Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Assumption Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.2 min 21.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 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 4.3% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.3% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.9% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Assumption Parish is 27.2 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Louisiana. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Assumption Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Assumption Parish, LA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,480 residents against a local median of 47,828. Where Assumption Parish, LA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 21% below the local median of 5.5% at 4.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 27.2 min against a local median of 23.5 min, 16% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 16% above the local median it puts Assumption Parish, LA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 3.5% on work from home, so Assumption Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Assumption Parish, LA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Assumption Parish, LA 20,480 27.2 min #5/6 4.3% #6/6 6:32 AM #1/6
St. James Parish, LA 19,390 25.7 min 5.4% 6:51 AM
Ascension Parish, LA 130,307 28.1 min 8.9% 7:05 AM
Iberville Parish, LA 29,819 18.1 min 5.3% 7:06 AM
St. Mary Parish, LA 47,828 15.5 min 5.5% 7:16 AM
St. Martin Parish, LA 51,353 23.5 min 8.1% 7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Assumption Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 227 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,034 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Assumption Parish, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana?

Among counties in Louisiana, the shortest average commutes are in East Carroll Parish (11.4 min), Madison Parish (13.1 min), St. Mary Parish (15.5 min). The longest are in West Feliciana Parish (32.8 min), East Feliciana Parish (32.8 min), St. Helena Parish (32.4 min).