Avoyelles Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Avoyelles Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Avoyelles Parish spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Avoyelles Parish holds about 0.8% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Avoyelles Parish would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,458 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)
Avoyelles Parish	23.8 min	47.6 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,145	651
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.

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On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Avoyelles Parish. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Avoyelles Parish

• Car: 88.5%
• Worked at Home: 5.5%
• Other: 3.6%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Avoyelles Parish: 54673667.3 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Avoyelles Parish: 67514090.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Avoyelles Parish: 9.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Avoyelles Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Avoyelles 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.1%	2.9%	0.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.6%	2.6%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	2.5%	0.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.5%	2.9%	0.7%	2.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	2.6%	1.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	2.5%	1.5%	2.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	2.2%	1.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	1.9%	1.4%	2.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	1.6%	1.7%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	1.9%	1.5%	2.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	2.4%	2.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	2.7%	3.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	3.4%	2.1%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.4%	3.2%	2.7%	2.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	3.4%	3.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.5%	5.5%	3.6%	2.3%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2010 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Avoyelles Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 5.5% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Avoyelles Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Avoyelles Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Avoyelles 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	12:00-4:59 AM Avoyelles Parish15.5% Louisiana8.3%	15.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Avoyelles Parish7.6% Louisiana4.7%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Avoyelles Parish5.2% Louisiana5.4%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Avoyelles Parish11.6% Louisiana10.1%	11.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Avoyelles Parish9.3% Louisiana10.8%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Avoyelles Parish13.4% Louisiana16.1%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Avoyelles Parish11.4% Louisiana11.9%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Avoyelles Parish10.3% Louisiana9.6%	10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Avoyelles Parish1.9% Louisiana3.9%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Avoyelles Parish1.3% Louisiana5.0%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Avoyelles Parish1.4% Louisiana2.3%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Avoyelles Parish0.7% Louisiana1.0%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Avoyelles Parish5.5% Louisiana5.4%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Avoyelles Parish5.2% Louisiana5.3%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Avoyelles Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 28.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.9%) 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 Avoyelles 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 Avoyelles 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 Avoyelles 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.

• Avoyelles Parish
• Louisiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Avoyelles Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:59 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Avoyelles Parish were on the road by 7:02 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Avoyelles Parish now leave 36 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 Avoyelles Parish has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Avoyelles Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Avoyelles Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.5%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Avoyelles Parish is 23.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau