Beauregard Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Beauregard Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beauregard 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 226 hours, about 9.4 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 5.9 minutes.

Beauregard Parish holds about 0.8% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Beauregard Parish would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,804 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)
Beauregard Parish	27.1 min	54.3 min	226 hrs/yr	$7,010	592
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 27.1 minutes to get to work in Beauregard Parish. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% 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 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beauregard Parish

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.0%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Beauregard Parish: 4.0 times more than the Louisiana average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Beauregard Parish: 31.7 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Beauregard Parish: 5.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beauregard Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beauregard 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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Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	93.6%	2.6%	1.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	2.6%	1.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	2.4%	2.1%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	1.6%	2.2%	2.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	1.8%	3.5%	2.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	1.8%	3.4%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	92.4%	1.3%	3.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	93.2%	1.4%	3.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	92.6%	1.6%	3.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	94.7%	1.3%	1.7%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	95.0%	1.9%	1.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	2.4%	1.0%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	93.9%	2.8%	1.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	3.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	94.1%	3.3%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	4.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2019 at 95.0% and lowest in 2013 at 91.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.6% in 2009 and 93.6% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Beauregard Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 4.0% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.2% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Beauregard Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beauregard Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Beauregard 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 Beauregard Parish17.4% Louisiana8.3%	17.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Beauregard Parish6.8% Louisiana4.7%	6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Beauregard Parish6.8% Louisiana5.4%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Beauregard Parish13.4% Louisiana10.1%	13.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Beauregard Parish13.5% Louisiana10.8%	13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Beauregard Parish13.8% Louisiana16.1%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Beauregard Parish8.0% Louisiana11.9%	8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Beauregard Parish5.4% Louisiana9.6%	5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Beauregard Parish1.5% Louisiana3.9%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Beauregard Parish3.3% Louisiana5.0%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Beauregard Parish1.4% Louisiana2.3%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Beauregard Parish0.1% Louisiana1.0%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Beauregard Parish5.0% Louisiana5.4%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Beauregard Parish3.6% Louisiana5.3%	3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Beauregard Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 31.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 40.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.5%) 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 Beauregard 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 Beauregard 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 Beauregard 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Beauregard Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:02 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:56 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:53 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:53 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:50 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:51 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:54 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:42 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beauregard Parish were on the road by 6:42 AM, 23 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:06 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Beauregard Parish now leave 55 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 Beauregard Parish has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Beauregard Parish in the whole series.

How does Beauregard Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Beauregard Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.1 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	4.0%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beauregard Parish is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau