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Bienville Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Bienville Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bienville Parish spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Bienville Parish holds about 0.3% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bienville Parish would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,612 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)
Bienville Parish 25.3 min 50.5 min 211 hrs/yr $6,529 437
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

Bienville Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 25.3 minutes to get to work in Bienville Parish. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bienville Parish

  • Car: 90.8%
  • Worked at Home: 6.9%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Bienville Parish, versus 0.9% in Louisiana.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bienville Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bienville 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 Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 93.9% 2.2% 1.9% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2010 93.5% 3.2% 1.5% 1.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 92.7% 3.5% 1.7% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2012 92.9% 4.0% 1.1% 1.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4%
2013 92.9% 4.7% 1.1% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 91.1% 5.3% 1.3% 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 92.2% 4.2% 1.4% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2016 94.1% 3.2% 1.3% 0.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 94.6% 2.8% 1.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 93.7% 2.9% 2.3% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 96.7% 1.1% 1.7% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 94.4% 3.4% 1.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 90.0% 6.4% 3.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 91.0% 5.9% 2.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 89.7% 6.9% 2.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2024 90.8% 6.9% 1.6% 0.7% 0.0% 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 2019 at 96.7% and lowest in 2023 at 89.7%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bienville Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Bienville Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bienville Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Bienville 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
7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
22.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
5.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bienville Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Bienville 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 Bienville 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 Bienville 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 Bienville Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:01 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:00 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:02 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:04 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:07 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:10 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:09 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:06 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:02 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:58 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:58 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:00 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:03 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:14 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bienville Parish were on the road by 7:14 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:01 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bienville Parish now leave 24 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 Bienville Parish has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bienville Parish in the whole series.

How does Bienville Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Bienville Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 25.3 min 21.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 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 6.9% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Bienville Parish is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bienville Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bienville Parish, LA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 12,636 residents against a local median of 14,881. The measure that sets Bienville Parish, LA apart most is one-way commute: 25.3 min, 36% above the local median of 18.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 6.9% against a local median of 5.4%, 27% above it. The counties themselves spread 7.2 min on one-way commute, so Bienville Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bienville Parish, LA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Bienville Parish, LA 12,636 25.3 min #6/6 6.9% #2/6 7:14 AM #3/6
Red River Parish, LA 7,443 18.5 min 3.2% 7:04 AM
Webster Parish, LA 35,820 20.3 min 6.2% 7:23 AM
Lincoln Parish, LA 48,172 15.7 min 11.5% 7:33 AM
Claiborne Parish, LA 13,828 23.0 min 2.6% 7:18 AM
Jackson Parish, LA 14,881 18.4 min 5.4% 7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bienville Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,529 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bienville Parish, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bienville 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.

How common is public transit use in Bienville Parish, Louisiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Louisiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Louisiana have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).