Bossier City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bossier City, Louisiana: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Bossier City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bossier City spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bossier City would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,713 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)
Bossier City	16.6 min	33.2 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,283	2,984
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.

Bossier City Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.6 minutes to get to work in Bossier City. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bossier City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bossier City: 38.3 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bossier City: 3.3 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bossier City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bossier City 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	1.8%	0.6%	2.2%	2.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	91.7%	1.8%	0.5%	2.5%	2.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2011	91.5%	2.0%	0.5%	2.5%	2.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2012	93.1%	1.6%	0.6%	2.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	93.5%	1.3%	0.5%	2.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2014	93.0%	1.6%	0.8%	2.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	92.9%	1.9%	0.5%	2.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	93.9%	2.0%	0.6%	1.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.2%	2.8%	0.5%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	93.4%	2.9%	0.4%	1.4%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	93.5%	2.6%	0.4%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	92.8%	3.1%	1.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	91.7%	4.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	92.2%	4.0%	1.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	5.7%	1.5%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	90.3%	6.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 90.3% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bossier City: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bossier City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bossier City?

The bars show when commuters in Bossier City 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		30.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

Bossier City Louisiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bossier City is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 30.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 35.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 36.4% 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 Bossier City, 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 Bossier City 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 Bossier City 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	Bossier City	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:51 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bossier City were on the road by 7:02 AM, 30 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bossier City 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 Bossier City has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Bossier City's commute time compare?

Metric	Bossier City	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.6 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	6.5%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bossier City is 16.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

1.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bossier City, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Bossier City, LA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bossier City, LA	45,787	16.6 min #1/2	6.5% #2/2	7:02 AM #1/2
Shreveport, LA	153,357	17.1 min	6.7%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Bossier City, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 138 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,283 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Bossier City, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Bossier City, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.