Commuting in Bossier Parish, 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 Parish: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Bossier Parish spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.
Bossier Parish holds about 2.8% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 2.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Bossier Parish would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,117 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 Parish
20.5 min
41.0 min
171 hrs/yr
$5,293
1,382
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.
On average, it takes
20.5
minutes to get to work in
Bossier Parish.
That's 9% 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 7.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Bossier Parish
Car:
89.8%
Worked at Home:
7.6%
Other:
1.0%
Walked:
0.8%
Public Transportation:
0.7%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bossier Parish: 3.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Biking is unusually rare in Bossier Parish: 9.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.3%).
Commute Mode Trends in Bossier Parish, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Bossier 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
Other
Walked
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
93.3%
1.9%
2.1%
2.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2010
92.9%
2.1%
2.5%
1.9%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2011
93.4%
2.1%
2.0%
1.7%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
2012
94.1%
2.1%
1.3%
1.6%
0.4%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
2013
93.9%
2.0%
1.3%
1.8%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
2014
93.3%
2.4%
1.2%
1.9%
0.5%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
2015
93.6%
2.6%
1.3%
1.4%
0.4%
0.1%
0.4%
0.1%
2016
94.2%
2.5%
1.1%
1.4%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2017
93.9%
2.9%
1.1%
1.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2018
94.3%
3.0%
0.9%
1.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
94.1%
3.0%
0.9%
1.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2020
91.7%
4.5%
1.1%
1.2%
1.0%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
91.0%
5.4%
1.1%
1.0%
1.0%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2022
90.4%
6.1%
1.1%
0.9%
1.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2023
89.6%
7.1%
1.0%
1.2%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
89.8%
7.6%
1.0%
0.8%
0.7%
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 2018 at 94.3% and lowest in 2023 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 3.5 percentage points.
Working from home gained the most ground in Bossier Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Bossier Parish
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bossier Parish?
The bars show when commuters in Bossier 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 AMBossier Parish22.3%Louisiana8.3%
22.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMBossier Parish2.2%Louisiana4.7%
2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMBossier Parish4.0%Louisiana5.4%
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMBossier Parish7.3%Louisiana10.1%
7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMBossier Parish10.2%Louisiana10.8%
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMBossier Parish13.9%Louisiana16.1%
13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMBossier Parish11.2%Louisiana11.9%
11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMBossier Parish8.6%Louisiana9.6%
8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMBossier Parish2.3%Louisiana3.9%
2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMBossier Parish3.3%Louisiana5.0%
3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMBossier Parish1.7%Louisiana2.3%
1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMBossier Parish2.1%Louisiana1.0%
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMBossier Parish5.5%Louisiana5.4%
5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMBossier Parish5.4%Louisiana5.3%
5.4%
Bossier ParishLouisianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Bossier Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 22.3% 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: 43.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 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 Bossier 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 Bossier 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
Bossier Parish
Louisiana
United States
2009
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:23 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:23 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:25 AM
7:22 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:20 AM
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:15 AM
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:14 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:08 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:07 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:07 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Bossier Parish were on the road by 7:09 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bossier Parish now leave 29 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 Parish has moved 6 minutes earlier.
How does Bossier Parish's commute time compare?
Metric
Bossier Parish
Louisiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.5 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
7.6%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
0.8%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.7%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Bossier Parish is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.
0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.
Bossier Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Bossier Parish, LA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 129,734 residents against a local median of 27,025. The measure that sets Bossier Parish, LA apart most is work from home: 7.6%, 77% above the local median of 4.3%.
The counties themselves spread 3.9% on work from home, so Bossier Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bossier Parish, LA has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Bossier Parish, Louisiana?
Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,293 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Bossier Parish, Louisiana?
Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Bossier Parish, 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.
How do commute times compare across 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).