Commuting in Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu Parish: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Calcasieu Parish spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.
Calcasieu Parish holds about 4.5% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 3.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Calcasieu Parish would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,831 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)
Calcasieu Parish
17.7 min
35.4 min
148 hrs/yr
$4,578
1,203
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
17.7
minutes to get to work in
Calcasieu Parish.
That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 87% of counties in Louisiana
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Calcasieu Parish
Car:
91.0%
Worked at Home:
5.6%
Walked:
1.6%
Other:
0.9%
Bicycle:
0.3%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Taxi:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Public transit is unusually rare in Calcasieu Parish: 3.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.2% vs 0.9%).
Commute Mode Trends in Calcasieu Parish, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Calcasieu 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
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
94.0%
1.9%
1.8%
1.2%
0.3%
0.4%
0.1%
0.4%
2010
94.5%
1.9%
1.6%
0.9%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
2011
94.7%
1.7%
1.6%
1.1%
0.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
2012
95.2%
1.7%
1.3%
0.9%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.3%
2013
94.9%
1.8%
1.4%
0.9%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.4%
2014
95.2%
1.8%
1.3%
0.9%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.3%
2015
94.7%
1.8%
1.4%
1.1%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
2016
94.7%
1.9%
1.3%
1.0%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
94.3%
2.1%
1.5%
1.2%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
2018
94.1%
2.3%
1.4%
1.3%
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
94.1%
2.4%
1.6%
1.0%
0.3%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
2020
94.0%
2.9%
1.7%
0.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
92.9%
3.6%
2.0%
0.9%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
2022
92.2%
4.6%
1.9%
0.8%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
91.8%
5.1%
1.7%
0.9%
0.2%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2024
91.0%
5.6%
1.6%
0.9%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 95.2%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Calcasieu Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Calcasieu Parish
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Calcasieu Parish?
The bars show when commuters in Calcasieu 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 AMCalcasieu Parish11.1%Louisiana8.3%
11.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMCalcasieu Parish5.8%Louisiana4.7%
5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMCalcasieu Parish5.7%Louisiana5.4%
5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMCalcasieu Parish8.9%Louisiana10.1%
8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMCalcasieu Parish11.0%Louisiana10.8%
11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMCalcasieu Parish17.5%Louisiana16.1%
17.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMCalcasieu Parish10.4%Louisiana11.9%
10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMCalcasieu Parish7.8%Louisiana9.6%
7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMCalcasieu Parish3.7%Louisiana3.9%
3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMCalcasieu Parish4.3%Louisiana5.0%
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMCalcasieu Parish1.5%Louisiana2.3%
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMCalcasieu Parish0.9%Louisiana1.0%
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMCalcasieu Parish5.9%Louisiana5.4%
5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMCalcasieu Parish5.5%Louisiana5.3%
5.5%
Calcasieu ParishLouisianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Calcasieu Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 22.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu 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
Calcasieu Parish
Louisiana
United States
2009
7:19 AM
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:19 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:20 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:20 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:20 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:21 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:20 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:19 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:18 AM
7:22 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:16 AM
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:15 AM
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:12 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:13 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:14 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:13 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:13 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Calcasieu Parish were on the road by 7:13 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Calcasieu Parish now leave 25 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 Calcasieu Parish has moved 2 minutes earlier.
How does Calcasieu Parish's commute time compare?
Metric
Calcasieu Parish
Louisiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
17.7 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
12:00 AM – 04:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
5.6%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.6%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Calcasieu Parish is 17.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.
Calcasieu Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Calcasieu Parish, LA is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 207,051 residents against a local median of 31,924. The measure that sets Calcasieu Parish, LA apart most is work from home: 5.6%, 39% above the local median of 4.0%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.7 min against a local median of 23.5 min, 24% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 24% below the local median it puts Calcasieu Parish, LA at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.7% on work from home, so Calcasieu Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Calcasieu Parish, LA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana?
Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,578 at a typical national wage. That's 17% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Louisiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
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).