Cameron Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cameron Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cameron Parish spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Cameron Parish holds about 0.1% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cameron Parish would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,313 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)
Cameron Parish	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,783	866
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

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On average, it takes 22.4 minutes to get to work in Cameron Parish. That's about the same as 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 0.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cameron Parish

• Car: 99.3%
• Worked at Home: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is essentially absent in Cameron Parish, versus 1.8% in Louisiana.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Cameron Parish: 19.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.4% vs 8.1%).

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Cameron Parish, versus 2.2% in Louisiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Cameron Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cameron 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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• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
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• Bicycle
• Walked
• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked	Other
2009	90.2%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.1%	3.8%
2010	92.0%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.1%	2.3%
2011	94.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	2.1%
2012	94.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	2.6%
2013	94.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	2.9%
2014	95.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	2.3%
2015	94.4%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	2.4%
2016	93.9%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	2.6%
2017	95.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	2.8%
2018	93.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	3.5%
2019	93.0%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	1.6%
2020	92.8%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	1.4%
2021	94.9%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%	0.2%
2022	93.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.1%	0.2%
2023	97.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2024	99.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	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. Overall its share rose from 90.2% in 2009 to 99.3% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.5% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Cameron Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cameron Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Cameron 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 Cameron Parish21.7% Louisiana8.3%	21.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cameron Parish3.6% Louisiana4.7%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cameron Parish1.4% Louisiana5.4%	1.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cameron Parish9.2% Louisiana10.1%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cameron Parish13.5% Louisiana10.8%	13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cameron Parish19.2% Louisiana16.1%	19.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cameron Parish14.2% Louisiana11.9%	14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cameron Parish2.5% Louisiana9.6%	2.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cameron Parish1.4% Louisiana3.9%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cameron Parish1.3% Louisiana5.0%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cameron Parish0.9% Louisiana2.3%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cameron Parish0.0% Louisiana1.0%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cameron Parish8.3% Louisiana5.4%	8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cameron Parish2.9% Louisiana5.3%	2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cameron Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 21.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 26.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.4%) 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 Cameron 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 Cameron 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 Cameron 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.

• Cameron Parish
• Louisiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cameron Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:56 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:50 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:43 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:38 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:34 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:41 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:45 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:46 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:46 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:45 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:51 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:52 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cameron Parish were on the road by 7:01 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:06 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cameron Parish now leave 37 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 Cameron Parish has moved 16 minutes later.

How does Cameron Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Cameron Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 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	0.4%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cameron Parish is 22.4 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau