Chalmette Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chalmette, 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 Chalmette: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chalmette spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Chalmette holds about 0.5% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chalmette would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,131 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)
Chalmette	30.3 min	60.6 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,828	2,739
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.

Chalmette Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.3 minutes to get to work in Chalmette. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chalmette

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Chalmette: 3.4 times more than the Louisiana average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chalmette, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chalmette 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	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	3.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.0%	2.3%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.2%	1.3%	1.9%	1.1%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	95.4%	0.6%	1.2%	1.3%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	92.9%	1.3%	1.4%	1.7%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	94.6%	1.1%	1.3%	1.5%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.5%	1.4%	1.4%	1.2%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.9%	1.8%	1.2%	1.5%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.0%	1.7%	1.1%	1.4%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	0.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%
2020	91.4%	3.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.9%	1.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%
2022	90.9%	5.2%	0.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	6.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	8.9%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	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 95.4%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chalmette: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 7th most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Chalmette

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chalmette?

The bars show when commuters in Chalmette 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		4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chalmette is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are about as common as in Louisiana: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 46.0% 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 Chalmette, 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 Chalmette 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 Chalmette 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	Chalmette	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chalmette 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 Chalmette 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 Chalmette has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Chalmette in the whole series.

How does Chalmette's commute time compare?

Metric	Chalmette	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 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	8.9%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chalmette is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

1.3% 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

Chalmette, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chalmette, LA	23,238	30.3 min #2/2	8.9% #1/2	7:12 AM #1/2
Terrytown, LA	25,652	23.6 min	6.8%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chalmette, Louisiana.

Is living in Chalmette, Louisiana good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 253 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,828 at a typical national wage. That's 42% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Chalmette, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Chalmette, 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.