De Soto Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in De Soto Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in De Soto Parish spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 230 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

De Soto Parish holds about 0.6% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in De Soto Parish would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,849 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)
De Soto Parish	27.6 min	55.1 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,123	1,060
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.

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On average, it takes 27.6 minutes to get to work in De Soto Parish. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 86% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in De Soto Parish

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 4.3%
• Other: 2.2%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in De Soto Parish: 3.1 times less than the Louisiana average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in De Soto Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in De Soto 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.7%	2.2%	1.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.6%	2.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	94.4%	2.1%	0.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	95.6%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	96.7%	1.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	95.5%	2.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	95.9%	1.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	96.1%	1.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	95.8%	2.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	95.2%	1.9%	0.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	94.6%	1.7%	0.3%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2020	93.0%	1.9%	1.5%	1.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	92.6%	2.2%	2.1%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	92.2%	2.5%	2.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	91.6%	3.5%	2.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.8%	4.3%	2.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2013 at 96.7% and lowest in 2023 at 91.6%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in De Soto Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 4.3% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in De Soto Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in De Soto Parish?

The bars show when commuters in De Soto 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 De Soto Parish9.8% Louisiana8.3%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM De Soto Parish4.6% Louisiana4.7%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM De Soto Parish4.7% Louisiana5.4%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM De Soto Parish13.6% Louisiana10.1%	13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM De Soto Parish10.8% Louisiana10.8%	10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM De Soto Parish14.4% Louisiana16.1%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM De Soto Parish15.8% Louisiana11.9%	15.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM De Soto Parish6.3% Louisiana9.6%	6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM De Soto Parish2.8% Louisiana3.9%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM De Soto Parish3.4% Louisiana5.0%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM De Soto Parish1.2% Louisiana2.3%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM De Soto Parish1.2% Louisiana1.0%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM De Soto Parish5.9% Louisiana5.4%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM De Soto Parish5.6% Louisiana5.3%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in De Soto Parish is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Louisiana. Early starts are about as common as in Louisiana: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 De Soto 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 De Soto 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 De Soto 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	De Soto Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in De Soto Parish were on the road by 7:14 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in De Soto Parish now leave 24 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 De Soto Parish has moved 2 minutes later.

How does De Soto Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	De Soto Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.6 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	4.3%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in De Soto Parish is 27.6 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau