East Baton Rouge Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in East Baton Rouge Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in East Baton Rouge Parish spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting.

That is about the same time on the road as the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way.

East Baton Rouge Parish holds about 9.6% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 9.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in East Baton Rouge Parish would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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)
East Baton Rouge Parish	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,487	2,108
Louisiana	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,502	1,164
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 21.2 minutes to get to work in East Baton Rouge Parish. That's 5% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.4%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Public Transportation: 1.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in East Baton Rouge Parish: 5.2 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in East Baton Rouge Parish: 3.2 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

How does East Baton Rouge Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	East Baton Rouge Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 min	21.3 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.4%	7.2%	13.4%
Walked	2.1%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in East Baton Rouge Parish is about the same as in Louisiana.

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau