Evangeline Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Evangeline Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Evangeline 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 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Evangeline Parish holds about 0.7% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Evangeline Parish would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,184 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)
Evangeline Parish	21.1 min	42.3 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,461	585
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 21.1 minutes to get to work in Evangeline Parish. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 other means. About 3.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Evangeline Parish

• Car: 89.8%
• Other: 3.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.4%
• Walked: 2.7%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Evangeline Parish: 32.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Evangeline Parish: 4.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Evangeline Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Evangeline 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
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Other	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.4%	0.3%	2.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.3%	0.7%	2.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.4%	1.1%	2.7%	3.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.0%	1.2%	3.3%	2.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	1.5%	2.7%	3.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.2%	1.8%	1.9%	4.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.4%	1.7%	1.9%	3.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	0.9%	2.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	1.5%	1.4%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	1.7%	1.4%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.6%	1.8%	1.8%	2.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	90.3%	3.1%	1.7%	3.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	88.7%	4.1%	2.0%	4.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	89.2%	3.4%	3.1%	3.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	89.5%	4.5%	2.8%	2.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2024	89.8%	3.9%	3.4%	2.7%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2021 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 95.4% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Evangeline Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 2.7% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 4.5% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Evangeline Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Evangeline Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Evangeline 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 Evangeline Parish14.7% Louisiana8.3%	14.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Evangeline Parish5.9% Louisiana4.7%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Evangeline Parish5.3% Louisiana5.4%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Evangeline Parish12.6% Louisiana10.1%	12.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Evangeline Parish9.6% Louisiana10.8%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Evangeline Parish18.3% Louisiana16.1%	18.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Evangeline Parish11.5% Louisiana11.9%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Evangeline Parish5.9% Louisiana9.6%	5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Evangeline Parish0.9% Louisiana3.9%	0.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Evangeline Parish3.1% Louisiana5.0%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Evangeline Parish0.2% Louisiana2.3%	0.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Evangeline Parish0.6% Louisiana1.0%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Evangeline Parish3.0% Louisiana5.4%	3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Evangeline Parish8.5% Louisiana5.3%	8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Evangeline Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 25.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.3%) 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 Evangeline 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 Evangeline 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 Evangeline 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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• Louisiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Evangeline Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 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	7:13 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Evangeline Parish were on the road by 7:03 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:07 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Evangeline Parish now leave 35 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 Evangeline Parish has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Evangeline Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Evangeline Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	3.4%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Evangeline Parish is about the same as in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau