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Commuting in Franklin Parish, 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 Franklin Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Franklin 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 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Franklin Parish holds about 0.4% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Franklin Parish would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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)
Franklin Parish 20.8 min 41.6 min 173 hrs/yr $5,376 417
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
  2. Madison Parish (13.1 min)
  3. St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. West Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  2. East Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  3. St. Helena Parish (32.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Franklin Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Franklin Parish. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Franklin Parish

  • Car: 86.9%
  • Worked at Home: 6.5%
  • Other: 5.0%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • Public Transportation: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Franklin Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Franklin 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.

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 Other Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 93.4% 1.8% 1.2% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2010 92.2% 2.8% 1.3% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2011 91.9% 2.6% 1.6% 3.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 91.8% 3.2% 1.9% 2.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 92.1% 3.8% 1.9% 1.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 92.8% 3.0% 1.6% 2.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2015 92.4% 2.6% 2.4% 2.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
2016 91.1% 3.6% 2.5% 2.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2017 92.3% 3.0% 2.3% 1.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2018 93.2% 2.7% 1.7% 2.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 93.8% 2.6% 1.2% 1.5% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 92.5% 2.2% 2.5% 2.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 92.5% 2.6% 3.3% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.5% 4.0% 3.7% 1.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 87.7% 5.7% 4.4% 1.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 86.9% 6.5% 5.0% 1.2% 0.4% 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 peaked in 2019 at 93.8%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Franklin Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Franklin Parish

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Louisiana's 64 counties: 66.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Franklin Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Franklin 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
5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
15.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
23.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
13.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Franklin Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 66.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.3%) 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Franklin Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:22 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:18 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 7:17 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:26 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:26 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:32 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:26 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:24 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:14 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:13 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:14 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Franklin Parish were on the road by 7:17 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Franklin Parish now leave 20 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 Franklin Parish has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Franklin Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Franklin Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.8 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 6.5% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.4% 0.9% 3.2%

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

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Franklin Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Franklin Parish, LA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 19,403 residents against a local median of 9,498. Nothing separates Franklin Parish, LA sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 6% above the local median at 6.5% against 6.1%. Franklin Parish, LA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Franklin Parish, LA 19,403 20.8 min #4/6 6.5% #2/6 7:17 AM #4/6
Richland Parish, LA 19,819 18.6 min 6.1% 7:12 AM
Tensas Parish, LA 3,935 20.5 min 3.5% 7:28 AM
Caldwell Parish, LA 9,498 22.2 min 6.5% 6:29 AM
Madison Parish, LA 9,514 13.1 min 3.2% 7:35 AM
Catahoula Parish, LA 8,580 30.3 min 13.1% 7:04 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Franklin Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,376 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Franklin Parish, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Louisiana?

Among counties in Louisiana, the shortest average commutes are in East Carroll Parish (11.4 min), Madison Parish (13.1 min), St. Mary Parish (15.5 min). The longest are in West Feliciana Parish (32.8 min), East Feliciana Parish (32.8 min), St. Helena Parish (32.4 min).