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Commute Time Burden in Grant Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant Parish spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Grant Parish holds about 0.5% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant Parish would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,335 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)
Grant Parish 22.6 min 45.2 min 188 hrs/yr $5,836 544
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

Grant Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Grant Parish. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grant Parish

  • Car: 94.8%
  • Worked at Home: 3.1%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Grant Parish: 35.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grant Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant 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 Walked Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 95.2% 1.5% 1.1% 1.3% 0.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 95.4% 1.2% 0.9% 1.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 96.1% 1.2% 0.9% 0.7% 0.4% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 96.0% 1.2% 0.6% 1.2% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 96.4% 1.0% 0.8% 0.9% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 94.5% 1.7% 0.8% 2.0% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 93.8% 2.6% 0.6% 2.1% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 94.5% 2.0% 0.5% 2.3% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 93.6% 2.2% 0.7% 2.7% 0.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 93.0% 2.2% 0.5% 3.5% 0.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 92.7% 1.9% 1.6% 3.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 94.6% 0.8% 1.4% 2.7% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 92.6% 2.9% 1.8% 2.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 93.7% 2.5% 1.7% 1.9% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 94.4% 2.4% 1.5% 1.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 94.8% 3.1% 1.4% 0.7% 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 was highest in 2013 at 96.4% and lowest in 2021 at 92.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 95.2% in 2009 and 94.8% in 2024. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grant Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Grant Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Grant 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
16.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
1.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grant Parish is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:09 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:09 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:06 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:05 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:08 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:06 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:07 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:07 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:08 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:07 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:07 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:02 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:00 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant Parish were on the road by 7:00 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:09 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Grant Parish now leave 38 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 Grant Parish has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Grant Parish in the whole series.

How does Grant Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Grant Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.6 min 21.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 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 3.1% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Grant Parish is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% 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

Grant Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grant Parish, LA is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,095 residents against a local median of 14,789. Grant Parish, LA's work from home, at 3.1%, runs 38% below the 5.0% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.6 min against a local median of 18.4 min, 23% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% above the local median it puts Grant Parish, LA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 3.0% on work from home, so Grant Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Grant Parish, LA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Grant Parish, LA 22,095 22.6 min #6/6 3.1% #6/6 7:00 AM #3/6
Winn Parish, LA 13,467 22.3 min 5.0% 6:41 AM
Rapides Parish, LA 127,522 17.0 min 5.5% 7:20 AM
LaSalle Parish, LA 14,789 18.4 min 3.5% 7:10 AM
Natchitoches Parish, LA 36,692 17.0 min 3.6% 7:25 AM
Caldwell Parish, LA 9,498 22.2 min 6.5% 6:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grant Parish, Louisiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,836 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

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

How common is public transit use in Grant Parish, Louisiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Louisiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Louisiana have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).