Lafourche Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lafourche 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 Lafourche Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lafourche Parish spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Lafourche Parish holds about 2.1% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 2.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lafourche Parish would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,254 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)
Lafourche Parish	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,635	1,653
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

East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
Madison Parish (13.1 min)
St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana

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Lafourche Parish

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Lafourche Parish. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lafourche Parish

Biking is unusually rare in Lafourche Parish: 11.1 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lafourche Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lafourche 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	91.7%	2.9%	3.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	91.8%	2.7%	3.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	91.8%	2.6%	3.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	91.9%	2.5%	3.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	91.2%	2.5%	3.9%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	91.3%	2.3%	4.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	91.2%	2.5%	4.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	91.4%	2.5%	4.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	91.0%	2.4%	4.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	91.5%	2.6%	4.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	91.2%	2.9%	3.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	90.9%	3.3%	3.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.6%	3.5%	3.2%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.8%	3.8%	2.6%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.7%	4.0%	2.4%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	4.8%	1.8%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2012 at 91.9% and lowest in 2021 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 0.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lafourche Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Lafourche Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lafourche Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Lafourche 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		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lafourche Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 23.9% 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 (15.7%) 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 Lafourche 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 Lafourche 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 Lafourche 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	Lafourche Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:02 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lafourche Parish were on the road by 7:09 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lafourche Parish now leave 29 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 Lafourche Parish has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Lafourche Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Lafourche Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.8%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lafourche Parish is 21.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lafourche Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lafourche Parish, LA is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 96,166 residents against a local median of 51,396. Lafourche Parish, LA's work from home, at 4.8%, runs 25% below the 6.4% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.9% on work from home, so Lafourche Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lafourche Parish, LA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lafourche Parish, LA	96,166	21.8 min #3/6	4.8% #5/6	7:09 AM #4/6
Jefferson Parish, LA	430,689	21.6 min	8.2%	7:30 AM
St. Charles Parish, LA	51,396	23.3 min	7.7%	7:08 AM
Terrebonne Parish, LA	106,185	18.4 min	3.3%	7:14 AM
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA	40,683	30.1 min	6.4%	7:03 AM
St. James Parish, LA	19,390	25.7 min	5.4%	6:51 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,635 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana?

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).