Livingston Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Livingston Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Livingston Parish spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 50% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 10.6 minutes.

Livingston Parish holds about 3.2% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 4.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Livingston Parish would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,294 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)
Livingston Parish	31.9 min	63.8 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,236	1,929
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

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On average, it takes 31.9 minutes to get to work in Livingston Parish. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Louisiana

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 working from home. About 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Livingston Parish

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.2%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Livingston Parish: 8.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Livingston Parish: 16.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Livingston Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Livingston 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.6%	2.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.2%	3.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.9%	3.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	3.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.3%	3.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.2%	2.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.4%	2.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.1%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.4%	3.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.4%	3.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.8%	4.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	4.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	93.4%	5.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	6.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	7.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2017 at 96.1%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Livingston Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Livingston Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Livingston Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Livingston 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 Livingston Parish13.6% Louisiana8.3%	13.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Livingston Parish6.7% Louisiana4.7%	6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Livingston Parish10.6% Louisiana5.4%	10.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Livingston Parish11.5% Louisiana10.1%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Livingston Parish9.9% Louisiana10.8%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Livingston Parish14.0% Louisiana16.1%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Livingston Parish8.8% Louisiana11.9%	8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Livingston Parish7.9% Louisiana9.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Livingston Parish2.1% Louisiana3.9%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Livingston Parish4.1% Louisiana5.0%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Livingston Parish1.9% Louisiana2.3%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Livingston Parish1.1% Louisiana1.0%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Livingston Parish4.3% Louisiana5.4%	4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Livingston Parish3.5% Louisiana5.3%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Livingston Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 31.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 40.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Livingston 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Livingston Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:00 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:58 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:56 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:50 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:49 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:45 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:44 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:44 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:47 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:45 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:46 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Livingston Parish were on the road by 6:53 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:57 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Livingston Parish now leave 45 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 Livingston Parish has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Livingston Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Livingston Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	7.2%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Livingston Parish is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau