Monroe Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Monroe, 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 Monroe: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monroe spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 129 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

Monroe holds about 0.9% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Monroe would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,601 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)
Monroe	15.5 min	31.0 min	129 hrs/yr	$4,002	1,881
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.

Monroe Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.5 minutes to get to work in Monroe. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Monroe

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

Commute Mode Trends in Monroe, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Monroe 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	90.7%	2.9%	1.2%	4.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.7%	2.2%	1.5%	4.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.9%	2.3%	1.4%	4.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.4%	2.0%	1.0%	3.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	1.6%	1.1%	3.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.8%	2.0%	1.2%	3.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.1%	2.3%	1.2%	3.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	92.5%	1.8%	1.6%	3.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	92.2%	2.0%	1.7%	2.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.8%	1.5%	1.9%	2.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.0%	1.5%	2.2%	3.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	91.1%	2.2%	2.2%	3.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	90.2%	3.1%	2.3%	2.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	87.1%	5.2%	3.2%	3.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.4%	7.4%	3.1%	2.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.9%	7.7%	3.5%	2.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 92.8%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Monroe: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 7.7% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 2.3% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Monroe

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Monroe?

The bars show when commuters in Monroe 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Monroe is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 7.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.1%) 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 Monroe, 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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	Monroe	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:51 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:56 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:53 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Monroe were on the road by 7:49 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Monroe now leave 11 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Monroe's commute time compare?

Metric	Monroe	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.5 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	7.7%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Monroe is 15.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

2.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Monroe, Louisiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 129 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,002 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Monroe, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Monroe, 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.