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Commute Time Burden in Morehouse Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morehouse Parish spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Morehouse 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 Morehouse Parish would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,081 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)
Morehouse Parish 20.1 min 40.3 min 168 hrs/yr $5,201 413
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

Morehouse Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Morehouse Parish. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morehouse Parish

  • Car: 91.9%
  • Worked at Home: 4.1%
  • Walked: 3.4%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Morehouse Parish, versus 0.9% in Louisiana.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morehouse Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morehouse 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 94.8% 0.9% 1.5% 1.1% 0.5% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 94.8% 1.1% 2.2% 1.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 95.7% 1.0% 1.9% 0.9% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 95.6% 1.2% 1.4% 1.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.7% 1.0% 1.5% 1.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 96.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 96.9% 0.8% 0.8% 1.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 97.0% 0.8% 0.7% 1.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 97.4% 0.8% 0.7% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 97.2% 1.1% 0.6% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 97.3% 1.1% 0.5% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 96.2% 0.8% 1.6% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 96.1% 1.0% 2.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 93.1% 2.5% 3.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 92.1% 3.6% 3.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.9% 4.1% 3.4% 0.7% 0.0% 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 2017 at 97.4%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morehouse Parish: its share of workers rose from 0.9% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Morehouse Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morehouse Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Morehouse 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
4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
16.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morehouse Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 13.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Morehouse 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 Morehouse 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 Morehouse 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 Morehouse Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:14 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:16 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:18 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:19 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:18 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:18 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:17 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:14 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:13 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:15 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:08 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morehouse Parish were on the road by 7:12 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Louisiana, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Morehouse Parish now leave 26 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 Morehouse Parish has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Morehouse Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Morehouse Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.1 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 4.1% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.4% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morehouse Parish is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morehouse Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morehouse Parish, LA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,551 residents against a local median of 19,819. Morehouse Parish, LA's work from home, at 4.1%, runs 29% below the 5.8% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 5.1% on work from home, so Morehouse Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morehouse Parish, LA has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morehouse Parish, LA 24,551 20.1 min #4/6 4.1% #4/6 7:12 AM #2/6
West Carroll Parish, LA 9,464 20.4 min 5.8% 7:17 AM
Ashley County, AR 18,425 15.7 min 3.3% 6:59 AM
Richland Parish, LA 19,819 18.6 min 6.1% 7:12 AM
Ouachita Parish, LA 158,478 18.0 min 8.3% 7:26 AM
Union Parish, LA 20,797 27.7 min 3.8% 7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,201 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

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

How common is public transit use in Morehouse 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.

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).