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Plaquemines Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Plaquemines Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Plaquemines Parish spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Plaquemines Parish holds about 0.5% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Plaquemines Parish would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,469 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)
Plaquemines Parish 23.9 min 47.8 min 199 hrs/yr $6,173 2,269
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

Plaquemines Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Plaquemines Parish. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Plaquemines Parish

  • Car: 90.7%
  • Worked at Home: 5.9%
  • Walked: 2.0%
  • Other: 0.9%
  • Taxi: 0.5%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Plaquemines Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Plaquemines 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 Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 95.2% 1.5% 1.8% 1.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 93.5% 2.0% 2.3% 1.4% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 93.6% 2.4% 1.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1%
2012 92.9% 1.9% 1.4% 2.9% 0.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1%
2013 92.2% 1.9% 2.0% 3.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1%
2014 90.9% 2.0% 2.9% 3.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.5% 0.2%
2015 92.4% 1.7% 2.9% 2.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
2016 93.8% 1.3% 2.7% 1.5% 0.0% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
2017 95.1% 1.4% 2.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0%
2018 95.2% 1.6% 2.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2019 95.2% 1.7% 1.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 95.8% 1.8% 1.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 93.6% 2.6% 2.5% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 93.9% 2.6% 2.6% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.2% 3.1% 3.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.7% 5.9% 2.0% 0.9% 0.5% 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 2020 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Plaquemines Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 2.0%.

Commute Start Times in Plaquemines Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Plaquemines Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Plaquemines 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
7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
18.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Plaquemines Parish is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 18.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.8% across Louisiana. Early starts are about as common as in Louisiana: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.6%) 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 Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:22 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:22 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:21 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:15 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:04 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:58 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:58 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:57 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:02 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:03 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:07 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:05 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Plaquemines Parish were on the road by 7:05 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Plaquemines Parish now leave 33 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 Plaquemines Parish has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Plaquemines Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Plaquemines Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.9 min 21.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 5.9% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.0% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Plaquemines Parish is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Plaquemines Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Plaquemines Parish, LA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,803 residents against a local median of 96,166. Plaquemines Parish, LA's work from home, at 5.9%, runs 29% below the 8.3% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 10.1% on work from home, so Plaquemines Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Plaquemines 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
Plaquemines Parish, LA 22,803 23.9 min #4/6 5.9% #5/6 7:05 AM #1/6
St. Bernard Parish, LA 44,403 30.6 min 8.3% 7:06 AM
Jefferson Parish, LA 430,689 21.6 min 8.2% 7:30 AM
Orleans Parish, LA 371,664 20.7 min 14.9% 7:57 AM
Lafourche Parish, LA 96,166 21.8 min 4.8% 7:09 AM
Hancock County, MS 46,167 30.7 min 11.4% 7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,173 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Plaquemines 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Plaquemines 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).