Red River Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Red River Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Red River Parish spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Red River Parish holds about 0.2% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Red River Parish would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,914 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)
Red River Parish	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,785	387
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.

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On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Red River Parish. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Red River Parish

• Car: 95.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Walked: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Red River Parish: 16.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 1.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Red River Parish: 4.0 times less than the Louisiana average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Red River Parish: just 0.1%, 19.8 times below the Louisiana average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Red River Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Red River 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	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.0%	1.1%	1.9%	1.3%	0.5%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	1.9%	1.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.5%	1.4%	3.2%	1.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.2%	1.1%	3.5%	1.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	2.1%	3.9%	1.3%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.8%	2.4%	4.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.0%	2.5%	4.8%	1.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.8%	3.4%	4.1%	1.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.6%	5.2%	4.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.5%	4.1%	3.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.5%	2.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.4%	1.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.0%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.8%	2.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.6%	3.2%	0.8%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2022 at 96.7% and lowest in 2017 at 89.6%. Overall it rose from 92.0% in 2009 to 95.6% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Red River Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 0.1% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 5.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 3.2%.

Commute Start Times in Red River Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Red River Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Red River 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 Red River Parish7.8% Louisiana8.3%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Red River Parish9.4% Louisiana4.7%	9.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Red River Parish6.6% Louisiana5.4%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Red River Parish15.0% Louisiana10.1%	15.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Red River Parish9.3% Louisiana10.8%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Red River Parish13.6% Louisiana16.1%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Red River Parish6.7% Louisiana11.9%	6.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Red River Parish6.2% Louisiana9.6%	6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Red River Parish0.6% Louisiana3.9%	0.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Red River Parish8.8% Louisiana5.0%	8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Red River Parish0.0% Louisiana2.3%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Red River Parish5.8% Louisiana1.0%	5.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Red River Parish2.4% Louisiana5.4%	2.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Red River Parish7.9% Louisiana5.3%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Red River Parish is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 23.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 35.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 Red River 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 Red River 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 Red River 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Red River Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:55 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:00 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:59 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:57 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:58 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:00 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Red River Parish were on the road by 7:04 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Red River Parish now leave 34 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 Red River Parish has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Red River Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Red River Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	3.2%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Red River Parish is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau