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Richland Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Richland Parish, 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 Richland Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Richland 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 155 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.

Richland Parish holds about 0.4% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Richland Parish would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,919 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)
Richland Parish 18.6 min 37.2 min 155 hrs/yr $4,799 393
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

Richland Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Richland Parish. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 73% of counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Richland Parish

  • Car: 90.6%
  • Worked at Home: 6.1%
  • Other: 1.5%
  • Walked: 1.0%
  • Public Transportation: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Richland Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Richland 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 Other Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 94.5% 2.1% 1.3% 1.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2010 95.7% 1.8% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
2011 97.4% 1.4% 0.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 96.8% 1.8% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 96.8% 1.7% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 96.4% 2.0% 0.6% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.8% 2.2% 0.9% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2016 96.3% 1.5% 1.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 96.7% 1.0% 1.0% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2018 96.1% 0.9% 1.2% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2019 95.0% 1.6% 1.1% 1.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2020 94.0% 1.9% 1.6% 1.6% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 91.9% 4.7% 1.1% 1.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 92.0% 4.7% 1.2% 1.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.5% 5.0% 1.6% 1.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.6% 6.1% 1.5% 1.0% 0.7% 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 2011 at 97.4%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Richland Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Richland Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richland Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Richland 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
5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
20.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Richland Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 56.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.1%) 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 Richland 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 Richland 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 Richland 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 Richland Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:23 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:25 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:26 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:28 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:29 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:49 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:47 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:35 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:32 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:24 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:14 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Richland Parish were on the road by 7:12 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Richland 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 Richland Parish has moved 12 minutes earlier.

How does Richland Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Richland Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.6 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 6.1% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.0% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.7% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Richland Parish is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Richland Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Richland Parish, LA is typical in size for this group, 19,819 residents against a local median of 19,403, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Nothing separates Richland Parish, LA sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 9% below the local median at 18.6 min against 20.4 min. Richland Parish, LA has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Richland Parish, LA 19,819 18.6 min #2/6 6.1% #4/6 7:12 AM #3/6
Franklin Parish, LA 19,403 20.8 min 6.5% 7:17 AM
Ouachita Parish, LA 158,478 18.0 min 8.3% 7:26 AM
Morehouse Parish, LA 24,551 20.1 min 4.1% 7:12 AM
Caldwell Parish, LA 9,498 22.2 min 6.5% 6:29 AM
West Carroll Parish, LA 9,464 20.4 min 5.8% 7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Richland Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Richland Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,799 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Louisiana have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).