Sabine Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sabine 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 Sabine Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sabine 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 198 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 2.5 minutes.

Sabine 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 Sabine Parish would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,460 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)
Sabine Parish	23.8 min	47.6 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,150	317
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

East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
Madison Parish (13.1 min)
St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana

Compare commute times among different counties

Sabine Parish

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Sabine Parish. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% 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 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sabine Parish

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sabine Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sabine 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	4.3%	2.9%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.1%	4.2%	2.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.2%	3.9%	2.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.0%	3.6%	2.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.6%	2.6%	3.4%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.2%	2.8%	3.2%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.8%	3.1%	3.0%	2.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	90.4%	3.0%	3.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	90.8%	2.7%	2.8%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	91.9%	2.3%	2.0%	2.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2019	91.5%	2.7%	2.1%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2020	91.1%	3.0%	4.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	89.4%	3.0%	5.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	88.7%	4.2%	4.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2023	89.8%	4.1%	4.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	4.0%	3.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2018 at 91.9% and lowest in 2022 at 88.7%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.7% in 2009 and 90.6% in 2024. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sabine Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sabine Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Sabine 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		13.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		1.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sabine Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 24.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.2%) 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 Sabine 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 Sabine 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 Sabine 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	Sabine Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sabine Parish were on the road by 7:04 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sabine 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 Sabine Parish has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Sabine Parish in the whole series.

How does Sabine Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Sabine Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 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	4.0%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sabine Parish is 23.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sabine Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sabine Parish, LA is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,977 residents against a local median of 27,025. Where Sabine Parish, LA breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 29% above the local median of 18.5 min at 23.8 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 10.6 min on one-way commute, so Sabine Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sabine Parish, LA has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sabine Parish, LA	21,977	23.8 min #5/6	4.0% #4/6	7:04 AM #3/6
Sabine County, TX	10,023	23.1 min	7.0%	6:56 AM
Natchitoches Parish, LA	36,692	17.0 min	3.6%	7:25 AM
De Soto Parish, LA	27,025	27.6 min	4.3%	7:14 AM
Red River Parish, LA	7,443	18.5 min	3.2%	7:04 AM
Vernon Parish, LA	47,107	17.6 min	5.8%	6:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,150 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sabine 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).