Slidell Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Slidell, 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 Slidell: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Slidell spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Slidell 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 Slidell would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,322 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)
Slidell	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,805	2,450
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.

Slidell Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Slidell. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Slidell

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

Walking is unusually rare in Slidell: 4.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.4% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Slidell: 8.0 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Slidell, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Slidell 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	1.9%	0.3%	1.9%	0.1%	1.9%	1.2%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	2.2%	0.3%	1.2%	0.1%	1.7%	1.0%	0.4%
2011	94.1%	2.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%
2012	94.3%	2.2%	0.3%	1.2%	0.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	93.7%	2.6%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.6%	2.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.0%	2.9%	1.3%	1.7%	0.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.3%	3.6%	1.3%	1.8%	0.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.0%	4.0%	1.2%	1.3%	0.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	4.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	4.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%
2020	88.2%	8.4%	0.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	88.0%	9.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	86.5%	10.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	84.9%	12.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	86.0%	11.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	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 2012 at 94.3% and lowest in 2023 at 84.9%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Slidell: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 11.7% in 2024, up 9.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Biking overtook taking a taxi to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 12.9% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 11.7%.

Commute Start Times in Slidell

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Slidell?

The bars show when commuters in Slidell 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		15.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Slidell is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.8% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.7%) 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 Slidell, 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 Slidell 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 Slidell 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	Slidell	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Slidell were on the road by 7:21 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Slidell now leave 16 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 Slidell has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Slidell's commute time compare?

Metric	Slidell	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.7%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Slidell is 22.5 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Slidell, Louisiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,805 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Slidell, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Slidell, Louisiana?

About 11.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Slidell would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,322 at the same national wage assumption used above.