St. John the Baptist Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in St. John the Baptist Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in St. John the Baptist Parish spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 44% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 9.4 minutes.

St. John the Baptist Parish holds about 0.9% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. John the Baptist Parish would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,169 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)
St. John the Baptist Parish	30.7 min	61.3 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,921	1,370
Louisiana	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,502	1,164
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

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On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in St. John the Baptist Parish. That's 36% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 5.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 92.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in St. John the Baptist Parish: 6.4 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in St. John the Baptist Parish: 4.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Walked commuting is unusually low in St. John the Baptist Parish: 5.2 times less than the Louisiana average (0.4% vs 1.9%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in St. John the Baptist Parish, versus 0.2% in Louisiana.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in St. John the Baptist Parish: 4.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in St. John the Baptist Parish: just 0.4%, 5.2 times below the Louisiana average of 2.3%.

How does St. John the Baptist Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	St. John the Baptist Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 min	21.3 min	22.5 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	5.6%	7.2%	13.4%
Walked	0.4%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in St. John the Baptist Parish is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau