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 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

St. John the Baptist Parish holds about 0.9% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. John the Baptist Parish would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,110 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	30.1 min	60.2 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,776	1,370
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 30.1 minutes to get to work in St. John the Baptist Parish. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% 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 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in St. John the Baptist Parish

• Car: 90.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Other: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in St. John the Baptist Parish: 5.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in St. John the Baptist Parish: 4.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.4% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in St. John the Baptist Parish, versus 0.2% in Louisiana.

Few people walk or bike to work in St. John the Baptist Parish: just 0.5%, 4.3 times below the Louisiana average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in St. John the Baptist Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in St. John the Baptist 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	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.8%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	1.2%	1.7%	0.5%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	1.1%	1.7%	0.4%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.1%	0.8%	2.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.7%	0.9%	3.0%	0.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.4%	1.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.3%	1.1%	1.5%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	95.9%	1.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	1.6%	1.6%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	3.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.0%	4.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.9%	5.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	5.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.8%	6.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2018 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in St. John the Baptist Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in St. John the Baptist Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. John the Baptist Parish?

The bars show when commuters in St. John the Baptist 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 St. John the Baptist Parish11.6% Louisiana8.3%	11.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM St. John the Baptist Parish7.1% Louisiana4.7%	7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish9.2% Louisiana5.4%	9.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM St. John the Baptist Parish11.9% Louisiana10.1%	11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish9.0% Louisiana10.8%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM St. John the Baptist Parish12.5% Louisiana16.1%	12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish9.5% Louisiana11.9%	9.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM St. John the Baptist Parish8.1% Louisiana9.6%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish2.6% Louisiana3.9%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish4.6% Louisiana5.0%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish2.8% Louisiana2.3%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM St. John the Baptist Parish0.5% Louisiana1.0%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM St. John the Baptist Parish5.4% Louisiana5.4%	5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM St. John the Baptist Parish5.3% Louisiana5.3%	5.3%

St. John the Baptist Parish Louisiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in St. John the Baptist Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 27.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 39.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 St. John the Baptist 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 St. John the Baptist 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 St. John the Baptist 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	St. John the Baptist Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:05 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:03 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:01 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:00 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:59 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in St. John the Baptist Parish were on the road by 7:03 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in St. John the Baptist Parish now leave 35 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 St. John the Baptist Parish has moved 4 minutes later.

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

Metric	St. John the Baptist Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 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	6.4%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in St. John the Baptist Parish is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.6% 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