Commuting in St. Martin 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 St. Martin Parish: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in St. Martin Parish spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.
St. Martin Parish holds about 1.1% 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. Martin Parish would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,426 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. Martin Parish
23.5 min
47.0 min
196 hrs/yr
$6,066
1,497
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.
On average, it takes
23.5
minutes to get to work in
St. Martin Parish.
That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in St. Martin Parish
Car:
89.5%
Worked at Home:
8.1%
Walked:
1.0%
Other:
0.7%
Public Transportation:
0.4%
Bicycle:
0.2%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in St. Martin Parish, versus 0.1% in Louisiana.
Commute Mode Trends in St. Martin Parish, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in St. Martin 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
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
95.7%
1.7%
1.2%
0.9%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2010
95.6%
1.6%
1.5%
1.0%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
96.7%
1.4%
1.0%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2012
95.9%
1.7%
1.8%
0.2%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2013
96.3%
1.4%
1.6%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2014
95.5%
1.5%
1.6%
0.9%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2015
95.6%
1.3%
1.4%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2016
95.0%
1.6%
1.4%
1.2%
0.4%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
95.5%
1.7%
1.2%
1.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2018
94.5%
2.3%
1.6%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
94.0%
3.3%
1.8%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
92.4%
5.3%
1.5%
0.5%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2021
92.2%
5.2%
1.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2022
91.7%
5.9%
1.5%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
91.3%
6.3%
1.2%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
89.5%
8.1%
1.0%
0.7%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
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 96.7%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in St. Martin Parish: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in St. Martin Parish
What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Martin Parish?
The bars show when commuters in St. Martin 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 AMSt. Martin Parish8.7%Louisiana8.3%
8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMSt. Martin Parish3.7%Louisiana4.7%
3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMSt. Martin Parish7.8%Louisiana5.4%
7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMSt. Martin Parish11.2%Louisiana10.1%
11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMSt. Martin Parish12.2%Louisiana10.8%
12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMSt. Martin Parish22.3%Louisiana16.1%
22.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMSt. Martin Parish12.3%Louisiana11.9%
12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMSt. Martin Parish5.7%Louisiana9.6%
5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMSt. Martin Parish2.5%Louisiana3.9%
2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMSt. Martin Parish3.4%Louisiana5.0%
3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMSt. Martin Parish1.6%Louisiana2.3%
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMSt. Martin Parish0.5%Louisiana1.0%
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMSt. Martin Parish2.5%Louisiana5.4%
2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMSt. Martin Parish5.6%Louisiana5.3%
5.6%
St. Martin ParishLouisianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in St. Martin Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.5%) 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. Martin 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. Martin 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. Martin 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
St. Martin Parish
Louisiana
United States
2009
7:05 AM
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:05 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:05 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:03 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:02 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:06 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:06 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:08 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:09 AM
7:22 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:12 AM
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:10 AM
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:10 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:11 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in St. Martin Parish were on the road by 7:09 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:05 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in St. Martin Parish now leave 29 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. Martin Parish has moved 2 minutes earlier.
How does St. Martin Parish's commute time compare?
Metric
St. Martin Parish
Louisiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.5 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
8.1%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.0%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.4%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in St. Martin Parish is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.
0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.
St. Martin Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
St. Martin Parish, LA is typical in size for this group, 51,353 residents against a local median of 47,828, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets St. Martin Parish, LA apart most is work from home: 8.1%, 47% above the local median of 5.5%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.5 min against a local median of 18.7 min, 26% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 26% above the local median it puts St. Martin Parish, LA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.0% on work from home, so St. Martin Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. St. Martin Parish, LA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.
What is the financial impact of commuting in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana?
Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,066 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 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).