Commuting in St. Tammany 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. Tammany Parish: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in St. Tammany Parish spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 224 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.
St. Tammany Parish holds about 5.9% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 7.5% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Tammany Parish would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,774 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. Tammany Parish
26.8 min
53.7 min
224 hrs/yr
$6,936
1,606
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
26.8
minutes to get to work in
St. Tammany Parish.
That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 81% of counties in Louisiana
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in St. Tammany Parish
Car:
84.3%
Worked at Home:
13.2%
Other:
1.5%
Walked:
0.8%
Bicycle:
0.1%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in St. Tammany Parish: 1012670.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in St. Tammany Parish: 13.5 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is unusually rare in St. Tammany Parish: 4.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in St. Tammany Parish, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in St. Tammany 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
93.1%
3.6%
1.3%
1.0%
0.2%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2010
93.1%
3.5%
1.5%
1.0%
0.1%
0.5%
0.2%
0.2%
2011
93.1%
3.6%
1.4%
1.2%
0.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2012
93.3%
3.4%
1.4%
1.2%
0.2%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
2013
93.6%
3.2%
1.3%
1.2%
0.2%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
2014
93.2%
3.0%
1.6%
1.3%
0.2%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2015
93.1%
3.3%
1.6%
1.2%
0.2%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2016
92.8%
3.7%
1.6%
0.9%
0.2%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2017
92.6%
4.3%
1.5%
0.9%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
91.9%
5.1%
1.4%
0.8%
0.2%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
2019
91.4%
6.0%
1.3%
0.6%
0.2%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
2020
89.8%
7.9%
1.1%
0.5%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
88.2%
9.7%
1.1%
0.5%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
2022
86.5%
11.1%
1.1%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
85.1%
12.4%
1.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
84.3%
13.2%
1.5%
0.8%
0.1%
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 2013 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 11 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in St. Tammany Parish: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 13.2% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in St. Tammany Parish
What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Tammany Parish?
The bars show when commuters in St. Tammany 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. Tammany Parish6.4%Louisiana8.3%
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMSt. Tammany Parish4.0%Louisiana4.7%
4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish5.9%Louisiana5.4%
5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMSt. Tammany Parish10.6%Louisiana10.1%
10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish10.9%Louisiana10.8%
10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMSt. Tammany Parish14.9%Louisiana16.1%
14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish11.3%Louisiana11.9%
11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMSt. Tammany Parish12.0%Louisiana9.6%
12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish4.7%Louisiana3.9%
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish5.7%Louisiana5.0%
5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish2.7%Louisiana2.3%
2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMSt. Tammany Parish1.4%Louisiana1.0%
1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMSt. Tammany Parish5.5%Louisiana5.4%
5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMSt. Tammany Parish4.0%Louisiana5.3%
4.0%
St. Tammany ParishLouisianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in St. Tammany Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 49.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 St. Tammany 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. Tammany 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. Tammany 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. Tammany Parish
Louisiana
United States
2009
7:25 AM
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:25 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:25 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:25 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:26 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:25 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:26 AM
7:22 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:26 AM
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:24 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:25 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:24 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:24 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:24 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in St. Tammany Parish were on the road by 7:24 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Louisiana, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in St. Tammany Parish now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).
How does St. Tammany Parish's commute time compare?
Metric
St. Tammany Parish
Louisiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
26.8 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
13.2%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
0.8%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in St. Tammany Parish is 26.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.
St. Tammany Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
St. Tammany Parish, LA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 272,409 residents against a local median of 57,458. The measure that sets St. Tammany Parish, LA apart most is work from home: 13.2%, 50% above the local median of 8.8%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 26.8 min against a local median of 22.9 min, 17% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% above the local median it puts St. Tammany Parish, LA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 10.6% on work from home, so St. Tammany Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. St. Tammany Parish, LA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
Is living in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 224 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,936 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in St. Tammany Parish, 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 common is public transit use in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Louisiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
How much time do residents in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana save by working from home?
About 13.2% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Tammany Parish would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,774 at the same national wage assumption used above.
How do commute times compare across 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).