Terrebonne Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Terrebonne Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Terrebonne Parish spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Terrebonne Parish holds about 2.3% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Terrebonne Parish would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,896 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)
Terrebonne Parish	18.4 min	36.7 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,741	2,152
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 18.4 minutes to get to work in Terrebonne Parish. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% of counties in Louisiana

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 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Terrebonne Parish

• Car: 93.7%
• Worked at Home: 3.3%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Terrebonne Parish: 4.2 times less than the Louisiana average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Terrebonne Parish: 8.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Terrebonne Parish: 24.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Terrebonne Parish: just 0.7%, 3.0 times below the Louisiana average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Terrebonne Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Terrebonne 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.7%	2.3%	3.4%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	91.7%	1.9%	3.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	92.2%	1.6%	3.1%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	92.1%	1.8%	3.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%
2013	92.2%	1.8%	3.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%
2014	92.6%	1.8%	3.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	92.8%	2.4%	2.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	92.1%	3.7%	2.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2017	91.6%	3.4%	2.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2018	91.0%	3.6%	3.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2019	90.4%	3.7%	3.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2020	90.2%	3.6%	3.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2021	92.6%	2.6%	2.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.4%	3.2%	2.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.2%	3.6%	2.5%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.7%	3.3%	2.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2020 at 90.2%. Overall it rose from 91.7% in 2009 to 93.7% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Terrebonne Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 3.3% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.1% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Terrebonne Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Terrebonne Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Terrebonne 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 Terrebonne Parish7.8% Louisiana8.3%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Terrebonne Parish5.6% Louisiana4.7%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Terrebonne Parish6.6% Louisiana5.4%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Terrebonne Parish11.1% Louisiana10.1%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Terrebonne Parish11.5% Louisiana10.8%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Terrebonne Parish15.2% Louisiana16.1%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Terrebonne Parish14.0% Louisiana11.9%	14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Terrebonne Parish9.3% Louisiana9.6%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Terrebonne Parish2.7% Louisiana3.9%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Terrebonne Parish3.7% Louisiana5.0%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Terrebonne Parish2.1% Louisiana2.3%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Terrebonne Parish0.6% Louisiana1.0%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Terrebonne Parish5.1% Louisiana5.4%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Terrebonne Parish4.7% Louisiana5.3%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Terrebonne Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Louisiana's: 50.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.1%) 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 Terrebonne 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 Terrebonne 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 Terrebonne 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	Terrebonne Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Terrebonne Parish were on the road by 7:14 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Terrebonne Parish now leave 23 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Terrebonne Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Terrebonne Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	3.3%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Terrebonne Parish is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau