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Union Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Union 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 Union Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Union Parish spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 231 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Union Parish holds about 0.5% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Union Parish would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,863 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)
Union Parish 27.7 min 55.4 min 231 hrs/yr $7,157 327
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.

Commute Time Map: Louisiana Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
  2. Madison Parish (13.1 min)
  3. St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana
  1. West Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  2. East Feliciana Parish (32.8 min)
  3. St. Helena Parish (32.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Union Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.7 minutes to get to work in Union Parish. That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% 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 3.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Union Parish

  • Car: 93.7%
  • Worked at Home: 3.8%
  • Walked: 1.9%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Union Parish: 33.9 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Union Parish, versus 0.2% in Louisiana.

Biking is essentially absent in Union Parish, versus 0.3% in Louisiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Union Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Union 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 Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 93.7% 2.9% 2.0% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 93.6% 3.1% 1.5% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 93.7% 3.1% 1.1% 1.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 94.5% 2.6% 1.0% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 94.2% 3.0% 0.6% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 94.0% 2.9% 1.1% 1.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 94.8% 2.7% 1.1% 0.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.7% 2.6% 1.3% 0.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 94.0% 2.5% 1.0% 0.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 1.4%
2018 94.4% 1.8% 0.8% 0.3% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 2.1%
2019 93.6% 3.0% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 1.7%
2020 93.8% 3.1% 0.7% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1%
2021 93.5% 2.9% 1.1% 0.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 1.7%
2022 95.0% 2.9% 1.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.9% 3.6% 1.8% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.7% 3.8% 1.9% 0.5% 0.0% 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 was highest in 2022 at 95.0% and lowest in 2021 at 93.5%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.7% in 2009 and 93.7% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Union Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 3.8% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking peaked at 2.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Union Parish

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Louisiana's 64 counties: 59.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Union Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Union 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
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
25.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Union Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 59.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.7%) 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 Union 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 Union 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 Union 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 Union Parish Louisiana United States
2009 7:05 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:08 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:09 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:10 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:09 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:12 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:13 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 7:09 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:14 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:13 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:19 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Union Parish were on the road by 7:19 AM, 14 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 Union Parish now leave 19 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 Union Parish has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Union Parish in the whole series.

How does Union Parish's commute time compare?

Metric Union Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.7 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 3.8% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.9% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Union Parish is 27.7 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Union Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Union Parish, LA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,797 residents against a local median of 37,897. Union Parish, LA's one-way commute, at 27.7 min, runs 54% above the 18.0 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 3.8% against a local median of 6.9%, 44% below it. The counties themselves sit within 4.4 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Union Parish, LA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Union Parish, LA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Union Parish, LA 20,797 27.7 min #6/6 3.8% #6/6 7:19 AM #4/6
Lincoln Parish, LA 48,172 15.7 min 11.5% 7:33 AM
Union County, AR 37,897 16.9 min 6.9% 7:12 AM
Ouachita Parish, LA 158,478 18.0 min 8.3% 7:26 AM
Jackson Parish, LA 14,881 18.4 min 5.4% 7:09 AM
Morehouse Parish, LA 24,551 20.1 min 4.1% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Union Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Union Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 231 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,157 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Union Parish, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Union 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.

Do people use public transit in Union Parish, Louisiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Louisiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).