Vermilion Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Vermilion 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 Vermilion Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vermilion Parish spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Vermilion Parish holds about 1.2% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Vermilion Parish would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,474 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)
Vermilion Parish	23.9 min	47.9 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,184	1,536
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

East Carroll Parish (11.4 min)
Madison Parish (13.1 min)
St. Mary Parish (15.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Louisiana

Compare commute times among different counties

Vermilion Parish

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Vermilion Parish. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% 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 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Vermilion Parish

Commute Mode Trends in Vermilion Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Vermilion 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.0%	2.7%	1.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.9%	2.7%	1.4%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	94.0%	2.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	2.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.4%	2.3%	1.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	95.1%	2.0%	1.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.7%	2.5%	1.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	2.6%	2.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	92.3%	2.8%	3.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	2.9%	3.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.4%	3.4%	4.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	89.0%	4.1%	5.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.5%	4.5%	4.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	90.1%	4.9%	3.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	90.0%	4.8%	3.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	89.7%	5.3%	3.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 95.1% and lowest in 2020 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Vermilion Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.4% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 3.0%.

Commute Start Times in Vermilion Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vermilion Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Vermilion 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		5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Vermilion Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 45.8% 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 Vermilion 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 Vermilion 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 Vermilion 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	Vermilion Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Vermilion Parish were on the road by 7:12 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Louisiana, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Vermilion Parish now leave 26 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 Vermilion Parish has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Vermilion Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Vermilion Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.9 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	5.3%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Vermilion Parish is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Vermilion Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Vermilion Parish, LA is typical in size for this group, 57,123 residents against a local median of 56,955, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Vermilion Parish, LA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 16% below the local median of 6.3% at 5.3%.

The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Vermilion Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Vermilion Parish, LA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Vermilion Parish, LA	57,123	23.9 min #6/6	5.3% #5/6	7:12 AM #4/6
Lafayette Parish, LA	247,982	18.7 min	10.4%	7:28 AM
Acadia Parish, LA	56,955	22.5 min	5.8%	7:04 AM
Iberia Parish, LA	68,630	20.6 min	6.3%	7:12 AM
Jefferson Davis Parish, LA	31,924	23.5 min	4.2%	7:06 AM
St. Martin Parish, LA	51,353	23.5 min	8.1%	7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.

Is commuting expensive in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,184 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 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).