Washington Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Washington Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Washington Parish spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Washington Parish holds about 1.0% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Washington Parish would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,360 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)
Washington Parish	22.8 min	45.7 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,901	543
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

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On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Washington Parish. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 other means. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Washington Parish

• Car: 85.8%
• Other: 8.7%
• Worked at Home: 4.2%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Washington Parish: 4.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Washington Parish: 4.2 times less than the Louisiana average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Washington Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Washington 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Other	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.7%	2.1%	2.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.0%	2.9%	2.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	3.2%	2.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	3.1%	3.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.8%	2.5%	2.8%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	1.9%	2.8%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	1.6%	2.7%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.9%	1.6%	2.9%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	1.9%	2.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	2.1%	2.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	93.2%	1.8%	2.8%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	92.4%	3.1%	2.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	91.6%	3.9%	2.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	89.5%	5.1%	2.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	86.4%	7.6%	3.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	85.8%	8.7%	4.2%	1.0%	0.2%	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 2015 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 6.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Washington Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 4.2% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Washington Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Washington Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Washington 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 Washington Parish11.5% Louisiana8.3%	11.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Washington Parish8.2% Louisiana4.7%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Washington Parish5.7% Louisiana5.4%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Washington Parish11.9% Louisiana10.1%	11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Washington Parish11.1% Louisiana10.8%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Washington Parish18.2% Louisiana16.1%	18.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Washington Parish7.7% Louisiana11.9%	7.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Washington Parish6.4% Louisiana9.6%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Washington Parish2.0% Louisiana3.9%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Washington Parish2.8% Louisiana5.0%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Washington Parish2.0% Louisiana2.3%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Washington Parish0.9% Louisiana1.0%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Washington Parish4.2% Louisiana5.4%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Washington Parish7.4% Louisiana5.3%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Washington Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 25.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 43.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Washington Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:23 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Washington Parish were on the road by 7:03 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Washington Parish now leave 35 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 Washington Parish has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Washington Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Washington Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.2%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Washington Parish is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau