Webster Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Webster Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Webster Parish spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Webster Parish holds about 0.8% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Webster Parish would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,093 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)
Webster Parish	20.3 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,232	516
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 20.3 minutes to get to work in Webster Parish. That's 10% shorter 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 working from home. About 6.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Webster Parish

• Car: 89.5%
• Worked at Home: 6.2%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Webster Parish: 5.5 times more than the Louisiana average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Webster Parish: 27.8 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Webster Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Webster 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	92.5%	2.3%	1.3%	3.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	91.5%	2.1%	1.5%	4.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	90.9%	2.2%	2.0%	4.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	1.6%	1.2%	3.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.7%	1.5%	1.7%	3.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	1.3%	1.9%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.9%	1.2%	2.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.3%	1.5%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	95.1%	2.2%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	94.0%	3.2%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	93.5%	4.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.3%	5.0%	0.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.1%	6.3%	0.4%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	7.1%	1.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	6.9%	1.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	6.2%	2.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 95.3%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Webster Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 6.2% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Webster Parish

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Webster Parish?

The bars show when commuters in Webster 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 Webster Parish7.6% Louisiana8.3%	7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Webster Parish5.0% Louisiana4.7%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Webster Parish4.5% Louisiana5.4%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Webster Parish10.4% Louisiana10.1%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Webster Parish7.4% Louisiana10.8%	7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Webster Parish19.5% Louisiana16.1%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Webster Parish8.7% Louisiana11.9%	8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Webster Parish9.0% Louisiana9.6%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Webster Parish2.8% Louisiana3.9%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Webster Parish6.8% Louisiana5.0%	6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Webster Parish3.0% Louisiana2.3%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Webster Parish1.6% Louisiana1.0%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Webster Parish7.2% Louisiana5.4%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Webster Parish6.6% Louisiana5.3%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Webster Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are less common than in Louisiana: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 44.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.2%) 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 Webster 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 Webster 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 Webster 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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• Louisiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Webster Parish	Louisiana	United States
2009	7:13 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	7:12 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	7:15 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:23 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:22 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:22 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Webster Parish were on the road by 7:23 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Louisiana, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Webster Parish now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Webster Parish's commute time compare?

Metric	Webster Parish	Louisiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	6.2%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Webster Parish is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Louisiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau