Commuting in West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in West Carroll 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 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.
West Carroll Parish holds about 0.2% of Louisiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in West Carroll Parish would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,108 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)
West Carroll Parish
20.4 min
40.8 min
170 hrs/yr
$5,271
284
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.
On average, it takes
20.4
minutes to get to work in
West Carroll Parish.
That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
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 5.8% work from home.
How People Get to Work in West Carroll Parish
Car:
92.0%
Worked at Home:
5.8%
Walked:
1.1%
Other:
0.8%
Motorcycle:
0.3%unusually high
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in West Carroll Parish: 4.3 times more than the Louisiana average (0.3% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is essentially absent in West Carroll Parish, versus 0.9% in Louisiana.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in West Carroll Parish, versus 0.2% in Louisiana.
Biking is essentially absent in West Carroll Parish, versus 0.3% in Louisiana.
Commute Mode Trends in West Carroll Parish, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in West Carroll 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
Motorcycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Bicycle
2009
95.5%
3.1%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
94.8%
3.1%
0.6%
0.5%
0.3%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
92.9%
3.6%
0.9%
0.7%
0.2%
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
94.6%
2.5%
0.7%
1.8%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
95.6%
1.6%
0.7%
1.8%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
95.7%
1.4%
0.7%
1.8%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
96.2%
1.3%
0.6%
1.4%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
96.1%
1.1%
0.6%
1.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2017
96.5%
1.4%
0.7%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
95.0%
1.9%
1.2%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2019
95.3%
2.0%
1.1%
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
96.5%
1.9%
0.6%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
96.2%
1.0%
2.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
97.7%
1.2%
1.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
94.2%
4.7%
0.5%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
92.0%
5.8%
1.1%
0.8%
0.3%
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 peaked in 2022 at 97.7%. Overall it fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 92.0% in 2024, down 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in West Carroll Parish: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).
Walking peaked at 2.2% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.
Commute Start Times in West Carroll Parish
What Time Do People Leave for Work in West Carroll Parish?
The bars show when commuters in West Carroll 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.
West Carroll ParishLouisianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in West Carroll Parish is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.1% across Louisiana. Early starts are about as common as in Louisiana: 19.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Louisiana: 52.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.5%) 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 West Carroll 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 West Carroll 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 West Carroll 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
West Carroll Parish
Louisiana
United States
2009
7:20 AM
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:21 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:22 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:21 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:24 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:27 AM
7:23 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:42 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:33 AM
7:23 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:31 AM
7:22 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:26 AM
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:26 AM
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:26 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:22 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:21 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:22 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:17 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in West Carroll Parish were on the road by 7:17 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Louisiana followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in West Carroll Parish now leave 21 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 West Carroll Parish has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for West Carroll Parish in the whole series.
How does West Carroll Parish's commute time compare?
Metric
West Carroll Parish
Louisiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.4 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
5.8%
8.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.1%
1.8%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in West Carroll Parish is 20.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Louisiana. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Louisiana.
West Carroll Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
West Carroll Parish, LA is typical in size for this group, 9,464 residents against a local median of 9,514, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where West Carroll Parish, LA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 41% above the local median of 4.1% at 5.8%.
The counties themselves spread 5.1% on work from home, so West Carroll Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. West Carroll Parish, LA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
Is living in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,271 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in West Carroll 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.
How common is public transit use in West Carroll 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.
How do commute times compare across counties in Louisiana?
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).