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West Feliciana Parish Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in West Feliciana Parish: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in West Feliciana Parish spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 273 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 54% more time on the road than the Louisiana average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 11.5 minutes.

West Feliciana Parish holds about 0.3% of Louisiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in West Feliciana Parish would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,390 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 Feliciana Parish 32.8 min 65.6 min 273 hrs/yr $8,474 624
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)

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West Feliciana Parish
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 32.8 minutes to get to work in West Feliciana Parish. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Louisiana

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in West Feliciana Parish

  • Car: 91.9%
  • Worked at Home: 7.5%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is essentially absent in West Feliciana Parish, versus 1.8% in Louisiana.

Public transit is unusually rare in West Feliciana Parish: 139366.6 times less than the Louisiana average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in West Feliciana Parish, versus 2.2% in Louisiana.

Commute Mode Trends in West Feliciana Parish, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in West Feliciana 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 Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle Walked
2009 95.1% 2.4% 0.0% 0.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 1.3%
2010 95.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
2011 94.6% 2.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5%
2012 94.6% 3.7% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.4%
2013 94.4% 4.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2014 95.6% 3.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2015 97.0% 2.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 97.7% 1.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2017 97.7% 1.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2018 98.1% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0%
2019 97.1% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
2020 94.3% 3.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
2021 94.7% 3.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.2%
2022 94.6% 4.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2023 92.3% 7.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2024 91.9% 7.5% 0.3% 0.2% 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 peaked in 2018 at 98.1%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in West Feliciana Parish: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in West Feliciana Parish

  • Early BirdThe earliest start among Louisiana's 64 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:26 AM.
  • Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Louisiana's 64 counties: 43.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Louisiana's 64 counties: the typical start is 30 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in West Feliciana Parish?

The bars show when commuters in West Feliciana 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
21.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
9.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
12.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
6.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in West Feliciana Parish is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 21.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Louisiana. Early starts are more common than in Louisiana: 43.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 18.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Louisiana: 41.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.5% there. About 1 in 15 commuters (6.8%) 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 Feliciana 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 Feliciana 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 Feliciana 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 Feliciana Parish Louisiana United States
2009 6:56 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:17 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:12 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:11 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:06 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:05 AM 7:23 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:56 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:03 AM 7:23 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:57 AM 7:22 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:52 AM 7:22 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:04 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:55 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:57 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:01 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:26 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in West Feliciana Parish were on the road by 6:26 AM, 30 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:56 AM). The shift is sharper than across Louisiana, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in West Feliciana Parish now leave 72 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 Feliciana Parish has moved 38 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for West Feliciana Parish in the whole series.

How does West Feliciana Parish's commute time compare?

Metric West Feliciana Parish Louisiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 32.8 min 21.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 7.5% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked < 0.1% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in West Feliciana Parish is 32.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Louisiana.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

West Feliciana Parish, LA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

West Feliciana Parish, LA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,327 residents against a local median of 20,218. Where West Feliciana Parish, LA breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 30% above the local median of 25.2 min at 32.8 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 7.5% against a local median of 5.9%, 28% above it. The counties themselves spread 15.6 min on one-way commute, so West Feliciana Parish, LA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. West Feliciana Parish, LA has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
West Feliciana Parish, LA 15,327 32.8 min #5/6 7.5% #2/6 6:26 AM #1/6
Pointe Coupee Parish, LA 20,218 25.2 min 3.3% 7:01 AM
Wilkinson County, MS 8,162 36.8 min 5.9% 6:38 AM
East Feliciana Parish, LA 19,263 32.8 min 7.3% 6:47 AM
West Baton Rouge Parish, LA 27,974 21.7 min 4.4% 6:48 AM
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 452,856 21.3 min 8.6% 7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

How much does the average commute cost workers in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 273 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,474 at a typical national wage. That's 54% more than the typical Louisiana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in West Feliciana 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).