Commuting in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico: 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 Barceloneta Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Barceloneta Municipio spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.
Barceloneta Municipio holds about 0.7% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Barceloneta Municipio would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,144 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)
Barceloneta Municipio
20.8 min
41.5 min
173 hrs/yr
$5,361
N/A
Puerto Rico
23.5 min
46.9 min
196 hrs/yr
$6,063
N/A
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
20.8
minutes to get to work in
Barceloneta Municipio.
That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 75% of counties in Puerto Rico
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Barceloneta Municipio
Car:
94.3%
Worked at Home:
4.1%
Walked:
0.9%
Other:
0.7%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Barceloneta Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Public transit is unusually rare in Barceloneta Municipio: 1285.3 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Barceloneta Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Biking is unusually rare in Barceloneta Municipio: 12755.7 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Commute Mode Trends in Barceloneta Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Barceloneta Municipio 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
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
88.8%
1.8%
4.3%
2.7%
1.7%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
2010
90.0%
1.3%
4.2%
3.0%
0.9%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
2011
92.2%
0.6%
3.3%
2.9%
0.3%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
2012
91.7%
0.1%
3.1%
3.5%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
1.0%
2013
92.0%
0.0%
3.4%
3.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.4%
0.9%
2014
90.8%
0.0%
3.2%
4.5%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2015
91.2%
0.0%
3.3%
3.6%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2016
92.1%
0.9%
2.0%
3.1%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2017
94.2%
1.1%
1.8%
2.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
94.3%
1.1%
2.3%
1.7%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
94.9%
2.4%
2.5%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
94.9%
2.8%
2.0%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
96.2%
1.6%
2.0%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
94.3%
2.9%
2.6%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
93.5%
4.7%
1.5%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
94.3%
4.1%
0.9%
0.7%
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 2021 at 96.2%. Overall it rose from 88.8% in 2009 to 94.3% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Working from home gained the most ground in Barceloneta Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 0.9% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.
Biking peaked at 1.0% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.
Commute Start Times in Barceloneta Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barceloneta Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Barceloneta Municipio 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 Puerto Rico for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.
Barceloneta MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Barceloneta Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 22.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Puerto Rico's: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Barceloneta Municipio, 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 Barceloneta Municipio 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 Barceloneta Municipio next to Puerto Rico 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
Barceloneta Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:14 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:20 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:25 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:19 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:28 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:24 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:19 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:13 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:14 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:12 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:19 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:18 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:16 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:18 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:13 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:05 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Barceloneta Municipio were on the road by 7:05 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Barceloneta Municipio now leave 33 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 Barceloneta Municipio has moved 14 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Barceloneta Municipio in the whole series.
How does Barceloneta Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Barceloneta Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.8 min
23.5 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
4.1%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
0.9%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Barceloneta Municipio is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Barceloneta Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Barceloneta Municipio, PR is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,487 residents against a local median of 38,943. The measure that sets Barceloneta Municipio, PR apart most is work from home: 4.1%, 43% above the local median of 2.9%.
The counties themselves spread 2.7% on work from home, so Barceloneta Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Barceloneta Municipio, PR has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is commuting expensive in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,361 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Barceloneta Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Puerto Rico have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Puerto Rico, the shortest average commutes are in Culebra Municipio (12.7 min), Jayuya Municipio (15.2 min), Vieques Municipio (16.0 min). The longest are in Naranjito Municipio (38.3 min), Toa Alta Municipio (33.8 min), RÃo Grande Municipio (33.4 min).