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Commuting in Barranquitas 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 Barranquitas Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barranquitas Municipio spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Barranquitas Municipio holds about 0.9% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barranquitas Municipio would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,346 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)
Barranquitas Municipio 22.7 min 45.4 min 189 hrs/yr $5,865 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.

Commute Time Map: Puerto Rico Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Culebra Municipio (12.7 min)
  2. Jayuya Municipio (15.2 min)
  3. Vieques Municipio (16.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Naranjito Municipio (38.3 min)
  2. Toa Alta Municipio (33.8 min)
  3. Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Barranquitas Municipio
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Barranquitas Municipio. That's 1% 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 working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barranquitas Municipio

  • Car: 93.6%
  • Worked at Home: 3.2%
  • Walked: 3.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Barranquitas Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.

Public transit is essentially absent in Barranquitas Municipio, versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Barranquitas Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.

Biking is essentially absent in Barranquitas Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.

Commute Mode Trends in Barranquitas Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barranquitas 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 Walked Worked at Home Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Other
2009 93.8% 3.9% 1.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2010 93.7% 4.2% 1.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 93.9% 4.4% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 94.5% 4.0% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 94.9% 3.3% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 94.1% 3.9% 1.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.7% 3.7% 1.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.4% 2.7% 2.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 94.0% 2.9% 2.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.0% 3.6% 1.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 93.0% 5.3% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.6% 5.4% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 93.8% 4.9% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 95.6% 3.2% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.4% 4.3% 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.6% 3.2% 3.2% 0.0% 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 was highest in 2022 at 95.6% and lowest in 2023 at 92.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.8% in 2009 and 93.6% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Barranquitas Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 3.2% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Barranquitas Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barranquitas Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Barranquitas 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.

12:00-4:59 AM
10.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
13.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.3%

Barranquitas Municipio Puerto Rico Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Barranquitas Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 23.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 43.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Barranquitas 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 Barranquitas 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 Barranquitas 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 Barranquitas Municipio Puerto Rico United States
2009 6:59 AM 7:12 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:01 AM 7:12 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:05 AM 7:13 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:05 AM 7:14 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:09 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:10 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:10 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:06 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:06 AM 7:17 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:54 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:46 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:47 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:38 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:51 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:06 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:10 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barranquitas Municipio were on the road by 7:10 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (6:59 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Barranquitas Municipio now leave 28 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 Barranquitas Municipio has moved 24 minutes later.

How does Barranquitas Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric Barranquitas Municipio Puerto Rico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.7 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 3.2% 6.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.2% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Barranquitas Municipio is about the same as in Puerto Rico.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Barranquitas Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Barranquitas Municipio, PR is typical in size for this group, 29,054 residents against a local median of 29,307, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Barranquitas Municipio, PR sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% above the local median at 3.2% against 2.9%. Barranquitas Municipio, PR has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 29,054 22.7 min #4/6 3.2% #3/6 7:10 AM #6/6
Aibonito Municipio, PR 24,635 17.3 min 4.0% 7:02 AM
Comerío Municipio, PR 18,710 22.5 min 2.9% 6:44 AM
Naranjito Municipio, PR 29,307 38.3 min 2.6% 6:25 AM
Corozal Municipio, PR 34,444 31.8 min 0.9% 6:43 AM
Coamo Municipio, PR 33,998 22.7 min 4.4% 6:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,865 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Barranquitas Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Barranquitas 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico?

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), Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min).