Canóvanas Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Canóvanas Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Canóvanas Municipio spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 272 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Canóvanas Municipio holds about 1.3% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Canóvanas Municipio would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,371 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)
Canóvanas Municipio	32.6 min	65.2 min	272 hrs/yr	$8,427	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

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On average, it takes 32.6 minutes to get to work in Canóvanas Municipio. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Canóvanas Municipio

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.9%
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Canóvanas Municipio: 3.4 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.7% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Canóvanas Municipio: 13.6 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Canóvanas Municipio: just 0.7%, 3.5 times below the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Canóvanas Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Canóvanas 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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• Taxi
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.2%	1.0%	2.4%	1.4%	0.0%	3.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	1.0%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	2.9%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	92.9%	1.3%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	92.3%	1.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	2.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	92.8%	1.7%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	92.5%	1.6%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2015	93.1%	1.5%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	93.6%	1.1%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	0.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	0.7%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	1.1%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%
2020	92.9%	3.0%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	5.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	5.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	6.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.8%	6.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2019 at 94.4%. Overall it rose from 91.2% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Canóvanas Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 0.1% of workers (down 3.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 1.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Canóvanas Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Canóvanas Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Canóvanas 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	12:00-4:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio9.2% Puerto Rico6.3%	9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Canóvanas Municipio4.9% Puerto Rico5.1%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio8.7% Puerto Rico5.5%	8.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Canóvanas Municipio17.2% Puerto Rico11.9%	17.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio9.7% Puerto Rico10.3%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Canóvanas Municipio12.4% Puerto Rico18.0%	12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio8.3% Puerto Rico10.0%	8.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Canóvanas Municipio7.5% Puerto Rico10.4%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio2.2% Puerto Rico3.2%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio2.3% Puerto Rico5.4%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio4.0% Puerto Rico2.4%	4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Canóvanas Municipio1.5% Puerto Rico1.4%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Canóvanas Municipio7.0% Puerto Rico6.0%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Canóvanas Municipio4.9% Puerto Rico4.0%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Canóvanas Municipio is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 22.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 37.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Canóvanas 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 Canóvanas 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 Canóvanas 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.

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• Puerto Rico
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Canóvanas Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	6:56 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:55 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:56 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:56 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:57 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:54 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:00 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:01 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:01 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Canóvanas Municipio were on the road by 7:01 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (6:56 AM). Puerto Rico followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Canóvanas Municipio now leave 37 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Canóvanas Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Canóvanas Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.6 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Canóvanas Municipio is 32.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau