Commuting in Carolina 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 Carolina Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Carolina Municipio spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 231 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.
Carolina Municipio holds about 4.7% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 5.6% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Carolina Municipio would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,870 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)
Carolina Municipio
27.8 min
55.6 min
231 hrs/yr
$7,175
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
27.8
minutes to get to work in
Carolina Municipio.
That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 77% of counties in Puerto Rico
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 11.4% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Carolina Municipio
Car:
85.7%
Worked at Home:
11.4%
Walked:
1.1%
Public Transportation:
0.9%
Other:
0.6%
Taxi:
0.3%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Commute Mode Trends in Carolina Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Carolina 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
Public Transportation
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
88.7%
2.4%
2.4%
4.8%
1.3%
0.0%
0.3%
0.1%
2010
89.7%
2.6%
2.1%
4.2%
0.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
2011
90.0%
2.7%
2.2%
4.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
2012
90.7%
2.4%
1.9%
4.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2013
90.6%
2.4%
2.1%
4.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
2014
91.2%
2.3%
1.9%
3.8%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2015
91.4%
1.8%
2.2%
3.7%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2016
91.9%
2.1%
2.0%
3.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2017
92.1%
2.5%
1.8%
2.5%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2018
92.8%
2.4%
1.6%
2.3%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
92.9%
2.3%
1.7%
1.9%
0.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2020
92.2%
3.7%
1.4%
1.6%
0.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
90.7%
5.6%
1.3%
1.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2022
89.4%
7.1%
1.4%
1.2%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2023
88.3%
8.6%
1.3%
0.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
85.7%
11.4%
1.1%
0.9%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 88.7% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Carolina Municipio: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 0.9% of workers (down 3.9 percentage points).
Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Carolina Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carolina Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Carolina 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.
Carolina MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Carolina Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 15.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 42.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Carolina 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 Carolina 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 Carolina 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
Carolina Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:07 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:07 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:10 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:13 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:16 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:16 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:18 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:18 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:17 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:15 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:17 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:16 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:16 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:14 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:17 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:18 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Carolina Municipio were on the road by 7:18 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:07 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Carolina Municipio now leave 20 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 Carolina Municipio has moved 2 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Carolina Municipio in the whole series.
How does Carolina Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Carolina Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
27.8 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
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
11.4%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.1%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.9%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Carolina Municipio is 27.8 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Puerto Rico. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Carolina Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Carolina Municipio, PR is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 152,197 residents against a local median of 41,816. Where Carolina Municipio, PR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 39% above the local median of 8.2% at 11.4%.
The counties themselves spread 3.9% on work from home, so Carolina Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Carolina Municipio, PR has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Carolina Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is living in Carolina Municipio, Puerto Rico good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 231 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,175 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Carolina Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Carolina 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.
How much time do residents in Carolina Municipio, Puerto Rico save by working from home?
About 11.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Carolina Municipio would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,870 at the same national wage assumption used above.
How do commute times compare across 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), RÃo Grande Municipio (33.4 min).