Cataño Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cataño Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cataño Municipio spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Cataño Municipio holds about 0.6% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cataño Municipio would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,407 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)
Cataño Municipio	23.3 min	46.6 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,018	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.

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On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Cataño Municipio. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cataño Municipio

• Car: 90.2%
• Worked at Home: 6.1%
• Other: 2.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Cataño Municipio: 5.4 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Cataño Municipio: just 0.4%, 5.7 times below the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cataño Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cataño 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.7%	2.2%	4.1%	7.9%	4.4%	0.0%	0.3%	1.4%
2010	80.7%	2.2%	3.9%	8.2%	3.1%	0.0%	0.3%	1.6%
2011	80.3%	2.0%	3.1%	8.4%	4.3%	0.0%	0.5%	1.5%
2012	80.6%	1.7%	2.2%	7.7%	5.8%	0.0%	0.4%	1.4%
2013	82.6%	1.8%	2.2%	7.7%	4.3%	0.0%	0.3%	1.1%
2014	82.1%	1.6%	2.3%	9.1%	4.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2015	82.2%	2.2%	2.6%	8.0%	4.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2016	84.1%	3.2%	2.1%	6.6%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	82.4%	3.4%	2.3%	7.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	83.1%	3.4%	2.5%	7.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	85.0%	4.0%	2.2%	5.3%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	86.5%	5.7%	2.1%	3.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	86.1%	6.5%	2.7%	2.7%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	89.1%	5.7%	2.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	5.9%	2.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	6.1%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 79.7% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cataño Municipio: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.9% to 0.8% of workers (down 7.1 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 5.8% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Cataño Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cataño Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Cataño 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 Cataño Municipio4.1% Puerto Rico6.3%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cataño Municipio3.3% Puerto Rico5.1%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cataño Municipio4.5% Puerto Rico5.5%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cataño Municipio12.5% Puerto Rico11.9%	12.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cataño Municipio16.3% Puerto Rico10.3%	16.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cataño Municipio18.4% Puerto Rico18.0%	18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cataño Municipio6.1% Puerto Rico10.0%	6.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cataño Municipio8.8% Puerto Rico10.4%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cataño Municipio3.6% Puerto Rico3.2%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cataño Municipio5.2% Puerto Rico5.4%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cataño Municipio4.9% Puerto Rico2.4%	4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cataño Municipio1.9% Puerto Rico1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cataño Municipio3.7% Puerto Rico6.0%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cataño Municipio6.8% Puerto Rico4.0%	6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cataño Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are less common than in Puerto Rico: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Puerto Rico's: 49.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Cataño 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 Cataño 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 Cataño 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	Cataño Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cataño Municipio were on the road by 7:15 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Puerto Rico the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Cataño Municipio now leave 23 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 Cataño Municipio has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Cataño Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Cataño Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 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	6.1%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

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

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau