Cayey Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cayey Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cayey Municipio spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Cayey Municipio holds about 1.3% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cayey Municipio would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,250 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)
Cayey Municipio	21.8 min	43.6 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,626	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 21.8 minutes to get to work in Cayey Municipio. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% 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 walking. About 0.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cayey Municipio

• Car: 95.7%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 1.7%
• Worked at Home: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Cayey Municipio: 3.6 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Cayey Municipio: 18.0 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.3% vs 6.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cayey Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cayey 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.

• Car
• Walked
• Other
• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	82.7%	5.1%	8.3%	0.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%
2010	81.1%	5.9%	9.4%	0.9%	1.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	82.2%	5.5%	8.5%	1.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	81.8%	6.0%	8.3%	2.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	82.1%	5.5%	9.0%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	81.6%	4.7%	9.6%	3.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	83.1%	4.5%	8.0%	3.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	84.8%	4.5%	7.0%	2.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	87.2%	3.5%	6.2%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.5%	2.6%	4.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	2.8%	2.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	95.2%	2.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.6%	1.8%	1.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.7%	2.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.5%	2.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.7%	1.8%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2010 at 81.1%. Overall it rose from 82.7% in 2009 to 95.7% in 2024, up 13.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.1% to 1.8% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.3% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Cayey Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cayey Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Cayey 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 Cayey Municipio5.2% Puerto Rico6.3%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cayey Municipio7.6% Puerto Rico5.1%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cayey Municipio8.0% Puerto Rico5.5%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cayey Municipio14.7% Puerto Rico11.9%	14.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cayey Municipio11.4% Puerto Rico10.3%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cayey Municipio15.0% Puerto Rico18.0%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cayey Municipio9.1% Puerto Rico10.0%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cayey Municipio8.5% Puerto Rico10.4%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cayey Municipio1.9% Puerto Rico3.2%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cayey Municipio4.0% Puerto Rico5.4%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cayey Municipio2.5% Puerto Rico2.4%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cayey Municipio2.0% Puerto Rico1.4%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cayey Municipio7.3% Puerto Rico6.0%	7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cayey Municipio2.8% Puerto Rico4.0%	2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cayey Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 20.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Cayey 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 Cayey 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 Cayey 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.

• Cayey Municipio
• Puerto Rico
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cayey Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cayey Municipio were on the road by 7:06 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Puerto Rico, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cayey Municipio now leave 32 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Cayey Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Cayey Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	0.3%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cayey Municipio is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau