Commuting in Fajardo 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 Fajardo Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Fajardo Municipio spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.
Fajardo Municipio holds about 1.0% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Fajardo Municipio would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,139 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)
Fajardo Municipio
20.7 min
41.4 min
173 hrs/yr
$5,348
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
20.7
minutes to get to work in
Fajardo Municipio.
That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 77% of counties in Puerto Rico
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.4% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Fajardo Municipio
Car:
84.5%
Worked at Home:
8.4%
Other:
3.3%
Walked:
1.7%
Public Transportation:
1.0%
Motorcycle:
0.7%unusually high
Bicycle:
0.1%
Taxi:
0.1%
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Fajardo Municipio: 14.9 times more than the Puerto Rico average (0.7% vs 0.0%).
Commute Mode Trends in Fajardo Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Fajardo 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
Other
Walked
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
Bicycle
2009
86.8%
0.5%
7.0%
2.9%
1.8%
0.7%
0.0%
0.4%
2010
86.2%
1.4%
6.4%
2.9%
2.0%
0.8%
0.0%
0.3%
2011
85.7%
2.1%
6.7%
3.1%
1.6%
0.4%
0.0%
0.5%
2012
86.3%
1.8%
5.9%
3.6%
1.4%
0.5%
0.0%
0.6%
2013
86.8%
1.6%
6.2%
3.2%
1.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.5%
2014
86.5%
1.6%
5.9%
4.1%
1.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.4%
2015
86.3%
1.7%
6.5%
4.1%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
0.4%
2016
85.6%
1.8%
7.1%
3.9%
0.9%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
2017
87.0%
2.1%
6.2%
3.1%
1.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
86.8%
2.8%
5.3%
3.3%
1.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
88.0%
4.1%
4.7%
2.1%
1.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
88.3%
4.3%
4.1%
1.8%
1.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2021
88.1%
6.4%
2.5%
1.0%
1.2%
0.8%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
86.8%
7.6%
2.3%
1.8%
0.6%
0.8%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
86.6%
7.4%
2.7%
1.7%
0.5%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
84.5%
8.4%
3.3%
1.7%
1.0%
0.7%
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 2020 at 88.3%. Overall it fell from 86.8% in 2009 to 84.5% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Fajardo Municipio: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Fajardo Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fajardo Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Fajardo 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.
Fajardo MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Fajardo Municipio is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 17.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 Fajardo 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 Fajardo 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 Fajardo 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
Fajardo Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:18 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:16 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:19 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:23 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:27 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:27 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:29 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:33 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:26 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:26 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:24 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:24 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:25 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:35 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:36 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:35 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Fajardo Municipio were on the road by 7:35 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Fajardo Municipio now leave 2 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 Fajardo Municipio has moved 11 minutes later.
How does Fajardo Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Fajardo Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.7 min
23.5 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
07:30 AM – 07:59 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
8.4%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.7%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.0%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Fajardo Municipio is 20.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Fajardo Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Fajardo Municipio, PR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 31,489 residents against a local median of 23,054. Where Fajardo Municipio, PR breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 32% below the local median of 30.4 min at 20.7 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 8.4% against a local median of 6.9%, 21% above it. The counties themselves spread 13.0 min on one-way commute, so Fajardo Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Fajardo Municipio, PR has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is living in Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,348 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in Puerto Rico have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).