Commuting in Guayama 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 Guayama Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Guayama 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 172 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.
Guayama Municipio holds about 1.1% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Guayama Municipio would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,133 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)
Guayama Municipio
20.6 min
41.3 min
172 hrs/yr
$5,332
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
20.6
minutes to get to work in
Guayama Municipio.
That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 78% of counties in Puerto Rico
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.8% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Guayama Municipio
Car:
94.0%
Worked at Home:
4.8%
Walked:
1.2%
Other:
< 0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Guayama Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Public transit is essentially absent in Guayama Municipio, versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Guayama Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Biking is essentially absent in Guayama Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Commute Mode Trends in Guayama Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Guayama 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
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
87.3%
1.7%
6.3%
3.3%
0.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.6%
2010
89.4%
1.6%
4.4%
3.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.3%
0.5%
2011
91.3%
1.9%
3.6%
1.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.5%
2012
91.1%
2.4%
3.9%
1.4%
0.9%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
2013
92.4%
2.0%
3.7%
0.7%
0.9%
0.0%
0.2%
0.3%
2014
93.3%
1.1%
2.6%
1.4%
1.1%
0.0%
0.2%
0.3%
2015
93.6%
1.6%
2.7%
1.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
93.1%
1.7%
3.4%
1.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
94.7%
1.2%
2.6%
1.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
94.2%
1.4%
2.4%
1.0%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
93.8%
2.4%
3.0%
0.2%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
94.2%
2.6%
2.6%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
94.6%
3.1%
1.7%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
94.8%
3.2%
1.4%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
94.5%
4.2%
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
94.0%
4.8%
1.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
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 2022 at 94.8%. Overall it rose from 87.3% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Guayama Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 1.2% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Guayama Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Guayama Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Guayama 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.
Guayama MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Guayama Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 22.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Puerto Rico's: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.7%) 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 Guayama 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 Guayama 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 Guayama 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
Guayama Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:12 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:13 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:13 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:14 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:11 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:11 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:14 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:17 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:18 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:16 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:17 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:11 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:09 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:02 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:07 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:06 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Guayama Municipio were on the road by 7:06 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:12 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Guayama Municipio now leave 32 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 Guayama Municipio has moved 11 minutes earlier.
How does Guayama Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Guayama Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.6 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
4.8%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.2%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Guayama Municipio is 20.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Guayama Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Guayama Municipio, PR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 35,297 residents against a local median of 25,079. Guayama Municipio, PR's work from home, at 4.8%, runs 266% above the 1.3% typical of the counties around it.
The counties themselves spread 5.2% on work from home, so Guayama Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Guayama Municipio, PR has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is living in Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 172 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,332 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 Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Guayama Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).