Commuting in Guaynabo 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 Guaynabo Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Guaynabo Municipio spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.
Guaynabo Municipio holds about 2.8% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 2.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Guaynabo Municipio would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,346 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)
Guaynabo Municipio
22.7 min
45.4 min
189 hrs/yr
$5,865
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
22.7
minutes to get to work in
Guaynabo Municipio.
That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.5% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Guaynabo Municipio
Car:
85.7%
Worked at Home:
9.5%
Public Transportation:
2.1%
Other:
1.8%
Walked:
0.7%unusually low
Taxi:
0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Walking is unusually rare in Guaynabo Municipio: 3.3 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.7% vs 2.3%).
Few people walk or bike to work in Guaynabo Municipio: just 0.8%, 3.2 times below the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.
Commute Mode Trends in Guaynabo Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Guaynabo 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
Public Transportation
Other
Walked
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
85.1%
6.4%
3.4%
2.9%
1.6%
0.0%
0.5%
0.1%
2010
85.7%
5.6%
3.1%
3.0%
2.0%
0.0%
0.4%
0.2%
2011
88.2%
3.0%
3.3%
2.9%
2.1%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
2012
88.3%
3.3%
3.3%
2.1%
2.5%
0.0%
0.3%
0.2%
2013
88.3%
3.5%
3.3%
2.0%
2.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2014
89.8%
3.3%
2.8%
1.5%
2.5%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2015
90.2%
3.7%
2.9%
1.2%
2.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
90.3%
3.9%
2.7%
1.2%
1.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
90.5%
4.2%
2.4%
1.3%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
90.5%
4.1%
2.6%
1.3%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
90.0%
4.3%
2.5%
1.5%
1.4%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
88.3%
5.3%
2.6%
2.0%
1.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2021
85.7%
7.9%
2.8%
2.3%
1.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
86.0%
7.8%
2.6%
2.2%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
85.8%
8.6%
2.2%
2.0%
0.9%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
85.7%
9.5%
2.1%
1.8%
0.7%
0.1%
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 2017 at 90.5%. Overall it rose from 85.1% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points.
Working from home gained the most ground in Guaynabo Municipio: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 2.1% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).
Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.
Commute Start Times in Guaynabo Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Guaynabo Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Guaynabo 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.
Guaynabo MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Guaynabo Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are less common than in Puerto Rico: 8.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 56.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Guaynabo 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 Guaynabo 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 Guaynabo 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
Guaynabo Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:26 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:27 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:27 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:31 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:29 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:28 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:27 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:30 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:28 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:30 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:30 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:29 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:36 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:41 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:46 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Guaynabo Municipio were on the road by 7:46 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Guaynabo Municipio now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Guaynabo Municipio has moved 16 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Guaynabo Municipio in the whole series.
How does Guaynabo Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Guaynabo Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.7 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
9.5%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
0.7%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
2.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Guaynabo Municipio is about the same as in Puerto Rico.
2.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Guaynabo Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Guaynabo Municipio, PR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 89,378 residents against a local median of 67,088. The measure that sets Guaynabo Municipio, PR apart most is work from home: 9.5%, 32% above the local median of 7.2%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.7 min against a local median of 30.5 min, 26% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 26% below the local median it puts Guaynabo Municipio, PR at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.2% on work from home, so Guaynabo Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Guaynabo Municipio, PR has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Guaynabo Municipio, Puerto Rico.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Guaynabo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,865 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Guaynabo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Guaynabo Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 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).