Commuting in Hatillo 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 Hatillo Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Hatillo 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 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.
Hatillo Municipio holds about 1.2% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Hatillo Municipio would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,302 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)
Hatillo Municipio
22.3 min
44.6 min
186 hrs/yr
$5,755
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
22.3
minutes to get to work in
Hatillo Municipio.
That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Hatillo Municipio
Car:
93.9%
Worked at Home:
5.2%
Other:
0.5%
Walked:
0.4%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Hatillo Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Walking is unusually rare in Hatillo Municipio: 5.8 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.4% vs 2.3%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Hatillo Municipio: 13.3 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.1% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Hatillo Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Biking is unusually rare in Hatillo Municipio: 5411056.6 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Few people walk or bike to work in Hatillo Municipio: just 0.4%, 6.1 times below the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.
Commute Mode Trends in Hatillo Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Hatillo 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
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
93.0%
1.2%
1.1%
3.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2010
93.8%
0.8%
0.7%
3.5%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2011
94.0%
1.5%
0.6%
3.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
95.6%
1.7%
0.1%
2.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
96.0%
1.6%
0.0%
2.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
94.3%
1.7%
0.0%
3.8%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
93.8%
2.6%
0.0%
3.4%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
94.1%
2.3%
0.0%
3.4%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
93.8%
2.3%
0.0%
3.8%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
94.0%
2.7%
0.0%
3.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
95.0%
3.1%
0.0%
1.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
95.9%
2.8%
0.0%
1.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
94.5%
4.2%
0.4%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
94.1%
4.8%
0.4%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
93.9%
5.1%
0.4%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
93.9%
5.2%
0.5%
0.4%
0.1%
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 2013 at 96.0%. Overall it rose from 93.0% in 2009 to 93.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.
Working from home gained the most ground in Hatillo Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 5.2% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 0.4% of workers (down 3.4 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 Hatillo Municipio
😴Sleeping InThe 3rd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Puerto Rico's 78 counties: 26.7% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hatillo Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Hatillo 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.
Hatillo MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Hatillo Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 30.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are less common than in Puerto Rico: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 53.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Hatillo 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 Hatillo 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 Hatillo 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
Hatillo Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:34 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:37 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:35 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:27 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:29 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:29 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:29 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:29 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:48 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:39 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:31 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:29 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:30 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:39 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:28 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:26 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Hatillo Municipio were on the road by 7:26 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Hatillo Municipio now leave 11 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 Hatillo Municipio has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hatillo Municipio in the whole series.
How does Hatillo Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Hatillo Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.3 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
09:00 AM – 09:59 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
5.2%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
0.4%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Hatillo Municipio is 22.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
0.1% 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.
Hatillo Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Hatillo Municipio, PR is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 38,157 residents against a local median of 27,856. Hatillo Municipio, PR sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.
The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 4% below the local median at 22.3 min against 23.2 min. Hatillo Municipio, PR has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Hatillo Municipio, Puerto Rico.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Hatillo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,755 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Hatillo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hatillo Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Hatillo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
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).