Commuting in Isabela 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 Isabela Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Isabela 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 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.
Isabela Municipio holds about 1.3% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Isabela Municipio would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,329 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)
Isabela Municipio
22.5 min
45.1 min
188 hrs/yr
$5,822
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
22.5
minutes to get to work in
Isabela 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 5.0% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Isabela Municipio
Car:
90.8%
Worked at Home:
5.0%
Walked:
3.3%
Other:
0.8%
Bicycle:
0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Isabela Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Public transit is essentially absent in Isabela Municipio, versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Isabela Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Commute Mode Trends in Isabela Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Isabela 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
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
91.4%
0.6%
5.7%
0.6%
0.3%
1.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2010
92.8%
0.7%
4.4%
1.0%
0.1%
1.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
93.3%
0.4%
4.7%
0.6%
0.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
93.5%
0.5%
4.9%
0.3%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
94.8%
0.5%
4.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
95.7%
0.2%
3.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
96.2%
0.2%
3.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
96.3%
0.4%
2.5%
0.1%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
96.3%
0.7%
2.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
96.4%
0.7%
2.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
96.1%
0.8%
2.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
95.5%
1.0%
2.8%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
94.2%
1.7%
3.7%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
93.4%
2.8%
3.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
91.8%
3.9%
3.5%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
90.8%
5.0%
3.3%
0.8%
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 2018 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Isabela Municipio: its share of workers rose from 0.6% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 3.3% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Isabela Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Isabela Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Isabela 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.
Isabela MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Isabela Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are less common than in Puerto Rico: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Isabela 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 Isabela 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 Isabela 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
Isabela Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:22 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:20 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:23 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:23 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:23 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:22 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:28 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:32 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:29 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:24 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:23 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:17 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:13 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:19 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:24 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:24 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Isabela Municipio were on the road by 7:24 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Across Puerto Rico the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Isabela Municipio now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).
How does Isabela Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Isabela Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.5 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
5.0%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
3.3%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Isabela Municipio is about the same as in Puerto Rico.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Isabela Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Isabela Municipio, PR is typical in size for this group, 42,890 residents against a local median of 37,423, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Isabela Municipio, PR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 38% below the local median of 8.0% at 5.0%.
The counties themselves spread 7.4% on work from home, so Isabela Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Isabela Municipio, PR has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Isabela Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is living in Isabela Municipio, Puerto Rico good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,822 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Isabela Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Isabela 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.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Isabela 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).