Lares Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lares Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lares Municipio spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Lares Municipio holds about 0.9% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lares Municipio would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,290 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)
Lares Municipio	22.2 min	44.3 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,726	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.

Commute Time Map: Puerto Rico Counties

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On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Lares Municipio. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 0.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lares Municipio

• Car: 95.0%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Worked at Home: 0.9% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Lares Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lares Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.

Working from home is unusually rare in Lares Municipio: 6.8 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.9% vs 6.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Lares Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.

Commute Mode Trends in Lares Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lares 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.

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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.3%	8.8%	1.9%	1.4%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.9%	7.3%	2.2%	0.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	89.3%	7.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.0%	5.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.5%	5.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	5.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.5%	4.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	97.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	2.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.7%	1.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	1.1%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.6%	1.0%	2.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.5%	2.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	95.0%	2.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	95.1%	3.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	95.0%	3.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2016 at 97.0%. Overall it rose from 85.3% in 2009 to 95.0% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.8% to 3.5% of workers (down 5.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lares Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lares Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Lares 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.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Lares Municipio7.1% Puerto Rico6.3%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lares Municipio4.9% Puerto Rico5.1%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lares Municipio5.2% Puerto Rico5.5%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lares Municipio11.5% Puerto Rico11.9%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lares Municipio15.6% Puerto Rico10.3%	15.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lares Municipio12.1% Puerto Rico18.0%	12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lares Municipio11.9% Puerto Rico10.0%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lares Municipio11.9% Puerto Rico10.4%	11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lares Municipio1.9% Puerto Rico3.2%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lares Municipio2.9% Puerto Rico5.4%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lares Municipio2.1% Puerto Rico2.4%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lares Municipio3.9% Puerto Rico1.4%	3.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lares Municipio4.7% Puerto Rico6.0%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lares Municipio4.2% Puerto Rico4.0%	4.2%

Lares Municipio Puerto Rico Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lares Municipio is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.3% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Lares 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 Lares 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 Lares 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.

• Lares Municipio
• Puerto Rico
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lares Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lares Municipio were on the road by 7:14 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Puerto Rico the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Lares Municipio now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Lares Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Lares Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	0.9%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lares Municipio is 22.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau