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Loíza Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Loíza 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 Loíza Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Loíza Municipio spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Loíza Municipio holds about 0.7% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Loíza Municipio would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,244 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)
Loíza Municipio 31.4 min 62.8 min 262 hrs/yr $8,109 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

Fastest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Culebra Municipio (12.7 min)
  2. Jayuya Municipio (15.2 min)
  3. Vieques Municipio (16.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Naranjito Municipio (38.3 min)
  2. Toa Alta Municipio (33.8 min)
  3. Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Loíza Municipio
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.4 minutes to get to work in Loíza Municipio. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in Puerto Rico

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Loíza Municipio

  • Car: 89.8%
  • Worked at Home: 4.4%
  • Walked: 3.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Public Transportation: 0.6%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Loíza Municipio: 7.4 times more than the Puerto Rico average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Loíza Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Loíza 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 Bicycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 82.4% 1.1% 5.6% 0.5% 1.3% 8.2% 0.0% 0.9%
2010 85.0% 1.7% 4.7% 0.6% 0.7% 6.6% 0.0% 0.7%
2011 87.3% 1.9% 3.6% 1.0% 0.3% 5.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 85.9% 2.1% 3.9% 0.9% 0.2% 7.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 87.2% 1.4% 3.9% 0.7% 0.2% 6.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 87.5% 1.4% 2.6% 0.7% 0.1% 7.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 87.6% 0.6% 2.8% 0.6% 0.2% 8.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 87.8% 0.7% 2.8% 0.4% 0.2% 8.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 88.6% 0.9% 2.9% 0.5% 0.1% 7.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 89.9% 1.1% 2.3% 0.5% 0.0% 6.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 92.5% 0.8% 2.3% 0.7% 0.0% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.5% 1.6% 1.7% 0.6% 0.0% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 92.8% 2.1% 2.2% 0.6% 0.2% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.1% 3.4% 2.9% 0.7% 0.4% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 90.9% 4.0% 3.4% 0.8% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 89.8% 4.4% 3.6% 0.9% 0.7% 0.6% 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 2020 at 93.5%. Overall it rose from 82.4% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, up 7.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Loíza Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.2% to 0.6% of workers (down 7.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Loíza Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Loíza Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Loíza 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
8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
11.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
15.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Loíza Municipio is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 28.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 37.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Loíza 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 Loíza 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 Loíza 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 Loíza Municipio Puerto Rico United States
2009 6:45 AM 7:12 AM 7:37 AM
2010 6:41 AM 7:12 AM 7:38 AM
2011 6:41 AM 7:13 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:42 AM 7:14 AM 7:38 AM
2013 6:45 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:48 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:49 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:49 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:55 AM 7:17 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:58 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:56 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:52 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:46 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:49 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:47 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:48 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Loíza Municipio were on the road by 6:48 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (6:45 AM). Across Puerto Rico the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Loíza Municipio now leave 50 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 Loíza Municipio has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Loíza Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric Loíza Municipio Puerto Rico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 31.4 min 23.5 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 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 4.4% 6.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.6% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.6% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Loíza Municipio is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Loíza Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Loíza Municipio, PR is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,768 residents against a local median of 67,088. Where Loíza Municipio, PR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 46% below the local median of 8.2% at 4.4%.

The counties themselves spread 4.4% on work from home, so Loíza Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Loíza Municipio, PR has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Loíza Municipio, PR 22,768 31.4 min #4/6 4.4% #6/6 6:48 AM #1/6
Carolina Municipio, PR 152,197 27.8 min 11.4% 7:18 AM
Canóvanas Municipio, PR 41,816 32.6 min 6.9% 7:00 AM
Río Grande Municipio, PR 46,051 33.4 min 7.4% 7:09 AM
Trujillo Alto Municipio, PR 67,088 31.3 min 8.4% 7:18 AM
San Juan Municipio, PR 333,472 22.4 min 8.2% 7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Loíza Municipio, Puerto Rico.

Is commuting expensive in Loíza Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,109 at a typical national wage. That's 34% more than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Loíza Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Loíza Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 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), Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min).