Commuting in Luquillo 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 Luquillo Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Luquillo Municipio spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.
Luquillo Municipio holds about 0.5% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Luquillo Municipio would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,366 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)
Luquillo Municipio
22.9 min
45.8 min
191 hrs/yr
$5,916
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
22.9
minutes to get to work in
Luquillo Municipio.
That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Luquillo Municipio
Car:
85.8%
Worked at Home:
6.9%
Walked:
3.6%
Other:
2.5%
Public Transportation:
0.5%
Taxi:
0.3%
Bicycle:
0.3%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Luquillo Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Commute Mode Trends in Luquillo Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Luquillo 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
Public Transportation
Taxi
Bicycle
Motorcycle
2009
84.6%
2.6%
3.8%
6.2%
2.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2010
83.9%
2.5%
3.4%
7.4%
2.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2011
85.4%
1.7%
3.0%
7.8%
1.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
87.3%
0.8%
3.3%
7.1%
1.4%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2013
87.0%
0.6%
2.9%
8.0%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
85.8%
0.3%
3.1%
8.8%
2.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
88.1%
0.6%
2.8%
7.0%
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
89.6%
0.8%
2.5%
5.9%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
89.0%
1.5%
2.9%
5.1%
1.2%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2018
90.7%
1.8%
2.6%
3.3%
1.2%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2019
91.8%
1.6%
2.3%
3.5%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2020
91.0%
1.7%
2.9%
3.2%
0.3%
0.4%
0.5%
0.0%
2021
90.2%
2.7%
2.8%
2.9%
0.4%
0.4%
0.6%
0.0%
2022
88.9%
2.8%
3.3%
3.8%
0.4%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
2023
86.3%
5.0%
3.0%
4.5%
0.5%
0.4%
0.4%
0.0%
2024
85.8%
6.9%
3.6%
2.5%
0.5%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 91.8% and lowest in 2010 at 83.9%. Overall it rose from 84.6% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Luquillo Municipio: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.2 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 Luquillo Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Luquillo Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Luquillo 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.
Luquillo MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Luquillo Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 20.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 41.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.3%) 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 Luquillo 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 Luquillo 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 Luquillo 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
Luquillo Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:16 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:14 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:13 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:10 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:10 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:08 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:13 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:17 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:27 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:25 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:34 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:33 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:27 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:21 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:24 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:20 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Luquillo Municipio were on the road by 7:20 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Puerto Rico the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Luquillo Municipio now leave 18 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 Luquillo Municipio has moved 14 minutes earlier.
How does Luquillo Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Luquillo Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.9 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
6.9%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
3.6%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.5%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Luquillo Municipio is about the same as in Puerto Rico.
0.5% 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.
Luquillo Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Luquillo Municipio, PR is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 17,532 residents against a local median of 31,489. The measure that sets Luquillo Municipio, PR apart most is one-way commute: 22.9 min, 25% below the local median of 30.4 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 13.0 min on one-way commute, so Luquillo Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Luquillo Municipio, PR has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Luquillo Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is living in Luquillo Municipio, Puerto Rico good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,916 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Luquillo Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Luquillo Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How do commute times compare across 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).