Patillas Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Patillas Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Patillas 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 181 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Patillas Municipio holds about 0.5% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Patillas Municipio would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,249 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)
Patillas Municipio	21.8 min	43.5 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,622	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.

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On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Patillas Municipio. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% of counties in Puerto Rico

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 1.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Patillas Municipio

• Car: 86.0%
• Walked: 10.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 1.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.8% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is unusually common in Patillas Municipio: 4.6 times more than the Puerto Rico average (10.8% vs 2.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Patillas Municipio: 4.7 times less than the Puerto Rico average (1.3% vs 6.1%).

Biking is unusually common in Patillas Municipio: 7.0 times more than the Puerto Rico average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

Patillas Municipio stands out for active commuting: 11.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.7 times the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Patillas Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Patillas 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	88.1%	3.3%	2.4%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.1%
2010	89.3%	4.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2011	90.5%	4.5%	1.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2012	90.8%	4.4%	1.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2013	91.1%	4.4%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2014	92.2%	5.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2015	92.5%	3.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
2016	93.8%	2.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2017	94.0%	3.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2018	93.9%	3.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2019	93.4%	3.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2020	93.7%	4.7%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	5.9%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.4%	7.2%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.4%	11.2%	0.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	10.8%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	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 2017 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Patillas Municipio: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Patillas Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Patillas Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Patillas 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 Patillas Municipio13.1% Puerto Rico6.3%	13.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Patillas Municipio12.1% Puerto Rico5.1%	12.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Patillas Municipio3.5% Puerto Rico5.5%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Patillas Municipio12.4% Puerto Rico11.9%	12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Patillas Municipio9.1% Puerto Rico10.3%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Patillas Municipio10.0% Puerto Rico18.0%	10.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Patillas Municipio9.4% Puerto Rico10.0%	9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Patillas Municipio8.8% Puerto Rico10.4%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Patillas Municipio3.6% Puerto Rico3.2%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Patillas Municipio6.4% Puerto Rico5.4%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Patillas Municipio4.1% Puerto Rico2.4%	4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Patillas Municipio1.2% Puerto Rico1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Patillas Municipio3.8% Puerto Rico6.0%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Patillas Municipio2.4% Puerto Rico4.0%	2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Patillas Municipio is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.3% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 28.8% 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 (17.9%) 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 Patillas 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 Patillas 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 Patillas 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Patillas Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:04 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:03 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:02 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 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	7:10 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:01 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:58 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:46 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:51 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:03 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Patillas Municipio were on the road by 6:59 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:07 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Patillas Municipio now leave 39 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 Patillas Municipio has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Patillas Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Patillas Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.3%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	10.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Patillas Municipio is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 10.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau