Sabana Grande Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sabana Grande Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sabana Grande Municipio spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Sabana Grande Municipio holds about 0.7% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sabana Grande Municipio would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,145 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)
Sabana Grande Municipio	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,363	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 20.8 minutes to get to work in Sabana Grande Municipio. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 74% of counties in Puerto Rico

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 walking. About 1.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sabana Grande Municipio

• Car: 94.1%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Worked at Home: 1.9% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 1.1%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Sabana Grande Municipio: 3.2 times less than the Puerto Rico average (1.9% vs 6.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sabana Grande Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sabana Grande 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
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• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	94.8%	1.7%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	94.9%	2.0%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	93.7%	2.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%
2012	94.3%	2.6%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	94.0%	3.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	93.1%	3.8%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	94.0%	3.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
2016	94.2%	2.3%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.5%	3.7%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	92.1%	4.3%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	90.8%	3.7%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2020	89.7%	3.8%	4.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2021	89.2%	4.9%	2.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%
2022	90.3%	3.8%	2.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2023	92.7%	2.6%	1.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2024	94.1%	2.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2010 at 94.9% and lowest in 2021 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 94.1% in 2024, down 0.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Sabana Grande Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 4.1% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.

Commute Start Times in Sabana Grande Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sabana Grande Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Sabana Grande 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 Sabana Grande Municipio3.8% Puerto Rico6.3%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sabana Grande Municipio6.7% Puerto Rico5.1%	6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio5.6% Puerto Rico5.5%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sabana Grande Municipio9.7% Puerto Rico11.9%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio8.9% Puerto Rico10.3%	8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sabana Grande Municipio28.9% Puerto Rico18.0%	28.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio12.5% Puerto Rico10.0%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sabana Grande Municipio6.3% Puerto Rico10.4%	6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio1.9% Puerto Rico3.2%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio3.9% Puerto Rico5.4%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio0.3% Puerto Rico2.4%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sabana Grande Municipio0.9% Puerto Rico1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sabana Grande Municipio8.0% Puerto Rico6.0%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sabana Grande Municipio2.7% Puerto Rico4.0%	2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sabana Grande Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 28.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 56.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.8%) 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 Sabana Grande 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 Sabana Grande 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 Sabana Grande 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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• Puerto Rico
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sabana Grande Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sabana Grande Municipio were on the road by 7:16 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Puerto Rico followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Sabana Grande Municipio now leave 22 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 Sabana Grande Municipio has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Sabana Grande Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Sabana Grande Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	1.9%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sabana Grande Municipio is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau