San Sebastián Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in San Sebastián Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in San Sebastián 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 182 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.

San Sebastián Municipio holds about 1.2% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in San Sebastián Municipio would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,254 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)
San Sebastián Municipio	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,635	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 San Sebastián Municipio. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in San Sebastián Municipio

• Car: 91.0%
• Walked: 4.8%
• Worked at Home: 3.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in San Sebastián Municipio: 5.6 times more than the Puerto Rico average (0.3% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in San Sebastián Municipio: 3.7 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in San Sebastián Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in San Sebastián 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	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	88.1%	6.4%	2.7%	1.2%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	88.9%	5.5%	3.0%	0.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	89.5%	5.6%	3.0%	0.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	90.5%	5.6%	2.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	90.8%	5.3%	2.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	91.6%	4.1%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	92.6%	3.4%	2.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.1%	2.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.2%	2.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	2.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	3.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.1%	3.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.1%	3.2%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	4.7%	3.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	5.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	4.8%	3.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	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 95.2%. Overall it rose from 88.1% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.4% to 4.8% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in San Sebastián Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in San Sebastián Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in San Sebastián 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 San Sebastián Municipio7.5% Puerto Rico6.3%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM San Sebastián Municipio5.1% Puerto Rico5.1%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio4.9% Puerto Rico5.5%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM San Sebastián Municipio10.4% Puerto Rico11.9%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio12.0% Puerto Rico10.3%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM San Sebastián Municipio23.9% Puerto Rico18.0%	23.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio8.6% Puerto Rico10.0%	8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM San Sebastián Municipio9.4% Puerto Rico10.4%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio2.0% Puerto Rico3.2%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio2.7% Puerto Rico5.4%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio3.2% Puerto Rico2.4%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM San Sebastián Municipio1.2% Puerto Rico1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM San Sebastián Municipio5.3% Puerto Rico6.0%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM San Sebastián Municipio3.7% Puerto Rico4.0%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in San Sebastián Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.2%) 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 San Sebastián 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 San Sebastián 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 San Sebastián 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
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Show typical departure times by year

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

In 2024, half of commuters in San Sebastián Municipio were on the road by 7:13 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in San Sebastián Municipio now leave 25 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 San Sebastián Municipio has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does San Sebastián Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	San Sebastián Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.1%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau