Commuting in Santa Isabel 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 Santa Isabel Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Santa Isabel Municipio spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.
Santa Isabel Municipio holds about 0.6% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Santa Isabel Municipio would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,313 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)
Santa Isabel Municipio
22.4 min
44.8 min
187 hrs/yr
$5,783
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
22.4
minutes to get to work in
Santa Isabel Municipio.
That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Santa Isabel Municipio
Car:
93.4%
Worked at Home:
4.6%
Walked:
1.2%
Bicycle:
0.7%unusually high
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Other:
< 0.1%
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Santa Isabel Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Public transit is essentially absent in Santa Isabel Municipio, versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Santa Isabel Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Biking is unusually common in Santa Isabel Municipio: 6.1 times more than the Puerto Rico average (0.7% vs 0.1%).
Commute Mode Trends in Santa Isabel Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Santa Isabel 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
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Other
2009
85.5%
0.9%
6.9%
0.6%
1.8%
0.0%
0.2%
4.2%
2010
87.3%
0.8%
5.7%
1.0%
1.6%
0.0%
0.2%
3.4%
2011
89.2%
0.7%
4.5%
1.0%
1.6%
0.0%
0.2%
2.8%
2012
92.4%
0.7%
3.4%
0.8%
1.1%
0.0%
0.2%
1.4%
2013
93.4%
1.3%
3.0%
0.6%
0.4%
0.0%
0.2%
1.2%
2014
94.6%
1.2%
3.0%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
94.1%
1.7%
3.4%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
94.0%
2.3%
2.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
92.8%
2.5%
3.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
94.6%
1.9%
2.7%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
94.9%
2.2%
2.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
94.6%
2.9%
1.9%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
94.4%
2.9%
1.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
94.7%
3.9%
0.5%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
93.7%
4.1%
1.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
93.4%
4.6%
1.2%
0.7%
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 peaked in 2019 at 94.9%. Overall it rose from 85.5% in 2009 to 93.4% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Santa Isabel Municipio: its share of workers rose from 0.9% in 2009 to 4.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.9% to 1.2% of workers (down 5.7 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Santa Isabel Municipio
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Santa Isabel Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Santa Isabel 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.
Santa Isabel MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Santa Isabel Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 28.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 43.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.4%) 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 Santa Isabel 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 Santa Isabel 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 Santa Isabel 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
Santa Isabel Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:11 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:08 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:07 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:06 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:05 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:02 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:02 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:05 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:06 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
6:58 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:02 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:03 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:05 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
6:54 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
6:56 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
6:54 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Santa Isabel Municipio were on the road by 6:54 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Santa Isabel Municipio now leave 44 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 Santa Isabel Municipio has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Santa Isabel Municipio in the whole series.
How does Santa Isabel Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Santa Isabel Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.4 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
12:00 AM – 04:59 AM
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
4.6%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
1.2%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Santa Isabel Municipio is 22.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 19,903 residents against a local median of 25,079. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Santa Isabel Municipio, PR an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.
The largest of those small differences is work from home, 6% above the local median at 4.6% against 4.4%. Santa Isabel Municipio, PR has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,783 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Santa Isabel Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Puerto Rico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
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).