Toa Alta Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Toa Alta Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Toa Alta Municipio spend about 68 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 282 hours, about 11.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 10.3 minutes.

Toa Alta Municipio holds about 2.1% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 3.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Toa Alta Municipio would save about 113 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,494 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)
Toa Alta Municipio	33.8 min	67.6 min	282 hrs/yr	$8,736	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 33.8 minutes to get to work in Toa Alta Municipio. That's 51% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Puerto Rico

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Toa Alta Municipio

• Car: 91.5%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Other: 2.8%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Toa Alta Municipio: 13.8 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.2% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Toa Alta Municipio: 5857448.8 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Toa Alta Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.

Few people walk or bike to work in Toa Alta Municipio: just 0.2%, 14.5 times below the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Toa Alta Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Toa Alta 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	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	0.7%	2.0%	1.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	1.0%	2.0%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	92.6%	1.0%	2.4%	1.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	92.8%	1.0%	2.6%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2013	94.1%	0.6%	2.4%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	94.3%	0.7%	2.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	94.7%	0.6%	1.7%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	94.9%	0.7%	1.3%	1.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.1%	1.8%	1.1%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	2.1%	0.5%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	2.2%	0.8%	1.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.4%	2.2%	1.4%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	2.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.0%	2.9%	2.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	4.2%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.5%	5.6%	2.8%	0.2%	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 2016 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, down 2.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Toa Alta Municipio: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Toa Alta Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Toa Alta Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Toa Alta 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 Toa Alta Municipio4.5% Puerto Rico6.3%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Toa Alta Municipio4.6% Puerto Rico5.1%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio7.7% Puerto Rico5.5%	7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Toa Alta Municipio22.7% Puerto Rico11.9%	22.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio9.6% Puerto Rico10.3%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Toa Alta Municipio15.2% Puerto Rico18.0%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio6.5% Puerto Rico10.0%	6.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Toa Alta Municipio13.4% Puerto Rico10.4%	13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio1.9% Puerto Rico3.2%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio5.3% Puerto Rico5.4%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio2.9% Puerto Rico2.4%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Toa Alta Municipio0.3% Puerto Rico1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Toa Alta Municipio3.2% Puerto Rico6.0%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Toa Alta Municipio2.4% Puerto Rico4.0%	2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Toa Alta Municipio is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 22.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are about as common as in Puerto Rico: 16.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Puerto Rico: 44.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Toa Alta 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 Toa Alta 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 Toa Alta 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	Toa Alta Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	6:52 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:49 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:48 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:46 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:46 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:47 AM	7:15 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:51 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:54 AM	7:16 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:56 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:55 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:52 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:56 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:57 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:57 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:58 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Toa Alta Municipio were on the road by 7:02 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (6:52 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Toa Alta Municipio now leave 36 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 Toa Alta Municipio has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Toa Alta Municipio in the whole series.

How does Toa Alta Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Toa Alta Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.8 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.6%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Toa Alta Municipio is 33.8 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau