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Utuado Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Utuado 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 Utuado Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Utuado Municipio spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 229 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Utuado Municipio holds about 0.9% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Utuado Municipio would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,844 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)
Utuado Municipio 27.5 min 55.1 min 229 hrs/yr $7,111 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

Fastest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Culebra Municipio (12.7 min)
  2. Jayuya Municipio (15.2 min)
  3. Vieques Municipio (16.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Puerto Rico
  1. Naranjito Municipio (38.3 min)
  2. Toa Alta Municipio (33.8 min)
  3. Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Utuado Municipio
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.5 minutes to get to work in Utuado Municipio. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% of counties in Puerto Rico

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Utuado Municipio

  • Car: 92.3%
  • Worked at Home: 3.3%
  • Walked: 2.6%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Public Transportation: 0.8%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Utuado Municipio: 4682.7 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Utuado Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Utuado 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 Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 85.4% 1.8% 7.5% 4.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 87.8% 1.6% 7.2% 2.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2011 90.1% 1.0% 6.5% 1.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 92.6% 1.1% 5.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 91.6% 1.1% 6.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.6% 0.6% 8.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 90.5% 1.0% 7.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2016 89.4% 1.6% 8.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2017 88.4% 2.2% 8.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2018 89.7% 2.7% 6.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2019 90.8% 3.7% 4.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2020 90.9% 3.9% 4.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 92.6% 3.8% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.6% 4.3% 3.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.9% 3.6% 3.4% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 92.3% 3.3% 2.6% 1.1% 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 2012 at 92.6%. Overall it rose from 85.4% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Utuado Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 3.3% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.5% to 2.6% of workers (down 4.9 percentage points).

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

Working from home peaked at 4.3% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 3.3%.

Commute Start Times in Utuado Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Utuado Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Utuado 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
7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
13.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
15.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Utuado Municipio is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.3% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 52.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.6%) 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 Utuado 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 Utuado 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 Utuado 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 Utuado Municipio Puerto Rico United States
2009 7:06 AM 7:12 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:10 AM 7:12 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:14 AM 7:13 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:13 AM 7:14 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:13 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:16 AM 7:15 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:17 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:12 AM 7:16 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:13 AM 7:17 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:09 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:03 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:56 AM 7:15 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:03 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:09 AM 7:16 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:04 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:01 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Utuado Municipio were on the road by 7:01 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:06 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Utuado Municipio now leave 37 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 Utuado Municipio has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Utuado Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric Utuado Municipio Puerto Rico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.5 min 23.5 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 3.3% 6.1% 15.0%
Walked 2.6% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.8% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Utuado Municipio is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Utuado Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Utuado Municipio, PR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 27,621 residents against a local median of 17,958. Utuado Municipio, PR's one-way commute, at 27.5 min, runs 25% above the 22.0 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 7.3 min on one-way commute, so Utuado Municipio, PR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Utuado Municipio, PR has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Utuado Municipio, PR 27,621 27.5 min #6/6 3.3% #3/6 7:01 AM #1/6
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 17,958 18.6 min 5.4% 7:06 AM
Jayuya Municipio, PR 14,566 15.2 min 0.0% 7:08 AM
Lares Municipio, PR 27,856 22.2 min 0.9% 7:14 AM
Arecibo Municipio, PR 86,478 22.0 min 5.1% 7:23 AM
Florida Municipio, PR 11,533 22.5 min 2.9% 7:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Utuado Municipio, Puerto Rico.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Utuado Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 229 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,111 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Utuado Municipio, Puerto Rico?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Utuado Municipio, Puerto Rico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Puerto Rico have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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), Río Grande Municipio (33.4 min).