Commuting in Vieques 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 Vieques Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Vieques Municipio spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.
Vieques Municipio holds about 0.3% of Puerto Rico's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Vieques Municipio would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,653 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)
Vieques Municipio
16.0 min
32.0 min
133 hrs/yr
$4,134
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
16.0
minutes to get to work in
Vieques Municipio.
That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Among the top 3 fastest counties in Puerto Rico
The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.0% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Vieques Municipio
Car:
66.0%unusually low
Worked at Home:
24.0%unusually high
Walked:
7.9%unusually high
Public Transportation:
1.2%
Other:
0.9%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Vieques Municipio, versus 0.0% in Puerto Rico.
Driving is 26% less common in Vieques Municipio than the Puerto Rico average (66.0% vs 89.0%).
Walking is unusually common in Vieques Municipio: 3.4 times more than the Puerto Rico average (7.9% vs 2.3%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Vieques Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Working from home is unusually common in Vieques Municipio: 3.9 times more than the Puerto Rico average (24.0% vs 6.1%).
Biking is essentially absent in Vieques Municipio, versus 0.1% in Puerto Rico.
Vieques Municipio stands out for active commuting: 7.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Puerto Rico average of 2.5%.
Commute Mode Trends in Vieques Municipio, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Vieques 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
Public Transportation
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
75.0%
1.5%
15.4%
3.3%
4.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
78.8%
1.4%
14.7%
2.6%
2.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
75.2%
3.4%
15.9%
3.0%
2.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
75.8%
3.9%
14.5%
3.4%
2.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
80.6%
1.7%
13.6%
1.6%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
85.5%
1.7%
11.7%
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
86.9%
1.4%
10.8%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
91.1%
2.0%
6.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
93.3%
1.7%
5.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
91.4%
3.8%
4.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
89.3%
6.5%
4.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
79.0%
17.5%
3.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
65.3%
24.8%
8.4%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
61.8%
28.0%
7.8%
1.6%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
60.2%
30.1%
7.5%
1.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
66.0%
24.0%
7.9%
1.2%
0.9%
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 2017 at 93.3% and lowest in 2023 at 60.2%. Overall it fell from 75.0% in 2009 to 66.0% in 2024, down 9.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Working from home gained the most ground in Vieques Municipio: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 24.0% in 2024, up 22.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 15.4% to 7.9% of workers (down 7.5 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.
Working from home peaked at 30.1% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 24.0%.
Commute Start Times in Vieques Municipio
🦉Night OwlThe 2nd-latest start among Puerto Rico's 78 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 8:02 AM.
🛌Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among Puerto Rico's 78 counties: the typical start is 42 minutes later than in 2009.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vieques Municipio?
The bars show when commuters in Vieques 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.
Vieques MunicipioPuerto RicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Vieques Municipio is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 31.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are less common than in Puerto Rico: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Puerto Rico: 60.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Vieques 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 Vieques 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 Vieques 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
Vieques Municipio
Puerto Rico
United States
2009
7:20 AM
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:16 AM
7:12 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:08 AM
7:13 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:04 AM
7:14 AM
7:38 AM
2013
6:59 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2014
6:59 AM
7:15 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:19 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:21 AM
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:21 AM
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:35 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:30 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:20 AM
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:36 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:53 AM
7:16 AM
7:37 AM
2023
8:04 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
8:02 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Vieques Municipio were on the road by 8:02 AM, 42 minutes later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). The shift is sharper than across Puerto Rico, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Vieques Municipio now leave 24 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Vieques Municipio has moved 33 minutes later.
How does Vieques Municipio's commute time compare?
Metric
Vieques Municipio
Puerto Rico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
16.0 min
23.5 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
08:00 AM – 08:29 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
24.0%
6.1%
15.0%
Walked
7.9%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.2%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Vieques Municipio is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.
1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 7.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.
Vieques Municipio, PR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Vieques Municipio, PR is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,078 residents against a local median of 23,054. The measure that sets Vieques Municipio, PR apart most is work from home: 24.0%, more than 4 times the local median of 5.0%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.0 min against a local median of 20.7 min, 23% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% below the local median it puts Vieques Municipio, PR at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves sit within 5.1% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Vieques Municipio, PR, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Vieques Municipio, PR has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Vieques Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Is commuting expensive in Vieques Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 133 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,134 at a typical national wage. That's 32% less than the typical Puerto Rico commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Vieques Municipio, Puerto Rico?
Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Vieques 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.
How much money can remote workers save in Vieques Municipio, Puerto Rico?
About 24.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Vieques Municipio would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,653 at the same national wage assumption used above.
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).