Villalba Municipio Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Villalba Municipio: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Villalba Municipio spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Puerto Rico average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Villalba Municipio holds about 0.7% of Puerto Rico's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Villalba Municipio would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,637 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)
Villalba Municipio	25.5 min	51.0 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,592	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 25.5 minutes to get to work in Villalba Municipio. That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Puerto Rico

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 1.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Villalba Municipio

• Car: 94.7%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Worked at Home: 1.7% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.7%
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Villalba Municipio: 3.5 times less than the Puerto Rico average (1.7% vs 6.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Villalba Municipio: 641140.9 times less than the Puerto Rico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Villalba Municipio, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Villalba 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.4%	5.2%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	4.7%	1.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	4.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	92.9%	4.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	92.8%	3.9%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	3.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	3.2%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	3.3%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.9%	2.1%	2.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.7%	2.3%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.1%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	98.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.9%	2.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.9%	2.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.7%	2.4%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	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 2021 at 98.1%. Overall it rose from 91.4% in 2009 to 94.7% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 2.4% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.3% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Villalba Municipio

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Villalba Municipio?

The bars show when commuters in Villalba 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 Villalba Municipio7.8% Puerto Rico6.3%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Villalba Municipio7.9% Puerto Rico5.1%	7.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Villalba Municipio8.3% Puerto Rico5.5%	8.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Villalba Municipio13.5% Puerto Rico11.9%	13.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Villalba Municipio14.0% Puerto Rico10.3%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Villalba Municipio21.9% Puerto Rico18.0%	21.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Villalba Municipio5.0% Puerto Rico10.0%	5.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Villalba Municipio6.0% Puerto Rico10.4%	6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Villalba Municipio3.2% Puerto Rico3.2%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Villalba Municipio4.4% Puerto Rico5.4%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Villalba Municipio0.0% Puerto Rico2.4%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Villalba Municipio1.1% Puerto Rico1.4%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Villalba Municipio4.5% Puerto Rico6.0%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Villalba Municipio2.5% Puerto Rico4.0%	2.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Villalba Municipio is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 18.0% across Puerto Rico. Early starts are more common than in Puerto Rico: 24.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Puerto Rico's: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.7% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.3%) 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 Villalba 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 Villalba 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 Villalba 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Villalba Municipio	Puerto Rico	United States
2009	7:02 AM	7:12 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:53 AM	7:12 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:45 AM	7:13 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:42 AM	7:14 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:48 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	7:01 AM	7:17 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:58 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:59 AM	7:15 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:00 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:56 AM	7:16 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:57 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Villalba Municipio were on the road by 6:57 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:02 AM). That goes against the trend across Puerto Rico, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Villalba Municipio now leave 41 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Villalba Municipio's commute time compare?

Metric	Villalba Municipio	Puerto Rico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.5 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	1.7%	6.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Villalba Municipio is 25.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in Puerto Rico.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Puerto Rico. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Puerto Rico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau