San Mateo has a variety of conveyances that provide the residents with ready means of transportation. These are public utility jeepneys, buses, tricycles, pedicabs and even airconditioned Tamaraw FX taxis are operating in the town. These facilitate the movement of people and goods to Metro Manila and nearby towns of Rizal.

There are two jeepney terminals in San Mateo, one at Modesta Village, Barangay Sto Niño, and Tierra Monte, Barangay Silangan, respectively.

Transportation routes passing San Mateo, are Montalban-Cubao (jeepneys), San Mateo-Cubao (jeepneys),  Marikina San Mateo (jeepneys), & Commonwealth, QC-San Mateo (jeepneys) thru the San Mateo-Batasan Bridge . These routes traverses Quezon City, Marikina, San Mateo and Montalban.

Jeepneys are the most common form of transportation within the municipality because of its convenience and low fare as compared to other forms of transportation. Other modes are tricycles and pedicabs which are used mainly to transport people and goods where regular jeepney routes are not available.

Power services in the town are provided by the Manila Electric Company, Inc. (MERALCO), except in the mountain barangay of Pintong Bukawe. There were 23,189 customers in San Mateo as of March 1999.  Of these, 27,115 or 95.37 percent residential customers while commercial, industrial and streetlights number 971 (4.19 percent), 36 (0.15 percent), and 67 (0.29 percent), respectively. The municipality of San Mateo had a total demand of 55,355 megawatt-hours in 1998.

The main source of the municipality's water supply are deep wells, pump wells (operated by Manila Water), open wells, springs and other ground water resources. The municipality can be classified as a watershed since its topography is characterized by rolling to mountainous terrain.

Telecommunications serve as a major link, within the sub-sectors and among other sectors of the economy, in the population centers and hinterlands. It also serves as a catalyst for growth and development. Telephone (Fixed landline & Wireless), & DSL Broadband Internet services are being provided by the Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), PT&T and Digitel. While cellular phone services are provide by Globe Telecom, Smart Com, and Sun Cellular.