Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Area Profile

166,923 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bayamón, in Bayamón Municipio.

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How this area ranks
Housing affordability3322nd of 4,223 published cities61
ClimateTop 22% of 4,223 published cities78
Physical resilience4069th of 4,182 published cities8
AccessTop 43% of 4,226 published cities94
Economic stability4183rd of 4,226 published cities18
The quick read

Rent takes 27% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.7 times that income.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, earthquake and landslide.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
166,923
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$31,750
Bottom 5% nationally
Density
6,163/sq mi
27.1 sq mi of land
Median age
44.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Bayamón Municipio
Puerto Rico
Metro area
Nearest major airport
SJU
11 mi · Luis Munoz Marin Intl
Median home value
$149,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $31,750 is below 95% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$958$31,750Bottom 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$575$19,601Bottom 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate34.2%Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.7 minTop 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher33.7%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation48.3%Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202432k28k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $31,750 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $706 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
26.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$706
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$149,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.72Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.4%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±95780,798Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$24$706Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$1,964$149,900Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.7%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate15.4%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 70°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 75.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 27, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TOA BAJA LEVITTOWN, 3.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND9.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation75.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low70°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index27.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing6°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
27
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
54
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

8 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU11 mi10,400 ft
MerceditaPSE37 mi8,002 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX101 mi10,002 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Bayamón

5 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
0095666,734$29,280
0095946,260$31,572
0095740,194$29,913
0096128,888$39,393
009603,025