Aguadilla Municipio, PR

County Profile

54,137 residents. Jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Aguadilla Municipio, PR.

46out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 10% of 1,453 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 8 sources
Opportunity1,018th of 1,463 counties measured45
SchoolsTop 47% of 1,377 counties measured53
GrowthTop 31% of 1,453 counties measured61
Housing affordability1,336th of 1,462 counties measured53
ClimateTop 45% of 1,463 counties measured70
Physical resilience1,412th of 1,463 counties measured11
Access1,055th of 1,463 counties measured69
Economic stability1,460th of 1,463 counties measured4
The quick read

Unemployment is 10.1% and median household income $21,540, putting employment conditions in the middle range of counties measured.

In the public schools here, 29% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 9.8 students for every teacher.

149 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 3% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
54,137
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$21,540
Bottom 1% nationally
Density
1,482/sq mi
36.5 sq mi of land
Median age
45.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Aguadilla Municipio
Puerto Rico
Metro area
Nearest major airport
PSE
50 mi · Mercedita
Median home value
$150,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 10.1% — higher than in all but 1% of the 1,467 measured US counties.

Employment grew 3.1% over the past year, to 17,229 employed residents.

28% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 72% of measured US counties.

Median household income of $21,540 is lower than in 99% of measured US counties.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$1,6082024 ACS 5-Year$21,540Bottom 1%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$9032024 ACS 5-Year$15,387Bottom 1%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year44.8%Bottom 1%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.5 min2024 ACS 5-Year22.7 minTop 29%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year28.1%Top 28%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year85.4%94th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202617,229Bottom 25%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+8.8%Top 1%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+3.1%Top 4%of 1,467July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202619,16628th percentileof 1,467July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year58.8%Bottom 6%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%44th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+1.2%Bottom 3%of 1,467July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 202610.1%Bottom 1%of 1,467July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year8.1%45th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/082022/082023/082024/082025/082026/07106.3
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 10.1% in July 2026. It has been rising for the last 3 months, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07.

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202422k17k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $21,540 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.

Largest occupations — Aguadilla, PR

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators2,860$24,960
Retail Salespersons2,660$21,950
Cashiers1,830$21,840
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,600$21,940
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners1,160$22,010
Office Clerks, General1,100$22,240

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

29% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 43% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 9.8 students for every full-time teacher across 10 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
9.8
across 10 of them
Math proficiency
29.4%
Bottom 46% in Puerto Rico
Reading proficiency
43.1%
Bottom 36% in Puerto Rico
All 11 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Juan Suarez PelegrinaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION48813.68%37%
Antonio Badillo HernandezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION48011.228%33%
Su Conchita Iguartua De SuarezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION4568.434%51%
Benito Cerezo VazquezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION41411.23%42%
Ester Feliciano MendozaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2629.024%32%
Homero Rivera SolaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION24112.182%62%
Ana M. JavarizPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION22610.377%82%
Jose De Diego AguadillaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2228.226%28%
Salvador FuentesPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION1766.55%35%
Luis Munoz Rivera AguadillaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION1506.852%37%
Centro De Adiestramiento Y Bellas ArtesPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION0———

87.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Puerto Rico’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $569 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.38% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $564, some 11% above the $509 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $564 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $22,600 a year, about 105% of the median household income here of $21,540.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $509 a month.

A median home at $150,800 costs 5.2 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $29,044, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
28.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.2×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$564
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$509
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$150,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Aguadilla Municipio’s median household income of $21,540, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income ±0.52024 ACS 5-Year5.2Bottom 3%of 3,2172024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year55.9%4th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6262024 ACS 5-Year28,77773rd percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$482Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$680Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$564Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Median gross rent ±$622024 ACS 5-Year$509Top 2%of 3,2152024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,7472024 ACS 5-Year$150,80030th percentileof 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1482024 ACS 5-Year$5696th percentileof 3,1722024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$2,3102024 ACS 5-Year$29,044Bottom 2%of 3,2182024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.10%2024 ACS 5-Year0.38%5th percentileof 3,1262024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year28.2%Bottom 46%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2202024 ACS 5-Year98974th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year3.4%56th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year19.1%95th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±5202024 ACS 5-Year6,48285th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures.

Development Momentum

61/ 100
Top 31% of 1,453 published county profiles
The most recent move in permitting was broadly flat, in a series running from 2022 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 149 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US counties.

Units permitted
149
2025 calendar year
Per 1,000 residents
2.8
Bottom 48% nationally
Year over year
+3%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Housing units permitted per year

2022202320242025193127
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+17%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 68°F.

60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BORINQUEN AP, 1.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

MetricValueSource period
Average January low1991-2020 Normals68°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals6°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

11 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and inland flooding, with hurricane alone responsible for 49% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneHigh
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: avalanche, coastal flooding, cold wave, drought, hail, heat wave, ice storm, inland flooding, lightning, strong wind, tornado, tsunami, volcanic activity, wildfire, winter weather.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). These are FEMA’s own figures for this county rather than a value derived from surrounding geographies. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. City profiles inside this area carry their own figure where their department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Cost of living
Regional price parities are published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis for the fifty states, the District of Columbia and their metropolitan areas. Puerto Rico is outside that program.
Death-certificate rates
The CDC provisional county file covers the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Puerto Rico is not in it, so the homicide, firearm, overdose and suicide rates shown elsewhere on this site have no counterpart here.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. Cost of living is published where the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures it, though not for this place. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Mercedita at 50 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year83.3%Bottom 25%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle50 miBottom 31%of 1,463NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 15%of 1,463NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year15.2%Bottom 19%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
MerceditaPSE50 mi8,002 ft
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU75 mi10,400 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX163 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 period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
2025 calendar year
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

Cities in Aguadilla Municipio, PR

ZIP areas

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