Humacao Municipio, PR

County Profile

50,100 residents. Jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Humacao Municipio, PR.

50out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 18% of 1,453 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 8 sources
Opportunity1,061st of 1,463 counties measured44
SchoolsTop 18% of 1,377 counties measured75
Growth1,273rd of 1,453 counties measured29
Housing affordability1,093rd of 1,462 counties measured67
ClimateTop 1% of 1,463 counties measured100
Physical resilience1,458th of 1,463 counties measured3
AccessTop 36% of 1,463 counties measured87
Economic stability1,443rd of 1,463 counties measured8
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable counties measured: unemployment is 9.1% and the Opportunity signal places Humacao Municipio in the bottom 27%.

Public schools test above most of the state: 31% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 18% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 26 units authorized over the past twelve months, 16% below the prior year.

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
50,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$27,038
Bottom 2% nationally
Density
1,120/sq mi
44.7 sq mi of land
Median age
47.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Humacao Municipio
Puerto Rico
Nearest major airport
SJU
25 mi · Luis Munoz Marin Intl
Median home value
$120,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 9.1% — higher than in all but 1% of the 1,467 measured US counties.

Employment grew 2.8% over the past year, to 16,799 employed residents.

28% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 70% of measured US counties.

Median household income of $27,038 is lower than in 98% of measured US counties.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$1,7702024 ACS 5-Year$27,038Bottom 2%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,0812024 ACS 5-Year$17,542Bottom 2%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year38.2%Bottom 2%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.5 min2024 ACS 5-Year30.5 minBottom 21%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year27.6%Top 30%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year86.5%96th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202616,799Bottom 25%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+4.7%Top 9%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+2.8%Top 5%of 1,467July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202618,48926th percentileof 1,467July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year59.6%Bottom 7%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.3%2024 ACS 5-Year0.2%53rd percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+2.1%Bottom 1%of 1,467July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20269.1%Bottom 1%of 1,467July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year5.3%20th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/082022/082023/082024/082025/082026/079.86.5
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 9.1% 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

202120222023202427k22k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $27,038 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 — San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons27,950$22,780
Security Guards22,420$21,840
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners21,530$21,930
Cashiers18,010$22,300
Fast Food and Counter Workers17,900$22,130
Customer Service Representatives15,940$26,520

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.

31% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 50% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.0 students for every full-time teacher across 15 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
17
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.0
across 15 of them
Math proficiency
30.8%
Top 36% in Puerto Rico
Reading proficiency
50.4%
Top 21% in Puerto Rico
The 12 largest of 17 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Superior Vocacional Manuel MediavillaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION60210.03%32%
Ana Roque De DupreyPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION46415.53%22%
Anita Otero HernandezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION45810.213%80%
Agapito Lopez FloresPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION35413.67%22%
Luz A. Cruz De SantanaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION30012.587%72%
Juan Ponce De Leon HumacaoPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION29912.514%62%
Carlos Rivera UfretPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2649.42%17%
Lidia Fiol ScaranoPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION25211.077%77%
Miguel Hernandez AgostoPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION24810.372%72%
Antonio Rosa GuzmanPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION23710.362%62%
Petra Mercado BougartPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION21413.412%57%
Candido BerriosPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2079.957%62%

86.8% 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 $865 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.72% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $663, some 17% above the $568 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $663 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $26,500 a year, about 98% of the median household income here of $27,038.

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 $568 a month.

A median home at $120,100 costs 3.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $31,071, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Rent as a share of income
28.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$663
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$568
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$120,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Humacao Municipio’s median household income of $27,038, 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 ±0.42024 ACS 5-Year3.9Bottom 13%of 3,2172024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year74.2%48th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±6492024 ACS 5-Year27,84872nd percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$572Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$868Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$663Top 1%of 1,423FY2026
Median gross rent ±$812024 ACS 5-Year$568Top 4%of 3,2152024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$4,0952024 ACS 5-Year$120,10017th percentileof 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1442024 ACS 5-Year$86518th percentileof 3,1722024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$2,9642024 ACS 5-Year$31,071Bottom 2%of 3,2182024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.12%2024 ACS 5-Year0.72%43rd percentileof 3,1262024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year28.3%Bottom 45%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±3902024 ACS 5-Year3,51691st percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year12.6%86th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year14.4%82nd percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±5822024 ACS 5-Year7,53287th 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

29/ 100
Ranks 1,273 of 1,453 published county profiles
Permitting has been falling for the last 3 years of 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.

Permit activity fell in each of the 3 calendar years through 2025.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 26 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US counties.

Units permitted
26
2025 calendar year
Per 1,000 residents
0.5
Bottom 8% nationally
Year over year
−16%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Housing units permitted per year

20222023202420255226
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2022 (−50%).

Weather & climate

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 70°F and January a low of 59°F.

50°70°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PICO DEL ESTE, 9.5 miles from this location.

Precipitation

MetricValueSource period
Average January low1991-2020 Normals59°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals70°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals121991-2020 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

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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 62% 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
LandslideHigh

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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Luis Munoz Marin Intl at 25 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year85.2%Bottom 38%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle25 miTop 35%of 1,463NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 35%of 1,463NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year13.8%Bottom 25%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU25 mi10,400 ft
MerceditaPSE52 mi8,002 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX71 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 Humacao Municipio, PR

ZIP areas

Only ZIP areas whose income or home value differ from their city’s by at least ten percent get a profile of their own, so this is a selection rather than every ZIP code in the county.