San Germán Municipio, PR

County Profile

31,305 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for San Germán Municipio, PR.

Several figures AreaProfile publishes are measured by county and nowhere finer — death rates by intent among them. On this page those describe the geography they are printed on, which is not true of the city and ZIP pages that inherit them.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity906th of 1,255 counties44
Housing affordability1249th of 1,255 counties41
ClimateTop 1% of 1,254 counties100
Physical resilience1230th of 1,255 counties8
Access652nd of 1,255 counties81
Economic stability1254th of 1,255 counties4
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published profiles: unemployment is 8.9% and the Opportunity signal places San Germán Municipio in the bottom 28%.

Housing costs more relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 32% of median household income and the median home is 6.1 times it.

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

At a glance

Population
31,305
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$18,317
Bottom 1% nationally
Density
574/sq mi
54.5 sq mi of land
Median age
47.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
San Germán Municipio
Puerto Rico
Metro area
Nearest major airport
PSE
32 mi · Mercedita
Median home value
$111,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 8.9% is lower than 1% of the 1,255 measured US locations.

Employment grew 2.0% over the past year, to 7,805 employed residents.

Median household income of $18,317 is below 100% of measured US locations.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$1,584$18,317Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$932$12,961Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate49.6%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.9 minTop 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher26.5%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment7,805Bottom 1%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)8.0%Top 1%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.0%Top 7%June 2026
Labor force8,565Bottom 2%June 2026
Labor force participation35.0%Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 10%June 2026
Unemployment rate8.9%Top 1%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/072022/042023/012023/102024/072025/042026/012026/06147.3
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 8.9% in June 2026.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202418k16k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $18,317 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 $481 takes 32% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.1 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
31.5%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$481
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$111,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income6.08Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate65.0%Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±50316,255Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$36$481Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,343$111,400Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income31.5%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate27.0%Top 13%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

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 80°F and January a low of 62°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 92.9 inches.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MARICAO 2 SSW, 4.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND13.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation92.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low62°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high80°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months121991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing5°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

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 National Risk Index county record. 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 32 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
MerceditaPSE32 mi8,002 ft
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU72 mi10,400 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX150 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)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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)

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.

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