Dorado, Puerto Rico

Area Profile

12,425 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Dorado, in Dorado Municipio.

55out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 37% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 9 sources
Opportunity2,449th of 4,199 cities measured52
Schools3,304th of 4,162 cities measured27
GrowthTop 26% of 4,224 cities measured62
Housing affordabilityTop 25% of 4,218 cities measured75
ClimateTop 4% of 4,225 cities measured96
Physical resilience3,315th of 4,226 cities measured27
Access2,565th of 4,226 cities measured90
Economic stability4,095th of 4,226 cities measured21
The quick read

Unemployment is 6.2% and median household income $46,519, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains Dorado, rather than for Dorado alone.

In the public schools here, 21% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 9.8 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 23% of renter income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.3 times what its owners earn.

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At a glance

Population
12,425
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$46,519
Bottom 18% nationally
Density
3,931/sq mi
3.2 sq mi of land
Median age
43.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Puerto Rico
Nearest major airport
SJU
18 mi · Luis Munoz Marin Intl
Median home value
$265,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains Dorado, is 6.2% — higher than in all but 6% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains Dorado, grew 3.0% over the past year, to 13,742 employed residents.

44% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $46,519 is lower than in 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,7452024 ACS 5-Year$46,519Bottom 18%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,8282024 ACS 5-Year$40,882Top 31%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year22.4%Bottom 19%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year40.4 minBottom 7%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year44.4%Top 15%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year79.4%58th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentDorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 202613,742Bottom 10%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Dorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+7.6%Top 2%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Dorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+3.0%Top 2%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceDorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 202614,64411th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year70.2%Bottom 27%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSan Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$39,970Bottom 1%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageSan Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$29,440Bottom 1%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Dorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+1.0%Bottom 3%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateDorado Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 20266.2%Bottom 6%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year12.0%68th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202447k37k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $46,519 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains this city.

21% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 38% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 9.8 students for every full-time teacher across 6 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
9.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
20.5%
Bottom 7% in Puerto Rico
Reading proficiency
38.0%
Bottom 11% in Puerto Rico
All 6 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Jose Santos AlegriaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION71413.23%32%
Elemental Ecologica Jose De DiegoPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION48910.225%44%
Cristobal Santana MelecioPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION30110.032%42%
Jacinto Lopez MartinezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2658.032%36%
Luisa M. ValderramaPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION1996.957%52%
Ricardo Arroyo LaracuentePUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION1867.24%27%

87.7% 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 $1,366 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.51% 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, below the $794 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 57% of the median household income here of $46,519.

The typical renter household here spends 23% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $794 a month.

A median home at $265,300 costs 4.3 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $61,696, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Rent as a share of income
22.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$663
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$794
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$265,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Dorado’s median household income of $46,519, 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 ±12024 ACS 5-Year4.3Bottom 14%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year72.0%42nd percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4762024 ACS 5-Year6,76891st percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$572Top 1%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$868Top 1%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$663Top 1%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$942024 ACS 5-Year$794Top 28%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$44,0672024 ACS 5-Year$265,30067th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2842024 ACS 5-Year$1,36637th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$14,0282024 ACS 5-Year$61,696Bottom 26%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.14%2024 ACS 5-Year0.51%12th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year22.5%Top 22%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±2292024 ACS 5-Year93598th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year13.8%90th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year16.5%82nd percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3222024 ACS 5-Year2,05398th percentileof 32,3302024 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

62/ 100
Top 26% of 4,224 published city profiles

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 99 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains Dorado, rather than for Dorado alone.

At 2.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains Dorado, rather than for Dorado alone.

Units permitted
99
2025 calendar year
Per 1,000 residents
2.8
Top 48% nationally
Year over year
+22%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Dorado, PR is not one. This is the figure for Dorado Municipio, PR, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

11 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 67°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 65.9 inches.

60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DORADO 2 WNW, 2.3 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals65.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals67°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals111991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals8°F1991-2020 Normals

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

Physical risk

27 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, tsunami and earthquake, with hurricane alone responsible for 38% of it. Tsunami is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

EarthquakeModerate
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). 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

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. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way there is no figure to show. 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 Luis Munoz Marin Intl at 18 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year78.7%Bottom 17%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle18 miTop 50%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year20.1%Bottom 13%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU18 mi10,400 ft
MerceditaPSE37 mi8,002 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX110 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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Other cities in San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
San JuanSan Juan Municipio317,99551San Juan vs Dorado
BayamónBayamón Municipio166,92345Bayamón vs Dorado
CarolinaCarolina Municipio138,63350Carolina vs Dorado
CaguasCaguas Municipio72,92247
GuaynaboGuaynabo Municipio70,59955
Trujillo AltoTrujillo Alto Municipio43,61160
Mansión del MarToa Baja Municipio25,51058
FajardoFajardo Municipio24,26951
Vega BajaVega Baja Municipio22,75651
CatañoCataño Municipio22,467—
HumacaoHumacao Municipio15,78744
CandelariaToa Baja Municipio14,86860

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
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.

ZIP codes in Dorado

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Dorado with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
0064635,998$36,265$169,50054