Humacao, Puerto Rico

Area Profile

15,787 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Humacao, in Humacao Municipio.

44out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 8% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 9 sources
Opportunity3,167th of 4,199 cities measured44
Schools2,808th of 4,162 cities measured36
Growth3,287th of 4,224 cities measured35
Housing affordability2,300th of 4,218 cities measured65
ClimateTop 8% of 4,225 cities measured89
Physical resilience4,219th of 4,226 cities measured3
Access2,692nd of 4,226 cities measured88
Economic stability4,216th of 4,226 cities measured9
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 9.1% and the Opportunity signal places Humacao in the bottom 25%. The unemployment rate is published for Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, rather than for Humacao alone.

In the public schools here, 28% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 10.8 students for every teacher.

Residential permitting has slowed: 26 units authorized over the past twelve months, 16% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, rather than for Humacao alone.

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
15,787
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$22,172
Bottom 1% nationally
Density
3,204/sq mi
4.9 sq mi of land
Median age
50.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Puerto Rico
Nearest major airport
SJU
23 mi · Luis Munoz Marin Intl
Median home value
$117,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, is 9.1% — higher than in all but 1% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, grew 2.8% over the past year, to 16,799 employed residents.

Median household income of $22,172 is lower than in 99% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$2,6552024 ACS 5-Year$22,172Bottom 1%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,5092024 ACS 5-Year$17,300Bottom 5%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year42.7%Bottom 4%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.3 minBottom 41%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year29.3%Top 32%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year90.4%86th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentHumacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 202616,799Bottom 17%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Humacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+4.7%Top 6%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Humacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+2.8%Top 3%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceHumacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 202618,48919th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year55.4%Bottom 8%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)Humacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 2026+2.1%Bottom 1%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateHumacao Municipio, PR’s figureJuly 20269.1%Bottom 1%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year1.7%21st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202422k18k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $22,172 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 Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains this city.

28% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 37% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 10.8 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
10.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
28.3%
Bottom 32% in Puerto Rico
Reading proficiency
37.5%
Bottom 7% in Puerto Rico
All 6 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Ana Roque De DupreyPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION46415.53%22%
Carlos Rivera UfretPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2649.42%17%
Candido BerriosPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION2079.957%62%
Carmen Pilar SantosPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION19611.537%32%
Rufino VigoPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION1947.262%57%
Braulio Ayala PerezPUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION10810.872%82%

84.4% 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 $684 a year in real estate taxes.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $663, some 39% above the $478 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 120% of the median household income here of $22,172.

The typical renter household here spends 29% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $478 a month.

A median home at $117,500 costs 3.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $30,472, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Rent as a share of income
29.1%
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
$478
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$117,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Humacao’s median household income of $22,172, 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-Year3.9Bottom 19%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year63.4%26th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5162024 ACS 5-Year8,60793rd 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 ±$522024 ACS 5-Year$478Top 3%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,5232024 ACS 5-Year$117,50027th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$4092024 ACS 5-Year$68412th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$8,1842024 ACS 5-Year$30,472Bottom 2%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year29.1%Bottom 45%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1372024 ACS 5-Year26295th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year3.0%75th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year16.0%81st percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3112024 ACS 5-Year1,63697th 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

35/ 100
Ranks 3,287 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 26 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, rather than for Humacao alone.

At 0.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains Humacao, rather than for Humacao alone.

Units permitted
26
2025 calendar year
Per 1,000 residents
0.5
Bottom 16% nationally
Year over year
−16%
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 Humacao, PR is not one. This is the figure for Humacao Municipio, PR, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

9 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 65°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 67.5 inches.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station JUNCOS 1 SE, 7.9 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND8.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals67.5"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals65°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals91991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals7°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). 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Luis Munoz Marin Intl at 23 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year83.6%Bottom 27%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle23 miBottom 38%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year15.1%Bottom 21%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU23 mi10,400 ft
MerceditaPSE50 mi8,002 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX74 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 Humacao
BayamónBayamón Municipio166,92345Bayamón vs Humacao
CarolinaCarolina Municipio138,63350Carolina vs Humacao
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—
CandelariaToa Baja Municipio14,86860
CayeyCayey Municipio14,65553

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 Humacao

1 ZIP area

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

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
0079145,455$27,034$122,00045