Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

Area Profile

43,611 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Trujillo Alto, in Trujillo Alto Municipio.

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How this area ranks
Housing affordabilityTop 41% of 4,223 published cities86
ClimateTop 18% of 4,223 published cities80
Physical resilience4067th of 4,182 published cities8
AccessTop 29% of 4,226 published cities97
Economic stability3971st of 4,226 published cities29
The quick read

Rent takes 20% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.9 times that income.

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

A major airport is 6 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
43,611
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$42,795
Bottom 13% nationally
Density
5,894/sq mi
7.4 sq mi of land
Median age
43.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Trujillo Alto Municipio
Puerto Rico
Metro area
Nearest major airport
SJU
6 mi · Luis Munoz Marin Intl
Median home value
$166,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Median household income of $42,795 is below 87% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,432$42,795Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,726$24,912Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate26.0%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute32.7 minTop 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher44.2%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation55.4%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202443k36k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $42,795 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 $704 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.9 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
19.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$704
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$166,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.89Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate75.0%Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±68620,562Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$158$704Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$3,717$166,400Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.7%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate11.1%Top 46%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

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 89°F and January a low of 67°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 73.0 inches.

60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TRUJILLO ALTO 2 SSW, 2.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation73.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low67°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing6°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 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

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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 6 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Luis Munoz Marin IntlSJU6 mi10,400 ft
MerceditaPSE44 mi8,002 ft
Henry E RohlsenSTX92 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)
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.

ZIP codes in Trujillo Alto

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
0097660,620$39,901