State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Puerto Rico
- Median monthly gross rent
- $578 ± $6 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 50.8% ± 0.8 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 26.9% ± 0.7 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $23,120. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | $578 ± $6 | 50.8% | 26.9% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Puerto Rico
- Adjuntas Municipio$425 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Aguada Municipio$475 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Aguadilla Municipio$509 median gross rent · 44.1% rent burden
- Aguas Buenas Municipio$468 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Aibonito Municipio$481 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Añasco Municipio$576 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Arecibo Municipio$531 median gross rent · 40.2% rent burden
- Arroyo Municipio$472 median gross rent · 51.5% rent burden
- Barceloneta Municipio$582 median gross rent · 63.5% rent burden
- Barranquitas Municipio$505 median gross rent · 38.3% rent burden
- Bayamón Municipio$703 median gross rent · 56.5% rent burden
- Cabo Rojo Municipio$590 median gross rent · 55.1% rent burden
- Caguas Municipio$659 median gross rent · 55.2% rent burden
- Camuy Municipio$611 median gross rent · 48.3% rent burden
- Canóvanas Municipio$568 median gross rent · 52.1% rent burden
- Carolina Municipio$677 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
- Cataño Municipio$564 median gross rent · 42.2% rent burden
- Cayey Municipio$540 median gross rent · 40.6% rent burden
- Ceiba Municipio$538 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Ciales Municipio$431 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Cidra Municipio$577 median gross rent · 34.7% rent burden
- Coamo Municipio$521 median gross rent · 52.6% rent burden
- Comerío Municipio$512 median gross rent · 55.9% rent burden
- Corozal Municipio$497 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Dorado Municipio$715 median gross rent · 40.2% rent burden
- Fajardo Municipio$625 median gross rent · 55.5% rent burden
- Guánica Municipio$349 median gross rent · 55.5% rent burden
- Guayama Municipio$436 median gross rent · 42.2% rent burden
- Guayanilla Municipio$454 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Guaynabo Municipio$901 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Gurabo Municipio$678 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
- Hatillo Municipio$595 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Hormigueros Municipio$559 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Humacao Municipio$568 median gross rent · 45% rent burden
- Isabela Municipio$582 median gross rent · 51.6% rent burden
- Jayuya Municipio$456 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Juana Díaz Municipio$559 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Juncos Municipio$577 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Lajas Municipio$479 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Lares Municipio$505 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Las Marías Municipio$412 median gross rent · 55.6% rent burden
- Las Piedras Municipio$565 median gross rent · 54.7% rent burden
- Loíza Municipio$464 median gross rent · 53.5% rent burden
- Luquillo Municipio$504 median gross rent · 52.4% rent burden
- Manatí Municipio$538 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Maunabo Municipio$549 median gross rent · 60.7% rent burden
- Mayagüez Municipio$484 median gross rent · 60.3% rent burden
- Moca Municipio$512 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
- Morovis Municipio$618 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Naguabo Municipio$528 median gross rent · 56.6% rent burden
- Naranjito Municipio$488 median gross rent · 44.9% rent burden
- Orocovis Municipio$499 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Patillas Municipio$543 median gross rent · 58.4% rent burden
- Peñuelas Municipio$489 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Ponce Municipio$536 median gross rent · 55.3% rent burden
- Quebradillas Municipio$521 median gross rent · 51.2% rent burden
- Rincón Municipio$604 median gross rent · 50.8% rent burden
- Río Grande Municipio$585 median gross rent · 60.6% rent burden
- Sabana Grande Municipio$463 median gross rent · 51.5% rent burden
- Salinas Municipio$530 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- San Germán Municipio$481 median gross rent · 52.1% rent burden
- San Juan Municipio$611 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- San Lorenzo Municipio$579 median gross rent · 54.1% rent burden
- San Sebastián Municipio$508 median gross rent · 53.6% rent burden
- Santa Isabel Municipio$489 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
- Toa Alta Municipio$690 median gross rent · 61% rent burden
- Toa Baja Municipio$713 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Trujillo Alto Municipio$694 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
- Utuado Municipio$476 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Vega Alta Municipio$667 median gross rent · 53.8% rent burden
- Vega Baja Municipio$650 median gross rent · 49.4% rent burden
- Vieques Municipio$430 median gross rent · 36% rent burden
- Villalba Municipio$517 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Yabucoa Municipio$489 median gross rent · 58% rent burden
- Yauco Municipio$551 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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