Adjuntas is an inland municipio of 17,960 people in Puerto Rico’s South region. Median rent runs $425 a month, 20% below the island median.
Adjuntas is a small inland municipio in the South region, home to about 17,960 people across 172.7 square kilometers, roughly 46 miles from San Juan. Housing here runs well below island norms: median rent of $425 is 20% under the Puerto Rico median, and the typical home value of $94,300 sits 18% below the statewide figure. Incomes are thin to match, with median household income of $19,549 about 19% under the island median, and most residents work locally rather than remotely, with a 25-minute average commute and just 5.4% working from home.
The trade-offs are steep on the economic side: unemployment of 20.3% is nearly double the island median, and 60.9% of residents live below the poverty line, far above the statewide figure. Broadband access is close to typical at 80.5% of households, and restaurants are relatively plentiful for the population at 2.8 per 10,000 residents, but parks are scarce and there’s only one supermarket in town. Housing stock is older, with a median build year of 1979, and nearly a quarter of units sit vacant, above the island norm.
By the numbers
| Measure | Adjuntas | Puerto Rico median (Median across the 78 municipios) | Rank (Rank among the 78 municipios, with the direction that reads as better) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent (monthly) | $425 | $534 | 4th lowest of 78 |
| Median home value | $94,300 | $115,700 | 8th lowest of 78 |
| Median household income | $19,549 | $24,070 | 8th lowest of 78 |
| Residents below the poverty line | 60.9% | 44.1% | 2nd highest of 78 |
| Owner-occupied homes | 67.7% | 71.1% | 22nd lowest of 78 |
| Vacant housing units | 23.5% | 20.3% | 28th highest of 78 |
| Typical commute | 25 min | 27.4 min | 19th lowest of 78 |
| Working from home | 5.4% | 4.5% | 29th highest of 78 |
| Households with broadband | 80.5% | 80.6% | 39th lowest of 78 |
| Unemployment | 20.3% | 10.5% | 4th highest of 78 |
| Restaurants per 10,000 residents | 2.8 | 2.1 | 35th highest of 78 |
Ranks count only the municipios that have the figure, from the nearer end: “lowest” or “highest” says which.
Around it
| Nearby municipio | Monthly rent |
|---|---|
| Peñuelas | $489 ($64 more) |
| Utuado | $476 ($51 more) |
| Jayuya | $456 ($31 more) |
| Guayanilla | $454 ($29 more) |
Its patron-saint festival honors Saint Joachim & Saint Anne around August 21.
Every figure above, with its source and vintage, is on the Living in Adjuntas page; the town’s guide, news and events are on its town page, and the same metrics rank all 78 municipios on the best-of lists.
This is the first Town of the Week.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates (2020–2024), OpenStreetMap contributors (mapped as of Aug 13, 2026), Puerto Rico Police Bureau Type I statistics, AAA’s published rationing plan. ACS estimates carry margins of error that widen for small municipios and lag by years; OpenStreetMap counts depend on how fully the town is mapped; ranks are among the 78 municipios.