South · inland · ~46 mi from San Juan

Living in Adjuntas

Residents live in a small, mountainside municipality spread across 16 barrios and the town center, set inland in the Cordillera Central about two hours from San Juan.

How Adjuntas sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Adjuntas.

Housing & money

Median rent in Adjuntas runs 20% below the Puerto Rico median — 4th lowest of 78 municipios.

Median rent: $425/moPR median $534 · 4th lowest of 78
Median home value: $94,300PR median $115,700 · 8th lowest of 78
Median household income: $19,549/yrPR median $24,070 · 71st highest of 78
Income per person: $9,682PR median $14,811
Homes owner-occupied: 68%PR median 71.1%
Homes vacant: 24%PR median 20.3%
Below the poverty line: 61%PR median 44.1%
Typical home built: 1979median year

For scale: the U.S. median rent is $1,413 and household income $80,734; Puerto Rico's are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.

Work & getting around

The typical commute is 25 minutes, 2 minutes shorter than the island median.

Typical commute: 25 minPR median 27 min · 19th shortest of 78
Work from home: 5.4%PR median 4.5%
Commute by transit: 0.0%PR median 0.3%
Unemployment: 20.3%PR median 10.5%
Households with broadband: 81%PR median 80.6% · 40th highest of 78
To San Juan: ~46 minext door: Peñuelas, Utuado, Jayuya

81% of households have a broadband subscription (40th of 78).

People

Population: 17,960172.7 km²
Residents per km²: 104PR median 295 · 72nd densest of 78
Median age: 45.1PR median 44.9
Bachelor's degree or higher: 18%PR median 24.1% · 72nd highest of 78

Daily life

What is mapped in Adjuntas today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.

Schools: 2111.7 per 10k · PR 6.3
Supermarkets: 10.6 per 10k · PR 0.7
Parks: 21.1 per 10k · PR 4.1
Restaurants: 52.8 per 10k · PR 2.1
Bus stops: 00 per 10k · PR 0
Beaches: 0inland

Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) — what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Adjuntas.

Water, power & safety

Water. Adjuntas is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Adjuntas’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
Safety. 12.8 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — below most towns of the 78 municipios (2 homicides that year). Every town, with context
Hurricanes. Every municipio prepares the same way; the Puerto Rico version of the checklist starts from a grid and water system that take longer to come back. Prepare

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates, 2020–2024 ACS 5-Year Estimates (5-year estimates — small municipios carry wide margins of error); OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), mapped as of 2026-08-13; Puerto Rico Police Bureau, SAEC Type I, 2025 full year; AAA — Plan de Interrupciones Programadas. Figures refresh when each source publishes; nothing here is modelled or estimated by us.