Central · inland · ~25 mi from San Juan
Living in Aibonito
Residents live in a mountain town that, despite its inland, elevated setting, is formally part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo metropolitan area.
How Aibonito sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Aibonito.
Housing and money
Median rent in Aibonito runs 10% below the median of the 78 towns (17th lowest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $481/momedian town $534 · 17th lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $124,100median town $115,700 · 26th highest of 78
- Median household income
- $21,744/yrmedian town $24,070 · 20th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $14,094median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 75%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 11%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 47%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1981median year
For scale: the U.S. median rent is $1,413 and household income $80,734; Puerto Rico's, island-wide, are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.
Work and getting around
The typical commute is 23 minutes, 4 minutes shorter than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 23 minmedian town 27 min · 11th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 4.0%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 6.8%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 73%median town 80.6% · 15th lowest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~25 miNext door: Barranquitas, Cayey, Coamo, Cidra and Salinas
People
- Population
- 24,636Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 31.3 sq mi (81.1 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 787median town 763 · 36th densest of 78
- Median age
- 47.8median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 24%median town 24.1% · 37th lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Aibonito today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 176.9 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- —median town 0.7
- Parks
- 104.1 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 41.6 per 10k · median town 2.4
- Beaches
- 0inland
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Aibonito.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Aibonito is not on an AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by sector; the live tracker shows how many sectors in Aibonito are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 13 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, below most towns of the 78 towns (1 homicide that year). Every town, with context
- Hurricanes. Every town 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 (small towns carry wide margins of error); OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), mapped as of Oct 4, 2026; Puerto Rico Police Bureau, SAEC Type I, 2025 full year; AAA: Plan de Interrupciones Programadas.
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