North · coastal · ~48 mi from San Juan
Living in Camuy
Residents live in a coastal municipality of about 32,827 people, spread across 12 barrios and the town center, within the North region near neighboring towns like Hatillo and Quebradillas.
How Camuy sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Camuy.
Housing & money
Median rent in Camuy runs 15% above the Puerto Rico median — 63rd lowest of 78 municipios.
- Median rent
- $611/moPR median $534 · 63rd lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $109,600PR median $115,700 · 27th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $27,411/yrPR median $24,070 · 18th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $15,830PR median $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 76%PR median 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 16%PR median 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 38%PR median 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1986median 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 28 minutes, 1 minute longer than the island median.
- Typical commute
- 28 minPR median 27 min · 46th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 5.5%PR median 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.1%PR median 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 3.0%PR median 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 76%PR median 80.6% · 53rd highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~48 minext door: Hatillo, Quebradillas, Arecibo
76% of households have a broadband subscription (53rd of 78).
People
- Population
- 32,734120.1 km²
- Residents per km²
- 273PR median 295 · 44th densest of 78
- Median age
- 45.8PR median 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 23%PR median 24.1% · 50th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Camuy today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 92.7 per 10k · PR 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 00 per 10k · PR 0.7
- Parks
- 113.4 per 10k · PR 4.1
- Restaurants
- 41.2 per 10k · PR 2.1
- Bus stops
- 00 per 10k · PR 0
- Beaches
- 0coastal municipio
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) — what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Camuy.
Water, power & safety
- Water. Camuy is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Camuy’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 13.1 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.
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