East · inland · ~15 mi from San Juan
Living in Canóvanas
Residents live in an inland town within the San Juan metropolitan area, close enough to the capital for commuting while being surrounded by neighboring towns like Loíza, Carolina, and Río Grande.
How Canóvanas sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Canóvanas.
Housing and money
Median rent in Canóvanas runs 6% above the median of the 78 towns (28th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $568/momedian town $534 · 28th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $118,600median town $115,700 · 35th highest of 78
- Median household income
- $29,642/yrmedian town $24,070 · 12th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $18,596median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 73%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 15%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 33%median town 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, island-wide, are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.
Work and getting around
The typical commute is 35 minutes, 7 minutes longer than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 35 minmedian town 27 min · 6th longest of 78
- Work from home
- 6.9%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.1%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 14.5%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 91%median town 80.6% · 2nd highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~15 miNext door: Carolina, Loíza, Río Grande, Juncos and Las Piedras
People
- Population
- 41,816Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 32.9 sq mi (85.1 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 1,272median town 763 · 15th densest of 78
- Median age
- 43.3median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 28%median town 24.1% · 23rd highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Canóvanas today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 225.3 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 41 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 81.9 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 122.9 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 Canóvanas.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Sectors of Canóvanas are on AAA's Carraízo rationing calendar (zones 1 and 2), with interruptions currently paused. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by sector; the live tracker shows how many sectors in Canóvanas are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 19.4 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, above most towns of the 78 towns (6 homicides 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.