East · coastal · ~33 mi from San Juan
Living in Ceiba
Residents live in a small coastal town linked to the Fajardo metropolitan area, with a compact population spread across several barrios.
How Ceiba sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Ceiba.
Housing and money
Median rent in Ceiba runs 1% above the median of the 78 towns (38th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $538/momedian town $534 · 38th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $113,700median town $115,700 · 35th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $25,454/yrmedian town $24,070 · 27th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $16,091median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 76%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 41%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 40%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1988median 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 25 minutes, 3 minutes shorter than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 25 minmedian town 27 min · 17th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 3.3%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 1.5%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 9.5%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 84%median town 80.6% · 23rd highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~33 miNext door: Fajardo, Naguabo and Río Grande
People
- Population
- 10,995Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 29 sq mi (75.2 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 378median town 763 · 13th least dense of 78
- Median age
- 46.9median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 23%median town 24.1% · 30th lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Ceiba today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 76.4 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 00 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 1210.9 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 21.8 per 10k · median town 2.4
- Beaches
- 3coastal town
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Ceiba.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Ceiba 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 Ceiba are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 19.1 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, middle of the island of the 78 towns (2 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.