North · inland · ~31 mi from San Juan
Living in Florida
Residents live in a small town of about 11,500 people on 15 square miles of karst hills, about 31 miles from San Juan and within its metro area.
How Florida sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Florida.
Housing and money
Median rent in Florida runs 29% above the median of the 78 towns (7th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $688/momedian town $534 · 7th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $111,000median town $115,700 · 29th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $22,332/yrmedian town $24,070 · 26th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $12,320median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 73%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 9%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 49%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1990median 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, 2 minutes shorter than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 25 minmedian town 27 min · 22nd shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 2.9%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 18.2%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 79%median town 80.6% · 36th lowest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~31 miNext door: Barceloneta, Ciales, Manatí and Arecibo
People
- Population
- 11,532Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 15.2 sq mi (39.4 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 759median town 763 · 38th least dense of 78
- Median age
- 41.4median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 22%median town 24.1% · 25th lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Florida today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 65.2 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 10.9 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 97.8 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 00 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 Florida.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Florida 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 Florida are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 11.3 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, among the lowest 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.