Central · inland · ~17 mi from San Juan
Living in Gurabo
Residents live in an inland town within the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo metro area, close to Caguas, Trujillo Alto, and Carolina, with a community spread across nine barrios and the town center.
How Gurabo sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Gurabo.
Housing and money
Median rent in Gurabo runs 27% above the median of the 78 towns (8th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $678/momedian town $534 · 8th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $158,500median town $115,700 · 6th highest of 78
- Median household income
- $42,216/yrmedian town $24,070 · 2nd highest of 78
- Income per person
- $25,845median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 77%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 12%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 29%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1992median 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 36 minutes, 9 minutes longer than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 36 minmedian town 27 min · 5th longest of 78
- Work from home
- 8.3%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 10.4%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 88%median town 80.6% · 9th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~17 miNext door: Juncos, Caguas, San Lorenzo, Trujillo Alto and Carolina
People
- Population
- 40,228Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 27.9 sq mi (72.2 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 1,443median town 763 · 12th densest of 78
- Median age
- 42.3median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 37%median town 24.1% · 5th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Gurabo today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 215.2 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 30.7 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 215.2 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 143.5 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 Gurabo.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Sectors of Gurabo 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 Gurabo are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 13.4 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, below most towns of the 78 towns (13 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.