Central · inland · ~25 mi from San Juan
Living in Las Piedras
Residents live in an inland eastern town of about 35,000 people, about 25 miles from San Juan and within its metro area.
How Las Piedras sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Las Piedras.
Housing and money
Median rent in Las Piedras runs 6% above the median of the 78 towns (29th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $565/momedian town $534 · 29th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $127,500median town $115,700 · 23rd highest of 78
- Median household income
- $25,232/yrmedian town $24,070 · 28th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $16,474median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 74%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 17%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 39%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1991median 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 29 minutes, 2 minutes longer than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 29 minmedian town 27 min · 28th longest of 78
- Work from home
- 0.5%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 6.5%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 90%median town 80.6% · 5th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~25 miNext door: Humacao, Juncos, San Lorenzo, Yabucoa, Naguabo, Canóvanas and Río Grande
People
- Population
- 34,951Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 33.9 sq mi (87.7 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 1,033median town 763 · 28th densest of 78
- Median age
- 43.3median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 29%median town 24.1% · 14th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Las Piedras today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 216 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 10.3 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 144 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 30.9 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 Las Piedras.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Las Piedras 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 Las Piedras are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 23.5 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, above most towns of the 78 towns (4 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.