East · coastal · ~15 mi from San Juan
Living in Loíza
Residents live in a coastal, culturally distinct outer municipality of the San Juan metro area, spread across 5 barrios with the town's Afro-Puerto Rican heritage shaping daily life.
How Loíza sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Loíza.
Housing & money
Median rent in Loíza runs 13% below the Puerto Rico median — 11th lowest of 78 municipios.
- Median rent
- $464/moPR median $534 · 11th lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $111,000PR median $115,700 · 29th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $24,272/yrPR median $24,070 · 36th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $13,835PR median $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 70%PR median 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 23%PR median 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 43%PR median 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1985median year
For scale: the U.S. median rent is $1,413 and household income $80,734; Puerto Rico's are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.
Work & getting around
The typical commute is 32 minutes, 5 minutes longer than the island median.
- Typical commute
- 32 minPR median 27 min · 68th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 4.4%PR median 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.6%PR median 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 20.2%PR median 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 86%PR median 80.6% · 11th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~15 minext door: Canóvanas, Río Grande, Carolina
86% of households have a broadband subscription (11th of 78).
People
- Population
- 22,76850.2 km²
- Residents per km²
- 454PR median 295 · 20th densest of 78
- Median age
- 44.1PR median 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 19%PR median 24.1% · 69th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Loíza today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 104.4 per 10k · PR 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 10.4 per 10k · PR 0.7
- Parks
- 83.5 per 10k · PR 4.1
- Restaurants
- 94 per 10k · PR 2.1
- Bus stops
- 3917.1 per 10k · PR 0
- Beaches
- 4coastal municipio
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) — what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Loíza.
Water, power & safety
- Water. Sectors of Loíza are on AAA's Carraízo rationing calendar (zone 1) — interruptions currently paused. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Loíza’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 40 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — among the highest of the 78 municipios (9 homicides that year). Every town, with context
- Hurricanes. Every municipio 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 ACS 5-Year Estimates (5-year estimates — small municipios carry wide margins of error); OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), mapped as of 2026-08-13; Puerto Rico Police Bureau, SAEC Type I, 2025 full year; AAA — Plan de Interrupciones Programadas. Figures refresh when each source publishes; nothing here is modelled or estimated by us.
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