West · inland · ~61 mi from San Juan
Living in Maricao
Residents live in one of Puerto Rico's least populous towns, spread across a hilly area organized into seven barrios.
How Maricao sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Maricao.
Housing and money
Median rent in Maricao runs 23% below the median of the 78 towns (3rd lowest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $413/momedian town $534 · 3rd lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $115,700median town $115,700 · 39th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $21,302/yrmedian town $24,070 · 17th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $10,934median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 79%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 31%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 53%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1980median 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 22 minutes, 5 minutes shorter than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 22 minmedian town 27 min · 9th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 2.1%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 0.0%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 39%median town 80.6% · 2nd lowest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~61 miNext door: Las Marías, Sabana Grande, San Germán, Lares, Mayagüez and Yauco
People
- Population
- 4,988Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 36.6 sq mi (94.9 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 137median town 763 · 2nd least dense of 78
- Median age
- 47.7median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 13%median town 24.1% · 2nd lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Maricao today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 510 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 00 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 510 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 Maricao.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Maricao 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 Maricao are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 18 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, middle of the island of the 78 towns (0 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.