South · coastal · ~34 mi from San Juan
Living in Maunabo
Residents live in a coastal valley town of modest size, organized across eight barrios and the town center, within commuting reach of the greater San Juan metropolitan area.
How Maunabo sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Maunabo.
Housing and money
Median rent in Maunabo runs 3% above the median of the 78 towns (34th highest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $549/momedian town $534 · 34th highest of 78
- Median home value
- $99,900median town $115,700 · 12th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $18,045/yrmedian town $24,070 · 4th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $11,302median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 74%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 20%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 55%median town 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, island-wide, are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.
Work and getting around
The typical commute is 30 minutes, 3 minutes longer than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 30 minmedian town 27 min · 21st longest of 78
- Work from home
- 0.0%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 1.0%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 12.1%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 73%median town 80.6% · 17th lowest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~34 miNext door: Yabucoa and Patillas
People
- Population
- 10,399Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 21.2 sq mi (54.8 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 492median town 763 · 21st least dense of 78
- Median age
- 48.8median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 14%median town 24.1% · 3rd lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Maunabo today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 87.7 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 00 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 65.8 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 21.9 per 10k · median town 2.4
- Beaches
- 3coastal town
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Maunabo.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Maunabo 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 Maunabo are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 29.8 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, among the highest of the 78 towns (3 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.