West · inland · ~66 mi from San Juan

Living in Moca

Residents live in an inland municipality of about 37,460 people, organized into 12 barrios and Moca Pueblo, with close proximity to neighboring towns like Aguadilla, Aguada, and San Sebastián within the same metropolitan area.

How Moca sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Moca.

Housing & money

Median rent in Moca runs 4% below the Puerto Rico median — 31st lowest of 78 municipios.

Median rent: $512/moPR median $534 · 31st lowest of 78
Median home value: $132,100PR median $115,700 · 58th lowest of 78
Median household income: $23,586/yrPR median $24,070 · 43rd highest of 78
Income per person: $14,548PR median $14,811
Homes owner-occupied: 63%PR median 71.1%
Homes vacant: 21%PR median 20.3%
Below the poverty line: 46%PR median 44.1%
Typical home built: 1987median 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 27 minutes, the island median.

Typical commute: 27 minPR median 27 min · 37th shortest of 78
Work from home: 8.0%PR median 4.5%
Commute by transit: 0.3%PR median 0.3%
Unemployment: 17.7%PR median 10.5%
Households with broadband: 86%PR median 80.6% · 13th highest of 78
To San Juan: ~66 minext door: Aguadilla, Aguada, Añasco

86% of households have a broadband subscription (13th of 78).

People

Population: 37,424130.4 km²
Residents per km²: 287PR median 295 · 42nd densest of 78
Median age: 43.4PR median 44.9
Bachelor's degree or higher: 25%PR median 24.1% · 36th highest of 78

Daily life

What is mapped in Moca today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.

Schools: 133.5 per 10k · PR 6.3
Supermarkets: 20.5 per 10k · PR 0.7
Parks: 92.4 per 10k · PR 4.1
Restaurants: 30.8 per 10k · PR 2.1
Bus stops: 00 per 10k · PR 0
Beaches: 0inland

Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) — what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Moca.

Water, power & safety

Water. Moca is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Moca’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
Safety. 10.4 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — among the lowest of the 78 municipios (3 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.