West · inland · ~66 mi from San Juan
Living in Moca
Residents live in an inland town of 37,424 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 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Moca.
Housing and money
Median rent in Moca runs 4% below the median of the 78 towns (31st lowest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $512/momedian town $534 · 31st lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $132,100median town $115,700 · 21st highest of 78
- Median household income
- $23,586/yrmedian town $24,070 · 36th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $14,548median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 63%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 21%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 46%median town 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, island-wide, are $578 and $26,297. Full cost-of-living comparison.
Work and getting around
The typical commute is 27 minutes, the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 27 minmedian town 27 min · 37th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 8.0%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.3%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 17.7%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 86%median town 80.6% · 13th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~66 miNext door: Aguadilla, Aguada, Añasco, San Sebastián and Isabela
People
- Population
- 37,424Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 50.3 sq mi (130.4 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 743median town 763 · 37th least dense of 78
- Median age
- 43.4median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 25%median town 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 · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 20.5 per 10k · median town 0.7
- Parks
- 92.4 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 30.8 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 Moca.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Moca 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 Moca are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 10.4 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, among the lowest 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.