Central · inland · ~25 mi from San Juan
Living in Orocovis
Residents live in a rural, inland mountain community that, despite its distance of about 25 miles from San Juan, is formally part of the San Juan metropolitan area.
How Orocovis sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 towns: every figure against the median town, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Orocovis.
Housing and money
Median rent in Orocovis runs 6% below the median of the 78 towns (25th lowest of 78 towns).
- Median rent
- $499/momedian town $534 · 25th lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $100,500median town $115,700 · 16th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $20,302/yrmedian town $24,070 · 13th lowest of 78
- Income per person
- $11,696median town $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 70%median town 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 24%median town 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 50%median town 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1982median 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 39 minutes, 12 minutes longer than the median of the 78 towns.
- Typical commute
- 39 minmedian town 27 min · longest of 78
- Work from home
- 3.0%median town 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 3.7%median town 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 10.7%median town 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 77%median town 80.6% · 27th lowest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~25 miNext door: Barranquitas, Morovis, Corozal, Ciales, Villalba, Coamo, Jayuya and Juana Díaz
People
- Population
- 21,309Census estimate, 2020–2024 · 63.6 sq mi (164.8 km²)
- Residents per sq mi
- 334median town 763 · 10th least dense of 78
- Median age
- 42.9median town 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 20%median town 24.1% · 13th lowest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Orocovis today: counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 167.5 per 10k · median town 6.3
- Supermarkets
- —median town 0.7
- Parks
- 104.7 per 10k · median town 4.3
- Restaurants
- 20.9 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 Orocovis.
Water, power and safety
- Water. Orocovis 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 Orocovis are out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 20.6 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025, above most towns 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.