West · coastal · ~55 mi from San Juan
Living in Quebradillas
Residents live in a coastal town of about 23,638 people on Puerto Rico's north shore, formally linked to the San Juan metropolitan area despite its western location.
How Quebradillas sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Quebradillas.
Housing & money
Median rent in Quebradillas runs 2% below the Puerto Rico median — 34th lowest of 78 municipios.
- Median rent
- $521/moPR median $534 · 34th lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $112,500PR median $115,700 · 33rd lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $24,640/yrPR median $24,070 · 31st highest of 78
- Income per person
- $13,202PR median $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 71%PR median 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 24%PR median 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 45%PR median 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1984median 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 29 minutes, 1 minute longer than the island median.
- Typical commute
- 29 minPR median 27 min · 49th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 10.5%PR median 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 1.2%PR median 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 8.1%PR median 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 73%PR median 80.6% · 68th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~55 minext door: Isabela, Camuy, Hatillo
73% of households have a broadband subscription (68th of 78).
People
- Population
- 23,40958.7 km²
- Residents per km²
- 399PR median 295 · 27th densest of 78
- Median age
- 45.1PR median 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 20%PR median 24.1% · 64th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Quebradillas today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 83.4 per 10k · PR 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 20.9 per 10k · PR 0.7
- Parks
- 52.1 per 10k · PR 4.1
- Restaurants
- 20.9 per 10k · PR 2.1
- Bus stops
- 00 per 10k · PR 0
- Beaches
- 0coastal municipio
Counts from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) — what volunteers have mapped, not an official register. Places our guide recommends in Quebradillas.
Water, power & safety
- Water. Quebradillas is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Quebradillas’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 13.2 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — below most towns of the 78 municipios (1 homicide 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.
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