West · coastal · ~75 mi from San Juan

Living in Rincón

Residents live in a beach-oriented coastal municipality organized into 9 barrios plus Rincón Pueblo, within the Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastián metro area, about 75 miles from San Juan.

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

Housing & money

Median rent in Rincón runs 13% above the Puerto Rico median — 62nd lowest of 78 municipios.

Median rent: $604/moPR median $534 · 62nd lowest of 78
Median home value: $154,700PR median $115,700 · 71st lowest of 78
Median household income: $24,447/yrPR median $24,070 · 33rd highest of 78
Income per person: $15,582PR median $14,811
Homes owner-occupied: 71%PR median 71.1%
Homes vacant: 38%PR median 20.3%
Below the poverty line: 46%PR median 44.1%
Typical home built: 1979median 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 23 minutes, 4 minutes shorter than the island median.

Typical commute: 23 minPR median 27 min · 11th shortest of 78
Work from home: 8.8%PR median 4.5%
Commute by transit: 2.4%PR median 0.3%
Unemployment: 7.8%PR median 10.5%
Households with broadband: 72%PR median 80.6% · 69th highest of 78
To San Juan: ~75 minext door: Aguada, Añasco, Aguadilla

72% of households have a broadband subscription (69th of 78).

People

Population: 15,37837 km²
Residents per km²: 416PR median 295 · 24th densest of 78
Median age: 50.1PR median 44.9
Bachelor's degree or higher: 23%PR median 24.1% · 44th highest of 78

Daily life

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

Schools: 53.3 per 10k · PR 6.3
Supermarkets: 21.3 per 10k · PR 0.7
Parks: 74.6 per 10k · PR 4.1
Restaurants: 3925.4 per 10k · PR 2.1
Bus stops: 00 per 10k · PR 0
Beaches: 6coastal municipio

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

Water, power & safety

Water. Rincón is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Rincón’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
Safety. 17.6 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — middle of the island of the 78 municipios (0 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.