North · inland · ~11 mi from San Juan
Living in Toa Alta
Residents live in an inland municipality close to San Juan and within its metropolitan area, offering a mix of small-town barrio life with proximity to the capital region.
How Toa Alta sits among Puerto Rico’s 78 municipios — every figure against the island median, with its source. Visiting instead? Things to do in Toa Alta.
Housing & money
Median rent in Toa Alta runs 29% above the Puerto Rico median — 73rd lowest of 78 municipios.
- Median rent
- $690/moPR median $534 · 73rd lowest of 78
- Median home value
- $163,900PR median $115,700 · 74th lowest of 78
- Median household income
- $35,241/yrPR median $24,070 · 6th highest of 78
- Income per person
- $19,840PR median $14,811
- Homes owner-occupied
- 81%PR median 71.1%
- Homes vacant
- 14%PR median 20.3%
- Below the poverty line
- 33%PR median 44.1%
- Typical home built
- 1991median 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 39 minutes, 11 minutes longer than the island median.
- Typical commute
- 39 minPR median 27 min · 77th shortest of 78
- Work from home
- 5.6%PR median 4.5%
- Commute by transit
- 0.0%PR median 0.3%
- Unemployment
- 7.3%PR median 10.5%
- Households with broadband
- 81%PR median 80.6% · 38th highest of 78
- To San Juan
- ~11 minext door: Toa Baja, Dorado, Vega Alta
81% of households have a broadband subscription (38th of 78).
People
- Population
- 66,32070 km²
- Residents per km²
- 947PR median 295 · 8th densest of 78
- Median age
- 41.9PR median 44.9
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 31%PR median 24.1% · 10th highest of 78
Daily life
What is mapped in Toa Alta today — counts, then per 10,000 residents so a small town and San Juan read on the same scale.
- Schools
- 223.3 per 10k · PR 6.3
- Supermarkets
- 30.5 per 10k · PR 0.7
- Parks
- 304.5 per 10k · PR 4.1
- Restaurants
- 71.1 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 Toa Alta.
Water, power & safety
- Water. Toa Alta is not on the current AAA rationing calendar. Reservoir levels & the rationing calendar
- Power. LUMA reports outages by town; the live tracker shows Toa Alta’s share of customers out right now. Outages by town
- Safety. 11.5 reported violent crimes per 10,000 residents in 2025 — among the lowest of the 78 municipios (4 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.
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