In 2023, Puerto Rico had a population of 3.25M people with a median age of 44.2 and a median household income of N/A. Between 2022 and 2023 the population of Puerto Rico declined from 3.27M to 3.25M, a −0.535% decrease and its median household income N/A from N/A to N/A, a N/A% N/A.
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95.1% of the households in Puerto Rico reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2023, the median property value in Puerto Rico was $124,600, and the homeownership rate was 68.1%.
Most people in Puerto Rico drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 28.2 minutes. The average car ownership in Puerto Rico was 2 cars per household.
In N/A, there were N/A times more N/A residents (N/A people) in Puerto Rico than any other race or ethnicity. There were N/A N/A and N/A N/A residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
The most common non-English languages spoken as the primary langauge in households in Puerto Rico are Spanish (2,988,559 households), French (Incl. Cajun) (1,291 households), and Chinese (Incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) (1,172 households).
95.1% of the households in Puerto Rico reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language, which is higher than the national average of 22%. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2023, the most common non-English language spoken in households in Puerto Rico was Spanish. 94.9% of the households in Puerto Rico reported speaking Spanish at home as the primary shared language between all members living in the household.
In 2022 there were 970,637 people working in Puerto Rico. The Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA) that concentrated the largest workforce were Bayamón PUMA, PR (59,912 people), San Juan Sur PUMA, PR (59,521 people), and Carolina PUMA, PR (53,937 people).
The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Puerto Rico colored by workforce or average wage.
With the upper buttons you can see the yearly change and add a filter by race.
From N/A to N/A, employment in Puerto Rico stayed at a rate of NaNM%, from N/A employees to N/A employees.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Puerto Rico, are N/A. This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Puerto Rico, though some of these residents may live in Puerto Rico and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2023 are Information ($36,759), Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($33,694), and Public Administration ($32,085).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2023 are Information ($30,958), Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($30,636), and Public Administration ($29,814).
The median tuition costs in N/A are $5,160 for private four year colleges, and $5,024 and $5,024 respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
The graph shows the evolution of awarded degrees by degrees. Under the paragraphs, the average number of awarded degrees by university in each degree is shown.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population of Puerto Rico in N/A were N/A.
This visualization illustrates the percentage distribution of the population according to the highest educational level reached. You can filter the data by race by using the selector above.
The median property value in Puerto Rico was $124,600 in 2023, which is 0.411 times smaller than the national average of $303,400. Between 2022 and 2023 the median property value increased from $121,800 to $124,600, a 2.3% increase. The homeownership rate in Puerto Rico is 68.1%, which is approximately the same as the national average of N/A%.
People in Puerto Rico have an average commute time of 28.2 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Puerto Rico is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Puerto Rico the largest share of households pay taxes in the N/A range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Puerto Rico compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data.
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Median Household Income
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Number of Households
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In N/A, the median household income of the 1.24M households in Puerto Rico N/A N/A from the previous year's value of N/A.
The following chart displays the households in Puerto Rico distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the < $10k range.
In N/A, the income inequality in N/A was N/A according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a N/A N/A from N/A to N/A, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat N/A even. The GINI for N/A was N/A than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed N/A evenly in N/A in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Puerto Rico across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2023, 82.8% of workers in Puerto Rico drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (6.7%) and those who worked at home (5.39%).
The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.
Using averages, employees in Puerto Rico have a longer commute time (28.2 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.6 minutes). Additionally, N/A% of the workforce in Puerto Rico have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Puerto Rico compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Puerto Rico distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Puerto Rico have 2 cars.
41.6% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Puerto Rico (1.34M out of 3.23M people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Puerto Rico is N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
N/A% of the population of Puerto Rico has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans.
In 2023, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in 18.1% under 18 years, 21% between 18 and 34 years, 38.2% between 35 and 64 years, and 22.7% over 64 years.
By gender, of the total number of insured persons, 46.3% were men and 53.7% were women.
The following chart shows the number of people with health coverage by gender.
Between N/A and N/A, the percent of uninsured citizens in Puerto Rico N/A by N/A from N/A% to N/A%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Puerto Rico changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
