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Place dossier plate
SheetPR-EL-VEINTISIS-COMUNIDAD-PR · El Veintiséis comunidad, PR 437 pop · income 0th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around El Veintiséis comunidad
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest El Veintiséis comunidad on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Vayas comunid… · lowest
7,337
Vayas comunid… · lowest
7,337 median HH income
7.8% of the leader · rank #1
The College o… · near
8,493
The College o… · near
8,493 median HH income
9.1% of the leader · rank #2
Pajonal comun… · near
8,720
Pajonal comun… · near
8,720 median HH income
9.3% of the leader · rank #3
El Veintiséis… · this city
9,485
El Veintiséis… · this city
9,485 median HH income
10.1% of the leader · rank #4
Homestead Base · near
9,960
Homestead Base · near
9,960 median HH income
10.7% of the leader · rank #5
Nageezi · near
10,921
Nageezi · near
10,921 median HH income
11.7% of the leader · rank #6
Blandford · highest
93,500
Blandford · highest
93,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for El Veintiséis comunidad on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 437.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, El Veintiséis comunidad lands in the 0th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
0th
percentile, household income
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: El Veintiséis comunidad, PR
Puerto Rico's El Veintiséis comunidad is a small town, with 437 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $9,485 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 57.1%. The median resident age is 53.9 years.
Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Puerto Rico run around $195, per EIA 2023 residential energy data.
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of El Veintiséis comunidad's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For El Veintiséis comunidad, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in El Veintiséis comunidad?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for El Veintiséis comunidad?
Within Puerto Rico, the closest population matches are La Pica comunidad (448 residents, $23,750 income); La Liga comunidad (449 residents, $90,948 income); Vayas comunidad (414 residents, $7,337 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rock Mills, AL (437 residents); Valley Acres, CA (437 residents); Elizabeth, LA (437 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 57.1% (Highest-decile poverty)
Median Home Value
N/A
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F
City profile score · El Veintiséis comunidad, PR
0/100
2 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income F
$9,485
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
57.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share N/A
N/A
No ACS bachelor's-attainment share on file for this place.
Cost of living N/A
N/A
No cost-of-living index on file for this place.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
How does El Veintiséis comunidad compare to other US cities?
Where El Veintiséis comunidad sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income0% higher than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares El Veintiséis comunidad against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Puerto Rico only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Puerto Rico-relative analysis
Poverty Rate places El Veintiséis comunidad toward the top of Puerto Rico's cities
Among the 286 Puerto Rico cities PlainCities tracks with reported poverty rate data, El Veintiséis comunidad ranks #66 - the 77th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares El Veintiséis comunidad only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#265 of 268
1st percentile in Puerto Rico
Poverty Rate
#66 of 286
77th percentile in Puerto Rico
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Puerto Rico only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
0th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$9,485El Veintiséis comunidad, PR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context El Veintiséis comunidad, PR median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for El Veintiséis comunidad, PR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Poverty rate (households below FPL)57.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
437
Median Income
$9,485
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
53.9
Poverty Rate
57.1%
Labor force participation
43.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
N/A
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.9%
Carpool
11.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Other
22.6%
Based on 182 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Puerto Rico statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $195
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Puerto Rico at $195 (electricity about $160 , water and sewer about $35 ).
These are Puerto Rico statewide averages, not a meter reading for El Veintiséis comunidad. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
How El Veintiséis comunidad compares to similar-size Puerto Rico cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.