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SheetPR-JUANA-DAZ-ZONA-URBANA-PR · Juana Díaz zona urbana, PR 8,031 pop · income 0th pct · 13 tracts
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 Juana Díaz zona urbana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Juana Díaz zona urbana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Utuado zona u… · lowest
14,843
Utuado zona u… · lowest
14,843 median HH income
8.7% of the leader · rank #1
Haystack · near
19,074
Haystack · near
19,074 median HH income
11.1% of the leader · rank #2
Juana Díaz zo… · this city
19,075
Juana Díaz zo… · this city
19,075 median HH income
11.1% of the leader · rank #3
Warthen · near
19,082
Warthen · near
19,082 median HH income
11.2% of the leader · rank #4
Notre Dame · near
19,082
Notre Dame · near
19,082 median HH income
11.2% of the leader · rank #5
Prairie View · near
19,106
Prairie View · near
19,106 median HH income
11.2% of the leader · rank #6
Oak Brook · highest
171,123
Oak Brook · highest
171,123 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 Juana Díaz zona urbana 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: 8,031.
Nationally, Juana Díaz zona urbana sits in the 0th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
0th
percentile, household income
14th
percentile, home value
📝 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: Juana Díaz zona urbana, PR
Juana Díaz zona urbana is a small town in Puerto Rico, home to 8,031 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Juana Díaz zona urbana brings in $19,075 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 44.5%. Juana Díaz zona urbana's housing stock carries a median value of $110,900, and the median resident age is 46.7 years.
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Puerto Rico's average monthly utility costs around $195 (state average). Workers in Juana Díaz zona urbana report an average commute of 25.5 minutes, with 87.9% driving alone and 2.8% working from home.
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Juana Díaz zona urbana'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Juana Díaz zona urbana, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Juana Díaz zona urbana?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 44.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Juana Díaz zona urbana?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 87.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.5 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Which cities make useful reference points for Juana Díaz zona urbana?
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.
Within Puerto Rico, the closest population matches are Sabana Seca comunidad (8,097 residents, $23,699 income); Utuado zona urbana (7,640 residents, $14,843 income); Luquillo zona urbana (7,461 residents, $22,414 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wilmington Manor, DE (8,030 residents); Port Jefferson, NY (8,029 residents); Oak Brook, IL (8,028 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.
What can 13 Census tracts reveal inside Juana Díaz zona urbana?
PlainCities matches 13 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 44.5% (Highest-decile poverty)
Median Home Value
$110,900
Lower home values
F
City profile score · Juana Díaz zona urbana, 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
$19,075
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
44.5%
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 Juana Díaz zona urbana compare to other US cities?
Here's how Juana Díaz zona urbana stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income0% higher than other cities
Home value14% pricier 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 Juana Díaz zona urbana 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
Median Home Value sits close to the middle of Puerto Rico's city distribution
Among the 274 Puerto Rico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median home value data, Juana Díaz zona urbana ranks #98 - the 64th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Juana Díaz zona urbana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#172 of 268
36th percentile in Puerto Rico
Median Home Value
#98 of 274
64th percentile in Puerto Rico
Poverty Rate
#157 of 286
45th 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.
How Juana Díaz zona urbana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$110,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 86% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Juana Díaz zona urbana's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,931 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,358 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.8×, Juana Díaz zona urbana sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,931 of 15,516 and #10,358 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$19,075Juana Díaz zona urbana, PR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Juana Díaz zona urbana, 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 Juana Díaz zona urbana, PR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Poverty rate (households below FPL)44.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)27.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,031
Median Income
$19,075
Median Home Value
$110,900
Median Age
46.7
Poverty Rate
44.5%
Labor force participation
27.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
N/A
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.5 minutes
Drive Alone
87.9%
Carpool
4.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
2.8%
Other
2.0%
Based on 1,804 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 Juana Díaz zona urbana. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
How Juana Díaz zona urbana 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.