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SheetPR-PUERTO-REAL-COMUNIDAD-PR · Puerto Real comunidad, PR 6,059 pop · income 1st pct · 15 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 Puerto Real comunidad
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Puerto Real comunidad on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Coco comunidad · lowest
15,995
Coco comunidad · lowest
15,995 median HH income
15.8% of the leader · rank #1
Porcupine · near
20,256
Porcupine · near
20,256 median HH income
20.0% of the leader · rank #2
Puerto Real c… · this city
20,318
Puerto Real c… · this city
20,318 median HH income
20.1% of the leader · rank #3
Chitina · near
20,417
Chitina · near
20,417 median HH income
20.2% of the leader · rank #4
Keysville · near
20,417
Keysville · near
20,417 median HH income
20.2% of the leader · rank #5
Van Buren · near
20,441
Van Buren · near
20,441 median HH income
20.2% of the leader · rank #6
Inniswold · highest
101,149
Inniswold · highest
101,149 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 Puerto Real 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: 6,059.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Puerto Real comunidad places in the 1st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
1st
percentile, household income
11th
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: Puerto Real comunidad, PR
6,059 people live in Puerto Real comunidad, Puerto Rico - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Puerto Real comunidad report a median income of $20,318 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 40.5%. Puerto Real comunidad's housing stock carries a median value of $104,100, and the median resident age is 43.6 years.
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Puerto Rico's average monthly utility costs around $195 (state average). Workers in Puerto Real comunidad report an average commute of 21.9 minutes, with 87.0% driving alone and 3.5% working from home.
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Puerto Real 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 within-city variation to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Puerto Real comunidad, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 15 Census tracts reveal inside Puerto Real comunidad?
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.
PlainCities matches 15 Census tracts to this city.
What does the journey to work look like in Puerto Real 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. 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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 87.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.9 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Puerto Real comunidad?
Within Puerto Rico, the closest population matches are Quebradillas zona urbana (6,157 residents, $23,706 income); Cidra zona urbana (5,927 residents, $20,990 income); Yabucoa zona urbana (5,740 residents, $17,511 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Homeland, CA (6,060 residents); Everman, TX (6,060 residents); Avon, CO (6,057 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Puerto Real comunidad?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 40.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 40.5% (Highest-decile poverty)
Median Home Value
$104,100
Lower home values
F
City profile score · Puerto Real 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
$20,318
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
40.5%
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 Puerto Real comunidad compare to other US cities?
Where Puerto Real comunidad sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income1% higher than other cities
Home value11% 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 Puerto Real 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 sits close to the middle of Puerto Rico's city distribution
Among the 286 Puerto Rico cities PlainCities tracks with reported poverty rate data, Puerto Real comunidad ranks #194 - the 31st percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Puerto Real comunidad only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#151 of 268
44th percentile in Puerto Rico
Median Home Value
#143 of 274
48th percentile in Puerto Rico
Poverty Rate
#194 of 286
31st 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
1st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Puerto Real comunidad's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$104,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 89% 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
Puerto Real comunidad's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,096 of 15,516
More affordable than 16% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,875 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.1×, Puerto Real comunidad sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,096 of 15,516 and #9,875 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
$20,318Puerto Real comunidad, PR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Puerto Real 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 Puerto Real comunidad, PR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Poverty rate (households below FPL)40.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)34.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,059
Median Income
$20,318
Median Home Value
$104,100
Median Age
43.6
Poverty Rate
40.5%
Labor force participation
34.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
N/A
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.9 minutes
Drive Alone
87.0%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
3.5%
Based on 1,676 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 Puerto Real comunidad. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
How Puerto Real 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.