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SheetPR-TRUJILLO-ALTO-ZONA-URBANA-PR · Trujillo Alto zona urbana, PR 43,752 pop · income 7th pct · 17 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 Trujillo Alto zona urbana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Trujillo Alto zona urbana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mayagüez zona… · lowest
17,092
Mayagüez zona… · lowest
17,092 median HH income
11.5% of the leader · rank #1
Mount Union · near
38,947
Mount Union · near
38,947 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #2
Raleigh · near
38,950
Raleigh · near
38,950 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #3
Trujillo Alto… · this city
38,951
Trujillo Alto… · this city
38,951 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #4
Conetoe · near
38,955
Conetoe · near
38,955 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #5
Watson · near
38,958
Watson · near
38,958 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #6
Hicksville · highest
148,008
Hicksville · highest
148,008 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 Trujillo Alto 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: 43,752.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Trujillo Alto zona urbana lands in the 7th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
7th
percentile, household income
32nd
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: Trujillo Alto zona urbana, PR
Trujillo Alto zona urbana is a small city in Puerto Rico, home to 43,752 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $38,951 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 24.1%. Trujillo Alto zona urbana's housing stock carries a median value of $165,000, and the median resident age is 43.9 years.
Monthly utility costs average around $195 across Puerto Rico, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Trujillo Alto zona urbana workers runs 28.0 minutes, with 79.9% driving alone and 6.6% working from home.
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Trujillo Alto 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 comparison shortlist to within-city variation to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Trujillo Alto zona urbana, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Trujillo Alto zona urbana?
Within Puerto Rico, the closest population matches are Arecibo zona urbana (40,255 residents, $21,984 income); Mayagüez zona urbana (59,427 residents, $17,092 income); Mansión del Mar comunidad (26,540 residents, $37,256 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hickory, NC (43,747 residents); Lombard, IL (43,722 residents); Leominster, MA (43,697 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.
What can 17 Census tracts reveal inside Trujillo Alto zona urbana?
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 17 Census tracts to this city.
What does the journey to work look like in Trujillo Alto zona urbana?
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 79.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.0 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Trujillo Alto zona urbana?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 24.1%, 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 24.1% (Highest-decile poverty)
Median Home Value
$165,000
Near-typical home values
F
City profile score · Trujillo Alto zona urbana, PR
6/100
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.
Poverty rate F
24.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$38,951
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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 Trujillo Alto zona urbana compare to other US cities?
Here's how Trujillo Alto zona urbana stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income7% higher than other cities
Home value32% 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 Trujillo Alto 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 is Trujillo Alto zona urbana's strongest outlier among Puerto Rico cities
Among the 274 Puerto Rico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median home value data, Trujillo Alto zona urbana ranks #18 - the 93rd percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Trujillo Alto zona urbana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#13 of 268
95th percentile in Puerto Rico
Median Home Value
#18 of 274
93rd percentile in Puerto Rico
Poverty Rate
#255 of 286
11th 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
7th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Trujillo Alto zona urbana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$165,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 68% 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
Trujillo Alto zona urbana's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,344 of 15,516
More affordable than 27% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,169 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.2×, Trujillo Alto zona urbana sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,344 of 15,516 and #2,169 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$38,951Trujillo Alto zona urbana, PR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Trujillo Alto 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 Trujillo Alto zona urbana, PR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Poverty rate (households below FPL)24.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
43,752
Median Income
$38,951
Median Home Value
$165,000
Median Age
43.9
Poverty Rate
24.1%
Labor force participation
51.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
N/A
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.0 minutes
Drive Alone
79.9%
Carpool
10.8%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
6.6%
Other
1.3%
Based on 19,275 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 Trujillo Alto zona urbana. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
How Trujillo Alto 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.