Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Capital
- San Juan
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 3.2 million
- Currency
- USD
- Area
- 8,870 km²
Across Puerto Rico's 38 priced cities, one person needs about $2,103 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,712.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
56out of 100
- Purchasing power25%58
- Safety20%39
- Health care15%59
- Climate10%71
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%23
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #84
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
74.0
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
22.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
103.5
New York = 100
One person
$2,103
A month, rent included
Net salary
$2,712
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$1,000
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$40,620
2025
Growth
+0.3%
2025
Unemployment
6.0%
2025
Inflation
—
Life expectancy
81.9 years
2024
Internet users
87%
2022
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 33%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 37.5%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 11.5%
- SourceWikipedia
- Capital gains, individuals
- 15%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 38.7
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 61.3
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 14.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Puerto Rico
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Carolina | 63 | — | $700 | $2,000 | — | 170.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 2Cabo Rojo | 60 | 73.5 | — | $4,250 | 262.0 | 10.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3Bayamon | 59 | 73.5 | $1,000 | $2,061 | 112.0 | 203.5K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 4Trujillo Alto | 59 | 72.3 | $700 | $3,325 | 212.9 | 75.2K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 5Ponce | 59 | 72.0 | $1,050 | — | — | 137.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 6Caguas | 58 | 72.3 | $750 | $3,067 | 191.0 | 86.8K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 7Coamo | 57 | 75.6 | $650 | $2,800 | 179.3 | 11.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 8Guaynabo | 56 | 72.6 | $900 | $3,033 | 174.3 | 81.4K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 9Humacao | 56 | 68.6 | $583 | $2,048 | 145.1 | 20.4K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 10Luquillo | 56 | 79.1 | $810 | $2,981 | 170.5 | 8.3K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 11San German | 56 | 78.8 | — | $2,800 | 165.5 | 12.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 12Cayey | 55 | 79.2 | $1,200 | $3,686 | 176.3 | 18.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 13San Juan | 54 | 78.7 | $1,813 | $2,712 | 103.5 | 418.1K | High confidence, 33 contributors |
| 14Guayama | 50 | 76.7 | $421 | — | — | 21.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 15Vega Alta | 50 | 78.8 | $400 | — | — | 12K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 16Aguada | 49 | — | $500 | $2,199 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Naranjito | 49 | — | $800 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18Las Marias | 49 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 19Aguadilla | 49 | 71.7 | — | $1,350 | 84.5 | 16.1K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 20Gurabo | 48 | 68.7 | — | — | — | 9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 21Mayaguez | 48 | 74.0 | — | — | — | 73.1K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 22Toa Alta | 48 | 73.8 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 23Vega Baja | 47 | 74.9 | — | — | — | 29.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 24Rio Grande | 47 | 75.1 | — | — | — | 13.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 25Dorado | 47 | 76.0 | — | — | — | 13.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 26San Lorenzo | 47 | 75.3 | — | — | — | 9.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 27Isabela | 47 | 76.9 | — | — | — | 12.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 28Santa Isabel | 47 | 77.4 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 29Arecibo | 47 | 73.8 | — | $1,200 | 73.8 | 87.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 30Levittown | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 29.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 31Candelaria | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 17.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 32Hormigueros | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 11.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 33Sabana Grande | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 34Las Piedras | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 6.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 35Añasco | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 6.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 36Hatillo | 47 | 78.7 | — | — | — | 5.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 37Orocovis | 47 | 78.8 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 38Puerto de Tierra | 47 | 78.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 39Las Muesas | 47 | 76.0 | $810 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 40Fajardo | 46 | 77.0 | $1,000 | — | — | 32.1K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 41Manati | 44 | 70.2 | $750 | $789 | 50.0 | 16.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 42Rincon | 43 | 74.0 | $1,200 | $1,250 | 61.8 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |