State Puerto Rico - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Puerto Rico was $25,096. An estimated 21.6% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 1.6% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 56.4% of households received earnings. An estimated 45.9% of households received Social Security and an estimated 17.4 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $15,693. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 41.6 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 55.6% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 39.2% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 38.6% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 46.8 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 30.1% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 52.5% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 31.8% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Puerto Rico in 2019-2023, 93.8% had health insurance coverage and 6.2% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 38.5% and public coverage was 62%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 2.9%.

In 2019-2023, Puerto Rico had a total population of 3,254,885 - 1,713,898 (52.7%) females and 1,540,987 (47.3%) males. The median age was 44.2 years. An estimated 16.7% of the population was under 18 years, 31.7% was 19 to 44 years, 26.3% was 45 to 64 years, and 22.7 % was 65 years and older.

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In 2019-2023, an estimated NaN% of the people living in Puerto Rico were U.S. natives. NaN% of the Puerto Rico population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately NaN% of Puerto Rico residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. NaN% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated NaN % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Puerto Rico come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Puerto Rico.

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In 2019-2023, NaN % of the people at least one year old living in Puerto Rico were living in the same house one year earlier.

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In Puerto Rico, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, NaN % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from NaN% of people under 18 years old, to NaN% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to NaN% of those 65 and over.

In Puerto Rico, 39.9 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 54.5% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 69.7% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 18.8% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 11.3 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Puerto Rico worked in the following industries:

An estimated 82.8% of Puerto Rico workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 6.7% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 28.2 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Puerto Rico had a total of 1,575,105 housing units. Of these housing units, 80.6% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 19.2% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 0.3% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

2.7% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 1.9% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Puerto Rico was 4.7 rooms, and of these housing units 72.5% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Puerto Rico had 1,239,243 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 335,862 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 68.1% while renters occupied 31.9%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.66 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.45.

5.4% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 27% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 13.5% and another 15.1% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Puerto Rico:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Puerto Rico was $124,600.

Of the owner-occupied households, 37.5 % had a mortgage. 62.5% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $946 and for owners without a mortgage it was $175.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Puerto Rico was $562. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.