County Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico was $18,413. An estimated 27.6% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 0.4% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 50.1% of households received earnings. An estimated 44.5% of households received Social Security and an estimated 14.3 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $15,018. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 54.9 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 67.7% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 50.9% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 52.2% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 65.6 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 33.1% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 47.8% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 26.9% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico in 2019-2023, 96.6% had health insurance coverage and 3.4% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 26.9% and public coverage was 74.6%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 0.5%.

In 2019-2023, Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico had a total population of 14,653 - 7,576 (51.7%) females and 7,077 (48.3%) males. The median age was 43.2 years. An estimated 19.3% of the population was under 18 years, 32.3% was 19 to 44 years, 25.4% was 45 to 64 years, and 19.4 % was 65 years and older.

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

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Foreign-born residents of Jayuya Municipio, 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 Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico.

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

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In Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico, 31.1 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 62.1% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 66.3% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 29.8% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 3.9 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

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

An estimated 85.1% of Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 11.3% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 19.5 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico had a total of 6,276 housing units. Of these housing units, 88.3% 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"). 11% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 0.7% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

4.2% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 0.6% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico was 4.9 rooms, and of these housing units 74.5% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico had 4,876 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 1,400 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 59.8% while renters occupied 40.2%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 3.12 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.81.

4.7% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 21.6% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 16.2% and another 16.2% had three or more vehicles available for use.

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

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico was $105,000.

Of the owner-occupied households, 26.7 % had a mortgage. 73.3% 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 $685 and for owners without a mortgage it was $137.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Jayuya Municipio, Puerto Rico was $463. 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.