Best Places00662, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 00662, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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00662 is unranked among zip codes under the default weighting. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.


The best neighborhoods in 00662

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 00662 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

00662's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Top 10%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 00662 with other zip codes.

Where 00662 ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$348 a month, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 74% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 68% of zip codes

Where 00662 ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 0 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Household income$24,552 median, better than only 3% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 00662

A household needs to earn about $32,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 00662 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $24,552, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$32,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$755
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $138,964 home
Median rent
$590
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$709
Property tax$0
Homeowners insurance$46

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 00662's effective rate of 0.00%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 00662

00662 runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
46
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
23%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1815%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older23%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 00662.


Who works in 00662, and how

Work in 00662 centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
7%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.8%
above the national average

Largest industries

Retail trade18%
Health care & social14%
Manufacturing10%
Public administration9%
Hospitality & food9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 86%
  • Work from home 7%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 8%

Life in 00662

00662 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of zip codes. The coast is about 4 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of 00662 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
290
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 71.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 81% of zip codes
Coffee shops
34
about 8.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 80% of zip codes
To the coast
4 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 00662, month by month

00662 sees roughly 0 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 82, with lows near 70. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January82°77°70°
April83°79°72°
July88°83°76°
October87°81°74°

Flying in and out of 00662

The nearest airport, Rafael Hernandez, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 67 miles away.

Nearest airport
BQN
Rafael Hernandez, about 7 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
170th-busiest in the US, 9 nonstop destinations
Average drive
10 min
from the area, with no traffic

00662 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 00662 against zip codes nationally.


Who 00662 suits

Families

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Remote workers

7% already work from home.

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Retirees

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Common questions about living in 00662

Is 00662 a good place to live?

It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and clean air, and lowest on the weather and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 00662 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $138,964. Set against a $24,552 median income, cost of living beats 50% of zip codes.

Is 00662 safe?

00662 is safer than 4% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $843 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 00662?

July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 70. That works out to about 0 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of zip codes.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 00662. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 00662 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

00662 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 00662: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 00662: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 00662: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 00662: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

00662 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.