Best Places00683, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 00683, 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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00683 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 00683

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 00683 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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00683's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Top 5%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 00683 with other zip codes.

Where 00683 ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$356 a month, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than 96% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 79% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 72% of zip codes

Where 00683 ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 1 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$20,453 median, better than only 3% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 00683

A household needs to earn about $26,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 00683 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $20,453, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$26,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$597
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $109,721 home
Median rent
$462
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$559
Property tax$1
Homeowners insurance$37

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 00683's effective rate of 0.01%, 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 00683

00683 runs older than the country.

Median age
49
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
29%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1815%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6419%
65 and older29%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 00683.


Who works in 00683, and how

Work in 00683 centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
8.9%
above the national average

Largest industries

Manufacturing16%
Health care & social15%
Retail trade13%
Education10%
Admin & support services9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in 00683

00683 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 67% of zip codes and more parkland per resident than 70% of zip codes. The coast is about 13 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of 00683 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
145
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 48.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 67% of zip codes
Coffee shops
15
about 5.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 67% of zip codes
Parkland
109 acres
about 3.6 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 70% of zip codes
To the coast
13 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 00683, month by month

00683 sees roughly 1 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 00683

The nearest airport, Eugenio Maria De Hostos, is about 13 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 72 miles away.

Nearest airport
MAZ
Eugenio Maria De Hostos, about 13 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
19 min
from the area, with no traffic

00683 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 00683 against zip codes nationally.


Who 00683 suits

Families

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Remote workers

6% already work from home.

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Retirees

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Common questions about living in 00683

Is 00683 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 00683 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $109,721. Set against a $20,453 median income, cost of living beats 50% of zip codes.

Is 00683 safe?

00683 is safer than 5% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $771 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 00683?

July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 70. That works out to about 1 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 00683. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 00683 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.

00683 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 00683: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 00683: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 00683: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 00683: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

00683 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.