Best Places00754, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 00754, 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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00754 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 00754

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 00754 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.

00754's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 3%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 00754 with other zip codes.

Where 00754 ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$415 a month, better than 98% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 82% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 78% of zip codes

Where 00754 ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 3 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$24,933 median, better than only 3% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 00754

A household needs to earn about $27,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 00754 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $24,933; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$27,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$639
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $117,360 home
Median rent
$622
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$598
Property tax$1
Homeowners insurance$39

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 00754'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 5 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 00754

00754 runs older than the country.

Median age
45
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older22%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 00754.


Who works in 00754, and how

Work in 00754 centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
0%
below the national average
Unemployment
9.1%
above the national average

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Manufacturing14%
Retail trade12%
Education10%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 0%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 11%

Life in 00754

The coast is about 22 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across 00754, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
148
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 39.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 57% of zip codes
Coffee shops
11
about 2.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 53% of zip codes
To the coast
22 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 00754, month by month

00754 sees roughly 3 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 85, with lows near 73. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January85°78°73°
April87°79°74°
July90°83°78°
October90°83°78°

Flying in and out of 00754

Luis Munoz Marin International sits about 19 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.7 million passengers in 2025, with 88 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SJU
Luis Munoz Marin International, about 19 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
38th-busiest in the US, 88 nonstop destinations
Average drive
27 min
from the area, with no traffic

00754 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 00754 against zip codes nationally.


Who 00754 suits

Families

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Remote workers

0% already work from home.

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Retirees

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Common questions about living in 00754

Is 00754 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 00754 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $117,360. Set against a $24,933 median income, cost of living beats 50% of zip codes.

Is 00754 safe?

00754 is safer than 6% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $738 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 00754?

July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 85 with lows near 73. That works out to about 3 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 00754. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 00754 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.

00754 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 00754: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 00754: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 00754: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 00754: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

00754 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.