Best PlacesAguada, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Aguada, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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


The best neighborhoods in Aguada

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Aguada 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.

Aguada's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Top 3%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Aguada with other cities.

Where Aguada ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of cities
  • Cheap childcare$407 a month, better than 99% of cities
  • Air qualityBetter than 98% of cities
  • WalkabilityBetter than 75% of cities
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 73% of cities

Where Aguada ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 0 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of cities
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of cities
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of cities
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of cities
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 1% of cities

What it costs to buy a home in Aguada

A household needs to earn about $34,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Aguada home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $23,316, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$34,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$787
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $144,535 home
Median rent
$497
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$737
Property tax$2
Homeowners insurance$48

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 Aguada'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 9 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 Aguada

Aguada 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
24%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.8
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1814%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older24%

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


Who works in Aguada, and how

Work in Aguada centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment sits above the national rate.

Work from home
13%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.1%
above the national average

Largest industries

Retail trade18%
Manufacturing10%
Education9%
Hospitality & food9%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 13%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Aguada

Aguada has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of cities and more parkland per resident than 77% of cities. The coast is about 3 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Aguada and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
428
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 135.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 94% of cities
Coffee shops
40
about 12.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 91% of cities
Parkland
50 acres
about 1.6 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 77% of cities
To the coast
3 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Aguada, month by month

Aguada 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 Aguada

The nearest airport, Eugenio Maria De Hostos, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 77 miles away.

Nearest airport
MAZ
Eugenio Maria De Hostos, about 8 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
12 min
from the area, with no traffic

Aguada 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 Aguada against cities nationally.


Who Aguada suits

Families

Weigh schools and safety yourself on the map to find the right neighborhoods.

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Remote workers

13% already work from home.

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Retirees

It is quieter than 71%.

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Common questions about living in Aguada

Is Aguada a good place to live?

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

Is Aguada expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $144,535. Set against a $23,316 median income, cost of living beats 50% of cities.

Is Aguada safe?

Aguada is safer than 1% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $773 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Aguada?

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 cities.



Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Aguada. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Aguada 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.

Aguada detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Aguada 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.