Best PlacesBarranquitas Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Barranquitas Municipio, 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.
Barranquitas Municipio is unranked among counties under the default weighting. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and state infrastructure ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Barranquitas Municipio
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.
Barranquitas Municipio's strengths and weaknesses
Where Barranquitas Municipio ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of counties
- Cheap childcare$415 a month, better than 98% of counties
- Big-city accessBetter than 94% of counties
- Air qualityBetter than 88% of counties
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 58% of counties
Where Barranquitas Municipio ranks low
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of counties
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of counties
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of counties
- Household income$23,867 median, better than only 1% of counties
- Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Barranquitas Municipio
A household needs to earn about $29,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Barranquitas Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $23,867, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Barranquitas Municipio'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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Barranquitas Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Barranquitas Municipio.
Who works in Barranquitas Municipio, and how
Work in Barranquitas Municipio centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Barranquitas Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio has more restaurants and bars per resident than 74% of counties. The coast is about 36 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Barranquitas Municipio and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Barranquitas Municipio growing, and who is moving in?
Barranquitas Municipio has lost about 9% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the San Juan, PR metro.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Barranquitas Municipio go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Barranquitas Municipio, month by month
Barranquitas Municipio sees roughly 82 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 82, with lows near 74. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 82° | 79° | 74° |
| April | 83° | 81° | 76° |
| July | 87° | 84° | 81° |
| October | 87° | 84° | 79° |
Flying in and out of Barranquitas Municipio
The nearest airport, Mercedita, is about 21 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 26 miles away.
Barranquitas Municipio 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 Barranquitas Municipio against counties nationally.
Who Barranquitas Municipio suits
Families
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Retirees
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Common questions about living in Barranquitas Municipio
Is Barranquitas Municipio a good place to live?
It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and big-city access, and lowest on state infrastructure and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Barranquitas Municipio expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $124,668. Set against a $23,867 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.
Is Barranquitas Municipio safe?
Barranquitas Municipio is safer than 4% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $689 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Barranquitas Municipio?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 74. That works out to about 82 pleasant days a year, more than 42% of counties.
Compare Barranquitas Municipio with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Barranquitas Municipio. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Barranquitas Municipio 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.
Barranquitas Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Barranquitas Municipio: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Barranquitas Municipio: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Barranquitas Municipio: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Barranquitas Municipio: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Barranquitas Municipio detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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