Best PlacesBarrio Amelia, Guaynabo, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo, 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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Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo is unranked among neighborhoods under the default weighting. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.


The best neighborhoods in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

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

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Top 10%A stable housing market
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo with other neighborhoods.

Where Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap childcare$482 a month, better than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than 86% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than 74% of neighborhoods

Where Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo ranks low

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

What it costs to buy a home in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

A household needs to earn about $27,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $19,195, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$27,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$638
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $117,065 home
Median rent
$554
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$597
Property tax$2
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 Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo's effective rate of 0.02%, 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 6 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 Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
48
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
29%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.3
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6417%
65 and older28%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo.


Who works in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo, and how

Work in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo centers on hospitality & food and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
4%
below the national average
Unemployment
10.9%
above the national average

Largest industries

Hospitality & food21%
Health care & social10%
Transportation & warehousing9%
Public administration9%
Admin & support services8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 4%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 14%

Life in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

The coast is about 3 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
20
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 39.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 59% of neighborhoods
To the coast
3 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo, month by month

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo sees roughly 0 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January82°79°74°
April83°81°76°
July87°84°81°
October87°84°79°

Flying in and out of Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

The nearest airport, Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci, is about 2 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 8 miles away.

Nearest airport
SIG
Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci, about 2 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
350th-busiest in the US, 3 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo 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 Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo against neighborhoods nationally.


Common questions about living in Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo

Is Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo a good place to live?

It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and a stable housing market, and lowest on the weather and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $117,065. Set against a $19,195 median income, cost of living beats 50% of neighborhoods.

Is Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo safe?

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo is safer than 7% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $951 per resident a year.



Sources and methodology

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

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Barrio Amelia, Guaynabo 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.