Best PlacesBayamon Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in Bayamon 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.

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Bayamon Municipio is unranked among counties under the default weighting. The coast is about 10 minutes away. Its strengths are low property taxes and walkability. The cost shows up in the weather, state infrastructure, and taxes.


The best neighborhoods in Bayamon Municipio

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

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 3%Walkability
Top 3%Affordable childcare

Bayamon Municipio lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Low property taxes is the standout, in the top 1% of counties. Walkability and affordable childcare follow.

The one real hole is the weather, near the bottom of the country. State infrastructure and taxes also cost it ground. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Bayamon Municipio with other counties.

Where Bayamon Municipio ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of counties
  • WalkabilityBetter than 99% of counties
  • Cheap childcare$424 a month, better than 98% of counties
  • Big-city accessBetter than 95% of counties
  • BikingBetter than 75% of counties

Where Bayamon Municipio ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 2 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of counties
  • 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$33,802 median, better than only 1% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Bayamon Municipio

A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bayamon Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $33,802; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$36,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$828
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $151,614 home
Median rent
$791
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$773
Property tax$5
Homeowners insurance$51

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 Bayamon Municipio's effective rate of 0.04%, 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 Bayamon Municipio

Bayamon Municipio runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
45
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
25%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1815%
18 to 3422%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6419%
65 and older25%

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


Who works in Bayamon Municipio, and how

Work in Bayamon Municipio centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
4.7%
about the national average

Largest industries

Retail trade14%
Health care & social12%
Hospitality & food9%
Education8%
Public administration8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 86%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 6%

Life in Bayamon Municipio

The coast is about 10 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Bayamon Municipio, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
916
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 49.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 58% of counties
Coffee shops
124
about 6.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 65% of counties
Parkland
584 acres
about 3.2 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 38% of counties
To the coast
10 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

Is Bayamon Municipio growing, and who is moving in?

Bayamon Municipio has lost about 18% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the San Juan, PR metro.

Population growth
-18%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
169,269
down from 207,675
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the San Juan, PR metro4,987 / yr
Arecibo, PR346 / yr
Orlando, FL217 / yr
Mayaguez, PR178 / yr
Ponce, PR169 / yr

Where people leaving Bayamon Municipio go

The rest of the San Juan, PR metro3,630 / yr
Orlando, FL966 / yr
Tampa, FL457 / yr
Columbia, SC391 / yr
Miami, FL237 / yr

Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.


What the weather is like in Bayamon Municipio, month by month

Bayamon Municipio sees roughly 2 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.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January82°79°74°
April83°81°76°
July87°84°81°
October87°84°79°

Flying in and out of Bayamon Municipio

The nearest airport, Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 12 miles away.

Nearest airport
SIG
Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci, about 7 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
350th-busiest in the US, 3 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

Bayamon 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 Bayamon Municipio against counties nationally.


Who Bayamon Municipio suits

Families

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

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Remote workers

8% already work from home.

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Retirees

Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.

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Common questions about living in Bayamon Municipio

Is Bayamon Municipio a good place to live?

It scores highest on low property taxes, walkability, and affordable childcare, 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 Bayamon Municipio expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $151,614. Set against a $33,802 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.

Is Bayamon Municipio safe?

Bayamon Municipio is safer than 2% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $808 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Bayamon Municipio?

July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 74. That works out to about 2 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of counties.



Sources and methodology

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

Bayamon Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Bayamon Municipio 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. U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
  3. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  4. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  5. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  6. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  7. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  8. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  9. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  10. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  11. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  13. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.