Best PlacesBayamon, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bayamon, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Bayamon is unranked among cities under the default weighting. The coast is about 10 minutes away. Its strengths are low property taxes and affordable childcare. The cost shows up in the weather, state infrastructure, and low incomes.
The best neighborhoods in Bayamon
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.
The best areas in Bayamon
The parts of Bayamon, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Lomas Verdes
Streets are more walkable and biking is better.
Urbanizacion Magnolia Gdns, Urbanizacion Sierra Linda & Villa Contessa
More households have young kids, though more homes sit empty.
Urbanizacion Sierra Bayamon, Urbanizacion Rio Hondo & Extencion Villa Rica
It is noisier.
Urbanizacion Miraflores, Urbanizacion Bayamon Gdns & Urbanizacion Rexville
Parcelas van Scoy, Urbanizacion Bella Vista & Urbanizacion Cana
Crime runs lower.
Urbanizacion Santa Juanita & Urbanizacion Irlanda Hts
More adults hold degrees.
Urbanizacion El Cortijo & Urbanizacion Royal Town
Scores close to Urbanizacion Santa Juanita & Urbanizacion Irlanda Hts, except that homes cost less here.
Reparto Valencia, Reparto Teresita & Urbanizacion Monte Claro
Jardines de Caparra & Urbanizacion Santa Rosa
Scores across Bayamon run from about the 1st to the 5th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Bayamon's strengths and weaknesses
Bayamon lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Low property taxes is the standout, in the top 1% of cities. Affordable childcare and walkability follow.
The one real hole is the weather, near the bottom of the country. State infrastructure and low incomes 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.
Where Bayamon ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of cities
- Cheap childcare$424 a month, better than 99% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 80% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 73% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 72% of cities
Where Bayamon ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 1 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of cities
- Household income$34,236 median, better 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 Bayamon
A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bayamon home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $34,236; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Bayamon'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.
Who lives in Bayamon
Bayamon runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bayamon.
Who works in Bayamon, and how
Work in Bayamon centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Bayamon
Bayamon has more restaurants and bars per resident than 76% of cities and more parkland per resident than 82% of cities. The coast is about 10 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Bayamon and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Bayamon, month by month
Bayamon sees roughly 1 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 Bayamon
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.
Bayamon 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 against cities nationally.
Who Bayamon suits
Families
Weigh schools and safety yourself on the map to find the right neighborhoods.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Bayamon
Is Bayamon a good place to live?
It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and walkability, 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 expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $153,459. Set against a $34,236 median income, cost of living beats 50% of cities.
Is Bayamon safe?
Bayamon is safer than 2% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $798 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Bayamon?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 74. That works out to about 1 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Bayamon?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Lomas Verdes, Urbanizacion Magnolia Gdns, Urbanizacion Sierra Linda & Villa Contessa, and Urbanizacion Sierra Bayamon, Urbanizacion Rio Hondo & Extencion Villa Rica. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Bayamon with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bayamon. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bayamon 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 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bayamon: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bayamon: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bayamon: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bayamon: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bayamon 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.
- 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.