Best PlacesCabo Rojo, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cabo Rojo, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Cabo Rojo 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 Cabo Rojo
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 Cabo Rojo
The parts of Cabo Rojo, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Urbanizacion Borinquen & Urbanizacion Ana Maria
Parcelas Las Margaritas
Urbanizacion Ramirez
Parcelas Elizabeth, Alturas de Puerto Real & Parcelas Puerto Real
Alturas de Joyuda
Parcelas Betances
Scores across Cabo Rojo run from about the 1st to the 2nd percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Cabo Rojo's strengths and weaknesses
Where Cabo Rojo ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of cities
- Cheap childcare$356 a month, better than 99% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 98% of cities
- QuietBetter than 90% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 77% of cities
Where Cabo Rojo 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
- Cell coverageBetter than only 1% of cities
- Household income$28,428 median, better than only 1% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Cabo Rojo
A household needs to earn about $30,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cabo Rojo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $28,428; 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 Cabo Rojo'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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Cabo Rojo
Cabo Rojo runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cabo Rojo.
Who works in Cabo Rojo, and how
Work in Cabo Rojo centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Cabo Rojo
Cabo Rojo has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of cities. The coast is about 5 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Cabo Rojo and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Cabo Rojo, month by month
Cabo Rojo 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.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 82° | 77° | 70° |
| April | 83° | 79° | 72° |
| July | 88° | 83° | 76° |
| October | 87° | 81° | 74° |
Flying in and out of Cabo Rojo
The nearest airport, Eugenio Maria De Hostos, is about 13 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 80 miles away.
Cabo Rojo 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 Cabo Rojo against cities nationally.
Who Cabo Rojo suits
Families
Weigh schools and safety yourself on the map to find the right neighborhoods.
Common questions about living in Cabo Rojo
Is Cabo Rojo 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 Cabo Rojo expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $129,477. Set against a $28,428 median income, cost of living beats 50% of cities.
Is Cabo Rojo safe?
Cabo Rojo is safer than 0% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $851 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Cabo Rojo?
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.
What are the best neighborhoods in Cabo Rojo?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Urbanizacion Borinquen & Urbanizacion Ana Maria, Parcelas Las Margaritas, and Urbanizacion Ramirez. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Cabo Rojo with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cabo Rojo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cabo Rojo 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.
Cabo Rojo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cabo Rojo: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cabo Rojo: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cabo Rojo: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cabo Rojo: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cabo Rojo 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
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