Best PlacesCaguas, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Caguas, 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.
Caguas is unranked among cities under the default weighting. The coast is about 19 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 Caguas
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 Caguas
The parts of Caguas, 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.
Urbanizacion Turabo Gdns, Urbanizacion Bonneville Hts & Urbanizacion El Valle At Los Prados
Fewer homes sit empty, more adults hold degrees, and it is quieter.
Alturas Del Turabo, Urbanizacion Sabanera De Rio & Villa Borinquen Los Prados
Incomes run higher, though streets are more car-dependent.
Urbanizacion Las Veredas, Villa De Castro & Urbanizacion Praderas
Biking is better.
Urbanizacion Santa Elvira, Urbanizacion Condado Moderno & Urbanizacion Villa Blanca
More households have young kids, though disaster risk is higher.
Residencial Bairoa, Urbanizacion Mirador De Bairoa & Valle Tolima
Prices have run up less.
Northwestern Caguas
Scores close to Residencial Bairoa, Urbanizacion Mirador De Bairoa & Valle Tolima, except that homes cost less here.
Estancias Del Bosque, Villa Nueva & Villa Del Rey 4
Urbanizacion Borinquen Valley & Villa Del Rey 1
Urbanizacion Mariolga, Barriada Morales & Urbanizacion Bonneville Gdns
Scores close to Urbanizacion Borinquen Valley & Villa Del Rey 1, except that crime runs higher here.
Scores across Caguas run from about the 1st to the 6th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Caguas' strengths and weaknesses
Caguas 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 clean air 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 Caguas ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of cities
- Cheap childcare$414 a month, better than 99% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 98% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 72% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 68% of cities
Where Caguas ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 3 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of cities
- Household income$36,334 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 Caguas
A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Caguas home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $36,334, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Caguas' effective rate of 0.07%, 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 Caguas
Caguas runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Caguas.
Who works in Caguas, and how
Work in Caguas centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Caguas
Caguas has more restaurants and bars per resident than 86% of cities and more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. The coast is about 19 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Caguas and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Caguas, month by month
Caguas sees roughly 3 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 85, with lows near 73. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 85° | 78° | 73° |
| April | 87° | 79° | 74° |
| July | 90° | 83° | 78° |
| October | 90° | 83° | 78° |
Flying in and out of Caguas
Luis Munoz Marin International sits about 15 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.7 million passengers in 2025, with 88 nonstop destinations.
Caguas 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 Caguas against cities nationally.
Who Caguas 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 Caguas
Is Caguas a good place to live?
It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and clean air, 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 Caguas expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $154,921. Set against a $36,334 median income, cost of living beats 50% of cities.
Is Caguas safe?
Caguas is safer than 2% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $791 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Caguas?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 85 with lows near 73. That works out to about 3 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Caguas?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Urbanizacion Turabo Gdns, Urbanizacion Bonneville Hts & Urbanizacion El Valle At Los Prados, Alturas Del Turabo, Urbanizacion Sabanera De Rio & Villa Borinquen Los Prados, and Urbanizacion Las Veredas, Villa De Castro & Urbanizacion Praderas. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Caguas with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Caguas. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Caguas 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.
Caguas detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Caguas: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Caguas: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Caguas: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Caguas: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Caguas 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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