Best PlacesCamuy, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

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


The best neighborhoods in Camuy

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Camuy area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Camuy's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Affordable childcare
Top 10%Clean air
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Camuy with other towns.

Where Camuy ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$384 a month, better than 99% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 92% of towns
  • WalkabilityBetter than 88% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 82% of towns

Where Camuy ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 1 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Household income$30,102 median, better than only 3% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Camuy

A household needs to earn about $25,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Camuy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $30,102, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$25,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$576
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $106,007 home
Median rent
$635
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$540
Property tax$0
Homeowners insurance$35

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 Camuy's effective rate of 0.00%, 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 5 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 Camuy

Camuy runs older than the country.

Median age
45
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older22%

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


Who works in Camuy, and how

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

Work from home
7%
below the national average
Unemployment
4.5%
about the national average

Largest industries

Health care & social17%
Retail trade14%
Manufacturing11%
Public administration8%
Other services8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 91%
  • Work from home 7%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Camuy

Camuy has more restaurants and bars per resident than 76% of towns. The coast is about 4 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Camuy and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
112
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 46.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 76% of towns
Coffee shops
14
about 5.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 82% of towns
To the coast
4 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Camuy, month by month

Camuy sees roughly 1 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January82°77°70°
April83°79°72°
July88°83°76°
October87°81°74°

Flying in and out of Camuy

The nearest airport, Rafael Hernandez, is about 18 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 56 miles away.

Nearest airport
BQN
Rafael Hernandez, about 18 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
170th-busiest in the US, 9 nonstop destinations
Average drive
25 min
from the area, with no traffic

Camuy 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 Camuy against towns nationally.


Who Camuy suits

Families

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

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Remote workers

7% 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 Camuy

Is Camuy 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 Camuy expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $106,007. Set against a $30,102 median income, cost of living beats 50% of towns.

Is Camuy safe?

Camuy is safer than 7% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $642 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Camuy?

July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 70. That works out to about 1 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of towns.



Sources and methodology

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

Camuy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Camuy 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.