Best PlacesFort Buchanan, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fort Buchanan, 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.
Fort Buchanan 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 Fort Buchanan
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.
Fort Buchanan's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fort Buchanan ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- Cheap childcare$435 a month, better than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 97% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 93% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 92% of towns
Where Fort Buchanan ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 0 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
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fort Buchanan
A household needs to earn about $52,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fort Buchanan home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $56,573, 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 Fort Buchanan's effective rate of 0.11%, 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 Fort Buchanan
Fort Buchanan runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Fort Buchanan.
Who works in Fort Buchanan, and how
Work in Fort Buchanan centers on hospitality & food and professional & technical. Unemployment is low.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Fort Buchanan
Fort Buchanan has more restaurants and bars per resident than 95% of towns. The coast is about 6 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Fort Buchanan and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fort Buchanan, month by month
Fort Buchanan sees roughly 0 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 Fort Buchanan
The nearest airport, Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci, is about 4 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 9 miles away.
Fort Buchanan 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 Fort Buchanan against towns nationally.
Common questions about living in Fort Buchanan
Is Fort Buchanan a good place to live?
It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and biking, 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 Fort Buchanan expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $221,492. Set against a $56,573 median income, cost of living beats 50% of towns.
Is Fort Buchanan safe?
Fort Buchanan is safer than 1% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,113 per resident a year.
Compare Fort Buchanan with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fort Buchanan. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fort Buchanan 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.
Fort Buchanan detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fort Buchanan: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fort Buchanan: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fort Buchanan: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fort Buchanan: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fort Buchanan 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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