Best PlacesMoca Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

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


The best neighborhoods in Moca Municipio

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Moca Municipio 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.

Moca Municipio'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 Moca Municipio with other counties.

Where Moca Municipio ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of counties
  • Cheap childcare$348 a month, better than 99% of counties
  • Air qualityBetter than 94% of counties
  • Big-city accessBetter than 84% of counties
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 62% of counties

Where Moca Municipio ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 1 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of counties
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 1% of counties
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of counties
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of counties
  • Household income$23,598 median, better than only 1% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Moca Municipio

A household needs to earn about $32,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Moca Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $23,598, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$32,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$748
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $136,849 home
Median rent
$537
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$698
Property tax$5
Homeowners insurance$46

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 Moca Municipio'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 8 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 Moca Municipio

Moca Municipio runs older than the country.

Median age
44
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
21%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3422%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6420%
65 and older21%

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


Who works in Moca Municipio, and how

Work in Moca Municipio centers on retail trade and public administration. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.9%
above the national average

Largest industries

Retail trade14%
Public administration10%
Health care & social10%
Education9%
Manufacturing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 87%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Moca Municipio

The coast is about 8 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Moca Municipio, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
170
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 45.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 49% of counties
Coffee shops
18
about 4.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 46% of counties
To the coast
8 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

Is Moca Municipio growing, and who is moving in?

Moca Municipio has lost about 13% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Aguadilla, PR metro.

Population growth
-13%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
34,891
down from 40,093
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the Aguadilla, PR metro669 / yr
San Juan, PR91 / yr
Philadelphia, PA87 / yr
Washington, DC61 / yr
Cleveland, OH37 / yr

Where people leaving Moca Municipio go

The rest of the Aguadilla, PR metro683 / yr
San Juan, PR163 / yr
Miami, FL119 / yr
Lakeland, FL90 / yr
Orlando, FL60 / yr

Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.


What the weather is like in Moca Municipio, month by month

Moca Municipio 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 Moca Municipio

The nearest airport, Rafael Hernandez, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 71 miles away.

Nearest airport
BQN
Rafael Hernandez, about 8 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
170th-busiest in the US, 9 nonstop destinations
Average drive
12 min
from the area, with no traffic

Moca Municipio 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 Moca Municipio against counties nationally.


Who Moca Municipio suits

Families

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

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Remote workers

8% already work from home.

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Retirees

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Common questions about living in Moca Municipio

Is Moca Municipio 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 Moca Municipio expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $136,849. Set against a $23,598 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.

Is Moca Municipio safe?

Moca Municipio is safer than 2% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $778 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Moca Municipio?

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 counties.



Sources and methodology

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

Moca Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Moca Municipio 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. U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
  3. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  4. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  5. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  6. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  7. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  8. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  9. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  10. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  11. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  13. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.