Best PlacesNaguabo Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in Naguabo Municipio, 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.

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Naguabo 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 Naguabo Municipio

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Naguabo 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.

The best areas in Naguabo Municipio

The parts of Naguabo Municipio, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the county.

#1

Rio Blanco

Fewer homes sit empty, more adults hold degrees, and more households have young kids.

WorseBetter
1st nationally
#2

Naguabo & Duque

Streets are more car-dependent.

WorseBetter
1st nationally
#3

Ceiba

WorseBetter
1st nationally

Scores across Naguabo Municipio run from about the 1st to the 1st percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.


Naguabo Municipio's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 3%Affordable childcare
Top 10%Big-city access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Naguabo Municipio with other counties.

Where Naguabo Municipio ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of counties
  • Cheap childcare$388 a month, better than 99% of counties
  • Big-city accessBetter than 92% of counties
  • Air qualityBetter than 90% of counties
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 59% of counties

Where Naguabo Municipio ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 3 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$24,290 median, better than only 1% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Naguabo Municipio

A household needs to earn about $25,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Naguabo Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $24,290; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$25,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$583
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $107,264 home
Median rent
$557
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$547
Property tax$1
Homeowners insurance$36

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 Naguabo Municipio's effective rate of 0.01%, 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 Naguabo Municipio

Naguabo Municipio's age mix sits close to the national median.

Median age
41
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
20%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3424%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6418%
65 and older20%

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


Who works in Naguabo Municipio, and how

Work in Naguabo Municipio centers on hospitality & food and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.

Work from home
7%
below the national average
Unemployment
8.2%
above the national average

Largest industries

Hospitality & food14%
Construction13%
Manufacturing12%
Retail trade10%
Admin & support services10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 85%
  • Work from home 7%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 8%

Life in Naguabo Municipio

The coast is about 7 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Naguabo Municipio, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
113
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 48.3 per 10,000 residents, more than 56% of counties
Coffee shops
6
about 2.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 13% of counties
To the coast
7 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

Is Naguabo Municipio growing, and who is moving in?

Naguabo Municipio has lost about 4% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the San Juan, PR metro.

Population growth
-4%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
25,761
down from 26,763
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the San Juan, PR metro762 / yr
New York, NY157 / yr
Los Angeles, CA92 / yr
Buffalo, NY26 / yr
Philadelphia, PA23 / yr

Where people leaving Naguabo Municipio go

The rest of the San Juan, PR metro270 / yr
Rochester, NY117 / yr
Ocala, FL113 / yr
Miami, FL108 / yr
Atlanta, GA67 / yr

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


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

Naguabo Municipio sees roughly 3 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 83, with lows near 71. No month averages between 55 and 75 degrees.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January83°77°71°
April87°80°74°
July90°84°79°
October89°82°76°

Flying in and out of Naguabo Municipio

The nearest airport, Jose Aponte De La Torre, is about 7 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 22 miles away.

Nearest airport
RVR
Jose Aponte De La Torre, about 7 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
338th-busiest in the US
Average drive
10 min
from the area, with no traffic

Naguabo 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 Naguabo Municipio against counties nationally.


Who Naguabo Municipio 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 Naguabo Municipio

Is Naguabo Municipio a good place to live?

It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and big-city access, 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 Naguabo Municipio expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $107,264. Set against a $24,290 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.

Is Naguabo Municipio safe?

Naguabo Municipio is safer than 3% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $729 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Naguabo Municipio?

July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 83 with lows near 71. That works out to about 3 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of counties.

What are the best neighborhoods in Naguabo Municipio?

Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Rio Blanco, Naguabo & Duque, and Ceiba. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.



Sources and methodology

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

Naguabo Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Naguabo 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.