Best PlacesPonce Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Ponce 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.
Ponce Municipio is unranked among counties under the default weighting. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Its strengths are low property taxes and affordable childcare. The cost shows up in the weather, state infrastructure, and taxes.
The best neighborhoods in Ponce Municipio
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.
Ponce Municipio's strengths and weaknesses
Ponce Municipio lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Low property taxes is the standout, in the top 1% of counties. Affordable childcare and walkability follow.
The one real hole is the weather, near the bottom of the country. State infrastructure and taxes 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 Ponce Municipio ranks high
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of counties
- Cheap childcare$356 a month, better than 99% of counties
- WalkabilityBetter than 98% of counties
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of counties
- Big-city accessBetter than 91% of counties
Where Ponce 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
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Ponce Municipio
A household needs to earn about $27,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Ponce Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $24,281; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Ponce Municipio's effective rate of 0.03%, 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.
Who lives in Ponce Municipio
Ponce Municipio 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 Ponce Municipio.
Who works in Ponce Municipio, and how
Work in Ponce Municipio centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above 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 Ponce Municipio
Ponce Municipio has more restaurants and bars per resident than 71% of counties and less parkland per resident than most counties. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Ponce Municipio and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Ponce Municipio growing, and who is moving in?
Ponce Municipio has lost about 20% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from San Juan, PR.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Ponce Municipio go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Ponce Municipio, month by month
Ponce Municipio sees roughly 3 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 Ponce Municipio
The nearest airport, Mercedita, is about 4 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 50 miles away.
Ponce 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 Ponce Municipio against counties nationally.
Who Ponce Municipio suits
Families
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Retirees
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Common questions about living in Ponce Municipio
Is Ponce Municipio a good place to live?
It scores highest on low property taxes, affordable childcare, and walkability, 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 Ponce Municipio expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $113,682. Set against a $24,281 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.
Is Ponce Municipio safe?
Ponce Municipio is safer than 1% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $893 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Ponce Municipio?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 74. That works out to about 3 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of counties.
Compare Ponce Municipio with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Ponce Municipio. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Ponce 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.
Ponce Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Ponce Municipio: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Ponce Municipio: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Ponce Municipio: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Ponce Municipio: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Ponce Municipio 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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