Best PlacesYabucoa Municipio, PR Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in Yabucoa 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.
Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa 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.
Yabucoa Municipio's strengths and weaknesses
Where Yabucoa 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 92% of counties
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 76% of counties
Where Yabucoa Municipio ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 2 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$23,120 median, better than only 1% of counties
What it costs to buy a home in Yabucoa Municipio
A household needs to earn about $23,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yabucoa Municipio home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $23,120, 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 Yabucoa Municipio's effective rate of 0.02%, 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 Yabucoa Municipio
Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio.
Who works in Yabucoa Municipio, and how
Work in Yabucoa Municipio centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 92%
- Work from home 0%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Yabucoa Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most counties. The coast is about 8 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Yabucoa Municipio and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Yabucoa Municipio growing, and who is moving in?
Yabucoa Municipio has lost about 15% of its population over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the San Juan, PR metro.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Yabucoa Municipio go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Yabucoa Municipio, month by month
Yabucoa Municipio sees roughly 2 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.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 83° | 77° | 71° |
| April | 87° | 80° | 74° |
| July | 90° | 84° | 79° |
| October | 89° | 82° | 76° |
Flying in and out of Yabucoa Municipio
The nearest airport, Jose Aponte De La Torre, is about 20 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Luis Munoz Marin International, about 27 miles away.
Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio against counties nationally.
Who Yabucoa Municipio suits
Families
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Retirees
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Common questions about living in Yabucoa Municipio
Is Yabucoa 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 Yabucoa Municipio expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $97,559. Set against a $23,120 median income, cost of living beats 50% of counties.
Is Yabucoa Municipio safe?
Yabucoa Municipio is safer than 2% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $807 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Yabucoa Municipio?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 83 with lows near 71. That works out to about 2 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of counties.
Compare Yabucoa Municipio with other counties
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yabucoa Municipio. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yabucoa 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.
Yabucoa Municipio detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Yabucoa Municipio: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Yabucoa Municipio: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Yabucoa Municipio: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Yabucoa Municipio: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Yabucoa 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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