Adjuntas Municipio, Puerto Rico

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Below the state median: Median household income runs $6,748 (25.7%) under the Puerto Rico median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 60.9%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Talent gap: Bachelor's-or-higher attainment trails the national average by 17.8 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 45 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 240 workers (48.7% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $20,303. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 664 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Administrative and Support and Waste Management averages $29,165 while Transportation and Warehousing averages $10,689, a 2.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Building Material and Garden Supply Retailers concentrates at 4.73x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 7 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 51% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: resident household spending. Read the count as depth within that single demand base rather than as spread across separate ones.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 23.5% of housing units are vacant, above the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 23.9% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 76.7% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 20%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 3.3% of the vacant stock, or 0.8% of all housing units against the 23.5% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $14,570 can pay without cost burden (~$364/mo), and 27.6% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 14% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 24.5% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 40.5% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 6% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Adjuntas Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Adjuntas Municipio shows meaningful potential for building material and garden supply retailers attraction, with a 4.73x concentration and 50 jobs in this sub-sector. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.5% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Resident household spending accounts for 51% of it, with ambulatory health care services the largest single sub-sector at 36.4%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.