Aibonito 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 $4,553 (17.3%) under the Puerto Rico median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 46.6%, 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 12.2 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 48 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Health Care and Social Assistance employs 1,768 workers (38.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $38,418. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,176 and is counted separately.

• Top specialization: Food Manufacturing concentrates at 7.69x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 5 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.5% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.7x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 75.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 10.5% of housing units are vacant, below the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 13.3% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 69% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 17.2%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 13.8% of the vacant stock, or 1.5% of all housing units against the 10.5% 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 $13,582 can pay without cost burden (~$340/mo), and 30.1% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 19.6% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 26.6% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 37.8% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 10.6% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Aibonito Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Aibonito Municipio shows strong potential for food manufacturing attraction, with a 7.69x concentration and 540 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 26.6% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans food manufacturing, crop production, and health and personal care retailers, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45.5% of the employment across them, the largest being goods manufacturing. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.