Bayamón Municipio, Puerto Rico

• Income gap: Households earn meaningfully less than the national median, which directly affects retail demand, housing absorption, and tax base.
• Elevated poverty: At 34.3%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Aging population: Median age of 44 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 10,657 workers (26.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $29,003. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 10,950 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Wholesale Trade averages $46,326 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $17,874, a 2.6x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods concentrates at 5.28x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 10 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 54.6% 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.
• High home ownership: 70.1% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 15.6% of housing units are vacant, below the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 18.9% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 75.9% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 11.4%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 8.5% of the vacant stock, or 1.3% of all housing units against the 15.6% 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 $18,065 can pay without cost burden (~$452/mo), and 38.1% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 20.6% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 22.1% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 47.8% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 1.1% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: the 6 largest of 15 institutions in Bayamón Municipio award 11,343 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Bayamón Municipio shows strong potential for merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods attraction, with a 5.28x concentration and 3,829 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 22.1% 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 54.6% of it, with merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods the largest single sub-sector at 24.7%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.