Culebra 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 25.7%, 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 17.6 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: Accommodation and Food Services employs 109 workers (88.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $23,193. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 230 and is counted separately.

• Top specialization: Accommodation concentrates at 7.40x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 3 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 83.2% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: visitor economy. 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 3.5x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• Elevated vacancy: 66% of housing units are vacant, above the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 68.5% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 62.4% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 18.5% of the vacant stock, or 12.2% of all housing units against the 66% headline vacancy rate. That is the figure to plan an incoming employer's housing against, and the gap between the two is the redevelopment and conversion opportunity.
• Affordable rent tiers: 3 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $19,509 can pay without cost burden (~$488/mo), and 12.9% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 58.9% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 16.4% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Culebra Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Culebra Municipio shows strong potential for accommodation attraction, with a 7.40x concentration and 29 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

Most of the employment across the concentrated sub-sectors traces back to a single source of demand. Visitor economy accounts for 83.2% of it, with food services and drinking places the largest single sub-sector at 61.1%. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.