Florida 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 $3,965 (15.1%) under the Puerto Rico median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 49%, 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 13.4 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.

• Largest private-sector industry: Construction employs 185 workers (52.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $26,166. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 610 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Construction averages $26,166 while Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting averages $12,642, a 2.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Construction of Buildings concentrates at 20.77x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 4 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, but 65.8% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: construction and real estate cycle. 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 5.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 73.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $18,222 can pay without cost burden (~$456/mo), and 24.9% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 14.8% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Low participation: 46.9% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 8.6% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Florida Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Florida Municipio shows strong potential for construction of buildings attraction, with a 20.77x concentration and 158 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. Construction and real estate cycle accounts for 65.8% of it, all of it in construction of buildings. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.