Gurabo 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 29%, the rate is in economically distressed territory and supports federal funding narratives (CDFI, NMTC, EDA).
• Aging population: Median age of 42 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management employs 2,254 workers (31.6% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $28,290. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,108 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $72,499 while Accommodation and Food Services averages $16,119, a 4.5x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Educational Services concentrates at 5.81x 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 71.9% of the employment across them depends on one source of demand: education 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 3.8x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 77.2% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 12% of housing units are vacant, below the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 15.6% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 78.3% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 9.5%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 6% of the vacant stock, or 0.7% of all housing units against the 12% headline vacancy rate. Absorbable supply for an incoming employer is thin, 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 $26,560 can pay without cost burden (~$664/mo), and 22.7% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 56.7% labor force participation. The labor force itself fell 9.8% between 2019 and 2024, from 21,718 to 19,588.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in Gurabo Municipio awards 2,248 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

Gurabo Municipio shows strong potential for educational services attraction, with a 5.81x concentration and 1,062 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. Education economy accounts for 71.9% of it, all of it in educational services. Recruitment that widens the demand base changes that exposure; recruitment inside the same base deepens it.