Jayuya 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 $4,501 (17.1%) under the Puerto Rico median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 46.9%, 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 14.3 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 43 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Manufacturing employs 863 workers (53.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $45,055. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,191 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $45,055 while Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting averages $11,100, a 4.1x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Crop Production concentrates at 16.73x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 6 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• Stretched market: Home value to income ratio of 5.3x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• Vacancy level: 19% of housing units are vacant, below the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 21.6% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 41.5% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 12.2% of the vacant stock, or 2.3% of all housing units against the 19% 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: 1 of 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $16,800 can pay without cost burden (~$420/mo), and 31.8% of renter households are measured as cost-burdened.

• Low participation: 42.3% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 35.8% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Jayuya Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Jayuya Municipio shows strong potential for crop production attraction, with a 16.73x concentration and 133 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally.

The concentrated base spans crop production, construction of buildings, and animal production and aquaculture, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 45% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.