Juncos 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 34.6%, 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 12.1 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• 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: Manufacturing employs 4,211 workers (63.1% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $89,293. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,275 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Manufacturing averages $89,293 while Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting averages $19,091, a 4.7x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 3.02x the national norm, strong concentration that anchors the local economy and supports supply-chain attraction strategy.
• Cluster depth: 3 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.6% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Demand reaches this base from more than one market rather than from a single one.

• In line with national: Home value to income ratio of 4.0x sits near the ~4.1x national average; affordability is neither a clear advantage nor a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 70.4% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Vacancy level: 14.7% of housing units are vacant, below the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 19.5% in 2019.
• Vacancy composition: the largest vacancy category is other vacant at 80.4% of vacant units, with seasonal and recreational use at 9.5%.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 9.4% of the vacant stock, or 1.4% of all housing units against the 14.7% 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 $18,405 can pay without cost burden (~$460/mo), and 24.6% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 5.6% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Low participation: 52.1% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 3.2% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: no college, university, or technical school is located in Juncos Municipio per the IPEDS institutional directory, so any training pipeline serving it runs through institutions outside the county.

Juncos Municipio shows meaningful potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 3.02x concentration and 42 jobs in this sub-sector.

The concentrated base spans animal production and aquaculture, health and personal care retailers, and construction of buildings, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.6% of the employment across them, the largest being construction and real estate cycle. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.