San Sebastián 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 $6,377 (24.2%) under the Puerto Rico median, so statewide income averages overstate local household buying power.
• Elevated poverty: At 49.7%, 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 14.0 pts, relevant for advanced-services attraction strategy.
• Aging population: Median age of 47 is materially above the U.S. norm; succession planning and senior-services demand are real factors.

• Largest private-sector industry: Retail Trade employs 1,439 workers (36.9% of tracked sectors), at an average wage of $22,979. Every industry figure on this page is private sector; government employs a further 1,454 and is counted separately.
• Wage stratification: Finance and Insurance averages $40,420 while Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting averages $11,836, a 3.4x spread in the same local economy, with implications for workforce development and talent strategy.

• Top specialization: Animal Production and Aquaculture concentrates at 14.42x the national norm, top-decile concentration, the kind of signature sector that defines a region's economic identity to site selectors.
• Cluster depth: 14 sub-sectors register LQ ≥ 1.5, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.2% 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 5.8x is well above the ~4.1x national average; attainable workforce housing may be a recruitment friction.
• High home ownership: 74.7% owner-occupied; rental supply may be tight for incoming workers.
• Elevated vacancy: 23.9% of housing units are vacant, above the Puerto Rico rate of 21%, and down from 26.1% in 2019.
• Mostly second homes: seasonal, recreational and occasional-use units are 25.7% of vacant units, so the headline rate is not available supply.
• Genuinely available supply: units listed for rent or for sale are 18.2% of the vacant stock, or 4.4% of all housing units against the 23.9% 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.
• Rent affordability gap: None of the 5 HUD Fair Market Rent bedroom sizes sit below what a household on the median renter income of $14,479 can pay without cost burden (~$362/mo), and 29.4% of renter households are already cost-burdened, 11.8% severely so; workforce housing cost burden warrants attention.

• Succession risk is real: 24.4% of working-age residents are 55-64. Plan for retirements over the next decade and pair attraction strategy with talent retention.
• Low participation: 38.3% labor force participation against a labor force that grew 13.7% between 2019 and 2024, so workforce development programs may unlock additional supply.
• Talent pipeline: 1 institution in San Sebastián Municipio awards 347 credentials a year. Employers drawing from a wider labor shed should read this alongside institutions outside the county, which this page does not aggregate.

San Sebastián Municipio shows strong potential for animal production and aquaculture attraction, with a 14.42x concentration and 147 jobs in this sub-sector. It ranks in the top decile nationally. Near-term succession risk is elevated, with 24.4% of the working-age population within 10 years of retirement age.

The concentrated base spans animal production and aquaculture, crop production, and health and personal care retailers, and no single source of demand accounts for more than 44.2% of the employment across them, the largest being resident household spending. Supply-chain recruitment has more than one demand base to work from.