On January29, 2026, the United States Census Bureau published the Puerto Rico CommunitySurvey (PRCS) new estimates, the data refer to the five-year period 2020-2024. Unlike the estimates of one year of information by the Survey, an important aspect of publishing the five-year periods of the survey is that estimates canbe produced for all municipalities in Puerto Rico, or areas with populations below 60,000 people.
Among the variety of topics collected in the PRCS, we address the median household incomeas ad the first (1/4) of four socioeconomic aspects. A comparison was made with theprevious period 2015-2019, which allows us to examine the variations by municipios and their distribution within the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico according to the socioeconomic characteristic.
Median Household Income by Municipalities
The measure shows the amount of income that came into the household, thus householdersand all other individuals aged 15 years or older in the household.
In the period 2015-2019, the level of income between municipalities ranged from $12 thousand to $36 thousand dollars per year, with Maricao and Guaynabo being the extreme points of the distribution, respectively. During the period 2020-2024, revenues ranged from $16,000 to $47,000 annually, with Las Marías being the onewith the lowest income and Guaynabo the one with the highest income. Regarding the change within the periods considered, it should be noted that only the municipio of Maunabo did not increase its median household income.
Among the 77 municipalities that showed an increase in household income, they can besummarized as:
Explore more details in the table with the comparison of household income between themost recent year periods, as well as the maps with the geographicaldistribution on the Institute Census Data andInformation (SDC-PR) page.
To create the “Protocol Act for the Determination of the Cause and Manner of Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events”, for the purpose of adopting a protocol for determining the cause and manner of death in cases where environmental factors related to a natural disaster or a catastrophic event contribute to the death of a person; to provide for mechanisms for collecting information on deaths related to natural disasters or catastrophic events; for the creation of a Committee Interagency for Official Disclosure of Information on Statistical Data on Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events; and for other related purposes.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics has a new president of its Board of Directors
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute (Institute) has a new president of its Board of Directors. The Board elected Dr. Javier Hernández Acosta as president, after the expiry of the term as board member of the past president, Nicolás Muñoz Muñoz. Dr. Hernández is a professor and director of the School of Arts, Design and Creative Industries at the Sacred Heart University. Similarly, Dr. Hernández is the Founder of Cultural Investment and the Center for Creative Economy, Inc., non-profit organizations that support the development of cultural and creative industries in Puerto Rico. Dr. Hernández has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 2020 and prior to that role he collaborated as a researcher on several projects of the Institute such as the World Values Survey (2018), the Innovation Survey (2015) And the Science and Technology Survey: Research and Development (2015).
Members of the Board of Directors do not earn compensation for their services. The Board is composed, in addition to Dr. Javier Hernández Acosta, Mrs. Carola Ballester Descartes, vice-president, Dr. José A. Jorge Pagán, secretary, Mr. Vicente Feliciano Pérez, Dr. Francisco E. Martínez Aponte and Mr. Manuel Laboy. This Board of Directors, as established in Act 209 of August 28, 2003, is the governing body that establishes the administrative policy of the Institute, which is led by Dr. Orville M. Disdier, Executive Director. “The Institute's relevance increases every day with the need for greater transparency and accessibility to information sources to support decision-making. It is up to us to guarantee its autonomy and fiscal sustainability so that it can continue to expand its impact. It is a great responsibility to support this management from the Board of Directors,” said Dr. Hernández, president of the Board of Directors.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute is a governmental entity with fiscal and administrative autonomy with the mission of coordinating the statistical production service of government entities. To learn more about the Institute of Statistics, you can access the website: www.estadisticas.pr.gov. On social media through Facebook (@estadisticas .pr), Instagram (@estadisticas .pr), Twitter (@EstadisticasPR) and LinkedIn (Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico) accounts.
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Date: October 5, 2021
To designate March 21 of each year as the “National Day for the Eradication of Racism and Affirmation of Afro-Descendancy”, as part of efforts to eliminate any manifestation of racial and/or ethnic discrimination from our society; to designate the week during the month of March in which the Day for the Abolition of Slavery is commemorated as the Week for the Eradication of Racism and Affirmation of Afro-Descent; to repeal Law 138-1996; and for other related purposes.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute has just released the Puerto Rico Creative Industries Report 2019.
This is the fifth publication on the subject, and is being published in the International Year of the Creative Economy, as declared by UNESCO.
Learn more at:
You can also access the following infographic:
https://infogram.com/industrias-creativas-2019-1h7g6k0mmj7x02o?live
Access the data sets at:
https://datos.estadisticas.pr/dataset/industrias-creativas-en-puerto-rico
To order the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, within a strict compliance period of three (3) months, to take appropriate steps to request that a question about deafness and hearing loss be included in the 2030 Census and the Puerto Rico Community Survey; and to establish other complementary provisions.
Statistics Institute publishes the Statistical Compendium on Higher Education in Puerto Rico: Year 2020-2021
As in the previous year, enrollment continued to decline in Puerto Rico's post-secondary university education system in 2020-2021. This publication includes a new section on “Students enrolled in distance education courses by sector”. Access the report in its entirety through the following link: Statistical Compendium of Higher Education (IPEDS)
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