Cayey Municipio, PR

Home values #

No Zillow home value index for this area

• US counties: not published this period
• Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
• counties in the San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas metro: not published this period

Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.

Rents #

No rent index for this area

• US counties: not published this period
• Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
• counties in the San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas metro: not published this period

Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).

What the typical home costs to carry #

Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.

Jobs & wages #

9,849 jobs at 520 employers (2026 Q1); -3.2% jobs and -4.8% average weekly wage over the year

• 54th pct · 1,452nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 79th pct · 17th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median 4,800
• 71st pct · 12th of 40 counties in the San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas metro · median 6,531

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.

Drought #

D1 moderate drought

Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.

US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.

Reservoirs #

No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)

Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.

Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.

Stream gauges #

231 gauges · 0 flooding · 5 with quality panels averaging 80 % · 53 stale

Sites found: 231, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.

Groundwater #

123 wells in 2 named aquifers: Other aquifers, South Coast aquifer (Puerto Rico)

Sites found: 123, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.

USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.

Water stress #

low (0.23)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 + 0.2×0.20 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$705.1 m in deposits at 4 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,214, highly concentrated. $247.8 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $231.5 m, grants $16.3 m), $25,162 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 4,214 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 48.3² + 42.4² + 9.3² = 4,214

FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.

Federal obligations #

USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.

That is $25,162 per covered job, against 9,849 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $247.8 m / 9,849 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $25,162

USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.

National context, not this county #

These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.

The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.

What changed #

Cayey Municipio, PR: 11 findings, 1 at an alert level, 4 at a watch level and 6 noted

1. alertCayey Municipio, PR's covered employment is -3.2% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • test: jobs.yoy.emp = -3.2 <= -3

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level

2. watchCayey Municipio, PR's average weekly wage is -4.8% against a year earlier, a watch level here: average weekly wage below the same quarter a year earlier, before inflation (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • test: jobs.yoy.avgWeeklyWage = -4.8 < 0

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level

3. watchCayey Municipio, PR's covered employment is -3.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • test: jobs.yoy.emp = -3.2 < 0

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level

4. watchCayey Municipio, PR's momentum index is -0.91, a watch level here: momentum index in the cooling band (the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Show the arithmetic

   • test: momentum = -0.9090909090909091 <= -0.25
   • momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)

   the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level

5. watchCayey Municipio, PR's average weekly wage of $599 scores 1 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 60 across Puerto Rico counties, a gap of 58 points.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 58 = |1 across US counties - 60 across Puerto Rico counties|

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

Read all 11 findings in the full brief

Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.