Isabela Municipio, PR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 18.48, -67.01.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
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- 47th pct · 1,689th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 67th pct · 26th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median 4,800
- 83rd pct · 2nd of 7 counties in the Aguadilla metro · median 6,440
- 0th pct · 3,199th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 28th pct · 56th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median $553
- 66th pct · 3rd of 7 counties in the Aguadilla metro · median $501
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- Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
- counties in the Aguadilla metro: not published this period
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
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 Aguadilla 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 Aguadilla 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 #
7,469 jobs at 611 employers (2026 Q1); -1.1% jobs and -2.1% average weekly wage over the year
- 47th pct · 1,689th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 67th pct · 26th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median 4,800
- 83rd pct · 2nd of 7 counties in the Aguadilla metro · median 6,440
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Isabela Municipio, PR | 7,469 jobs · $503/wk · -1.1% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 1,687 | $475 | 2.32 | -1.0% |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,332 | $374 | 1.98 | +7.2% |
| Health care and social assistance | 661 | $480 | 0.59 | +7.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 456 | $880 | 0.89 | +0.0% |
| Construction | 426 | $461 | 1.09 | +16.4% |
| Administrative and waste services | 371 | $444 | 0.87 | +0.0% |
| Manufacturing | 235 | $384 | 0.39 | +23.7% |
| Finance and insurance | 226 | $906 | 0.74 | +14.1% |
| Other services | 135 | $459 | 0.60 | -6.2% |
| Educational services | 82 | $357 | 0.51 | -9.9% |
| Wholesale trade | 67 | $545 | 0.23 | -4.3% |
| Information | 23 | $1,099 | 0.17 | -4.2% |
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 #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
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 #
139 gauges · 0 flooding · 0 with quality panels · 39 stale
Sites found: 139, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-182743067004200 | flow 27.4 ft³/s | 2 km |
| USGS-50011080 | flow 24.1 ft³/s · STALE | 3 km |
| USGS-50011085 | flow 19.0 ft³/s | 3 km |
| USGS-50011095 | flow 12.0 ft³/s · STALE | 4 km |
| USGS-50011400 | flow 27.0 ft³/s · STALE | 6 km |
| USGS-182830067035900 | flow 28.5 ft³/s | 6 km |
| USGS-182827067040500 | stage 409.6 ft | 6 km |
| USGS-50011180 | stage 1.63 ft | 11 km |
| USGS-50011200 | flow 276.0 ft³/s | 13 km |
| USGS-50011000 | flow 51.3 ft³/s | 13 km |
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 #
58 wells in 3 named aquifers: Other aquifers, North Coast Limestone aquifer system (Puerto Rico), South Coast aquifer (Puerto Rico)
Sites found: 58, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-182925067031100 | depth 293.1 ft · 2000-08-10 | 4 km |
| USGS-182626067023800 | depth 33.6 ft · 1987-11-23 | 6 km |
| North Coast Limestone aquifer system (Puerto Rico) | depth 71.0 ft · 2008-09-17 | 9 km |
| USGS-182647066552400 | depth 396.2 ft · 2011-05-16 | 11 km |
| SAN SEBASTIAN WELL, SAN SEBASTIAN, PR | depth 27.9 ft · 1992-10-14 | 17 km |
| North Coast Limestone aquifer system (Puerto Rico) | depth 4.45 ft · 2009-09-30 | 17 km |
| USGS-182856066510900 | depth 99.1 ft · 1987-04-01 | 17 km |
| USGS-182723066511200 | depth 328.7 ft · 2002-08-21 | 17 km |
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 (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$239.0 m in deposits at 1 offices of 1 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 10,000, highly concentrated. $185.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $179.1 m, grants $4.4 m), $24,812 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Banco Popular de Puerto Rico | $239.0 m · 100.0% share · 1 office | |
| Isabela, PR | $185.3 m FY2026 · $24,812/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $178.7 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banco Popular de Puerto Rico | $239,000,000 | 100.0% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 10,000 across 1 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 1 banks with deposits in the county = 100.0² = 10,000
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.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $143,999,734 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $34,648,175 |
| Department of Transportation | $4,475,196 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $1,312,325 |
| National Science Foundation | $500,000 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $397,429 |
| Department of Agriculture | $41,906 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $39,230 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $8,033 |
| Small Business Administration | $0 |
| Department of Defense | -$18,535 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | -$85,850 |
That is $24,812 per covered job, against 7,469 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $185.3 m / 7,469 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $24,812
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.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 6.00 | 2026-09-22 | -14.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 6,830.00 | 2026-08-01 | +7.4% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -88,576.00 | 2026-07-01 | -24.4% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
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 #
Isabela Municipio, PR: 8 findings, 3 at a watch level and 5 noted
watchIsabela Municipio, PR's average weekly wage is -2.1% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.avgWeeklyWage = -2.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchIsabela Municipio, PR's covered employment is -1.1% 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.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -1.1 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchIsabela Municipio, PR's momentum index is -0.36, 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 = -0.35909090909090907 <= -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
noteIsabela Municipio, PR's average weekly wage was 2.1% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -2.1 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteIsabela Municipio, PR's covered employment was 1.1% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -1.1 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
Read all 8 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.