Yauco Municipio, PR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 18.09, -66.86.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
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- Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
- counties in the Ponce metro: not published this period
- US counties: not published this period
- Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
- counties in the Ponce metro: not published this period
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- Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
- counties in the Ponce metro: not published this period
- 42nd pct · 1,838th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 55th pct · 35th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median 4,800
- 60th pct · 3rd of 6 counties in the Ponce metro · median 4,949
- 1st pct · 3,183rd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 49th pct · 40th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median $553
- 0th pct · 6th of 6 counties in the Ponce metro · median $596
- US counties: not published this period
- Puerto Rico counties: not published this period
- counties in the Ponce 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 Ponce 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 Ponce 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 #
6,199 jobs at 469 employers (2026 Q1); -2.6% jobs and +4.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 42nd pct · 1,838th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 55th pct · 35th of 78 Puerto Rico counties · median 4,800
- 60th pct · 3rd of 6 counties in the Ponce metro · median 4,949
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Yauco Municipio, PR | 6,199 jobs · $549/wk · -2.6% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 1,211 | $851 | 2.43 | -2.6% |
| Retail trade | 1,134 | $371 | 1.88 | -2.9% |
| Accommodation and food services | 781 | $294 | 1.40 | +1.4% |
| Health care and social assistance | 673 | $560 | 0.72 | -9.1% |
| Finance and insurance | 198 | $963 | 0.78 | +1.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 110 | $375 | 0.31 | +31.0% |
| Educational services | 92 | $411 | 0.69 | -3.2% |
| Professional and technical services | 57 | $463 | 0.13 | -9.5% |
| Real estate and rental | 43 | $675 | 0.45 | -15.7% |
| Wholesale trade | 31 | $286 | 0.13 | -41.5% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 21 | $258 | 0.21 | -30.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld |
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 #
D2 severe 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 #
Surface water layer not loaded
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 #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, 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 #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, 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 #
high (0.50)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$418.9 m in deposits at 3 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,693, highly concentrated. $156.3 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $147.6 m, grants $8.7 m), $25,214 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Banco Popular de Puerto Rico | $263.0 m · 62.8% share · 1 office | |
| FirstBank Puerto Rico | $100.7 m · 24.0% share · 1 office | |
| Oriental Bank | $55.2 m · 13.2% share · 1 office | |
| Yauco, PR | $156.3 m FY2026 · $25,214/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $146.9 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banco Popular de Puerto Rico | $263,000,000 | 62.8% | 1 |
| FirstBank Puerto Rico | $100,746,000 | 24.0% | 1 |
| Oriental Bank | $55,162,000 | 13.2% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 4,693 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 = 62.8² + 24.0² + 13.2² = 4,693
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 | $125,069,282 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $21,749,792 |
| Department of Transportation | $8,656,404 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $443,417 |
| Department of Agriculture | $192,520 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $114,646 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $73,194 |
| Department of Defense | $0 |
That is $25,214 per covered job, against 6,199 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $156.3 m / 6,199 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $25,214
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 | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| 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 #
Yauco Municipio, PR: 7 findings, 2 at a watch level and 5 noted
watchYauco Municipio, PR's covered employment is -2.6% 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 = -2.6 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchYauco Municipio, PR's average weekly wage of $549 scores 1 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 49 across Puerto Rico counties, a gap of 48 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 48 = |1 across US counties - 49 across Puerto Rico counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteYauco Municipio, PR's average weekly wage was 4.2% higher 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
- +4.2 % = 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
noteYauco Municipio, PR's covered employment was 2.6% 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
- -2.6 % = 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
noteYauco Municipio, PR's average weekly wage of $549 ranks 6th of 6 counties in the Ponce metro, against a median of $596.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 0 on the 0-to-100 scale across 6 counties in the Ponce metro that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 7 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.