Puerto Rico

State, USPS PR · 18.22, -66.47

5 findings fired for Puerto Rico this run, against covered employment of 944,473 in 2026 Q1.

Typical home value
not published
  • US states: not published this period

Zillow Home Value Index, state file: the middle third of the market, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Home value, 1-yr
not published
  • US states: not published this period

Zillow's own twelve-month change on the state row.

Jobs
944,473
as of 2026 Q1
  • 29th pct · 37th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777

BLS QCEW covered employment, third month of the quarter, all ownerships.

Average weekly wage
$724
as of 2026 Q1
  • 0th pct · 52nd of 52 US states · median $1,416

Total quarterly wages divided by average employment and by thirteen weeks; one covered job, not a household.

Establishments
52,890
as of 2026 Q1
  • 15th pct · 44th of 52 US states · median 161,279

BLS QCEW reporting units, all ownerships.

Jobs, over the year
-0.8%
as of 2026 Q1
  • 13th pct · 45th of 52 US states · median -0.2%

BLS's own published over-the-year change. The newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so this is their figure, not a subtraction of ours.

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 #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02the publisher answered but has no row for this state in the release this page read

No Zillow home value index for this area

  • US states: 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.

Rent #

not applicableretrieved 2026-10-02Zillow's rent index is not read at state scale by this app: the state assembler is handed a null rent table, so typical rent and price-to-rent are structurally absent here rather than missing this month. Both are published per county and per metro area, and the county and metro pages print them.

Rather than print an empty row that suggests a number could arrive, the rows are omitted and the reason is stated. The rent figures for this state's counties are on their own pages.

Jobs & wages #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-02

944,473 jobs at 52,890 employers (2026 Q1); -0.8% jobs and +3.4% average weekly wage over the year

  • 29th pct · 37th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
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.
ItemValueDistance
Puerto Rico944,473 jobs · $724/wk · -0.8% YoY
NAICS sector mix, BLS QCEW 2026 Q1. A location quotient above 1 means the sector employs a larger share here than nationally. A withheld cell is absent, not zero.
SectorJobsAverage weekly wageLocation quotient
Retail trade132,229$5031.44
Health care and social assistance94,338$6280.66
Accommodation and food services94,299$4101.11
Manufacturing78,119$1,0511.03
Administrative and waste services73,250$4571.36
Professional and technical services43,276$1,0940.66
Construction39,691$6050.80
Finance and insurance34,334$1,2620.89
Wholesale trade33,315$9700.92
Educational services27,289$5691.34
Transportation and warehousing21,607$7970.54
Management of companies18,692$1,5581.18
Other services16,838$5530.60
Real estate and rental15,406$6941.06
Information12,517$1,0930.72
Agriculture, forestry, fishing7,570$3241.11
Arts, entertainment and recreation6,072$6150.39
Utilities3,297$1,3620.88
Mining, oil and gas637$6200.19
Unclassified26$2730.01

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.

Affordability #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02Estimate. 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.

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.

Trade gateways #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

5 ports within 200 km, 0 land crossings within 250 km

NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.
ItemValueDistance
San Juan272,999 TEU 2023 · #18 US46 km
Playa De Poncemedium harbour, channel 9.4 m31 km
Playa De Guayanillamedium harbour, channel 9.4 m39 km
Ensenada Hondamedium harbour, channel 7.9 m88 km
Road Harbormedium harbour, channel 6.4 m197 km

These are the gateways near the state’s centroid, within the radii named above, not every port and crossing inside the state boundary. lib/economy searches a disc around a point; there is no clip-to-boundary path.

NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.

National pulse #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

1 national series, latest 2026-10-01

FRED series (Freddie Mac, Census, BEA, EIA, BLS, S&P) and BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators; each item carries its own date and source.

Largest counties #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-02

The 12 counties of Puerto Rico with the most covered jobs.

The largest counties of Puerto Rico by covered employment.
CountyJobsFIPS
San Juan Municipio245,90672127
Guaynabo Municipio59,28172061
Bayamón Municipio54,19572021
Carolina Municipio50,42972031
Ponce Municipio47,09872113
Caguas Municipio43,87572025
Mayagüez Municipio31,94072097
Arecibo Municipio22,04472013
Aguadilla Municipio19,73072005
Humacao Municipio17,00272069
Toa Baja Municipio15,44572137
Manatí Municipio14,32372091

Ranked by BLS QCEW third-month covered employment from the same nationwide table the screener uses. A county whose cell BLS withheld is absent from the ranking, not last in it.

Metropolitan areas #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

6 metropolitan statistical areas lie wholly or partly in Puerto Rico.

Metropolitan statistical areas in Puerto Rico.
Metropolitan areaCBSA
Aguadilla, PR10380
Arecibo, PR11640
Guayama, PR25020
Mayaguez, PR32420
Ponce, PR38660
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR41980

From the bundled place manifest, which derives its metro table offline from the committed BLS OEWS metro index. A metro that spans a state line appears on both states' pages.

Water #

not applicableretrieved 2026-10-02There is no state water report here. lib/water searches discs of 75 km for gauges and wells and 150 km for reservoirs around a single point; a disc around a state's centroid is not a state, and presenting one as a state figure would be a false claim. The county pages carry the water sections, each labelled with its own radius.

Drought, reservoirs, stream gauges and groundwater wells are reported around a point, with every row's distance printed. That is a county page's section, not a state's.

National indicator context #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

None of these series is keyed to this state. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.

The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
IndicatorLatestUnitStatus
Mississippi River at Memphis, stagenot publishedftno data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stagenot publishedftno data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage16.50ftok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stagenot publishedftno data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)5,170.00ft³/sok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full71.30%ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly258,700.00trucksok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual10,513,167.00TEUwatch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports6.00shipsok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate6,830.00$ per 40 ft boxwatch
US diesel retail pricenot published$ per gallonno data
WTI crude oil, spot96.16$ per barrelwatch
30-year fixed mortgage rate7.28%watch
Housing starts, annual rate1,275.00thousands of unitsok
Building permits, annual rate1,403.00thousands of unitsok
Case-Shiller US home price index337.31index, Jan 2000 = 100ok
Unemployment rate4.10%ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly-88,576.00$ millionsok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly646,347.00$ millionsok

lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series. Reading these as this state's own readings would be wrong.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-02

Puerto Rico: 5 findings, 1 at a watch level and 4 noted

  1. watchPuerto Rico's covered employment is -0.8% 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 = -0.8 < 0

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

  2. notePuerto Rico's average weekly wage was 3.4% 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
    • +3.4 % = 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

  3. notePuerto Rico's covered employment was 0.8% 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
    • -0.8 % = 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

  4. notePuerto Rico's average weekly wage of $724 ranks 52nd of 52 US states, against a median of $1,416.

    Period 2026 Q1.
    Show the arithmetic
    • 0 on the 0-to-100 scale across 52 US states that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage

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

  5. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Puerto Rico is due between 2026-09-25 and 2026-10-09, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-09, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

The full Puerto Rico brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.

Every sentence in the brief is written by a rule table in lib/brief, not generated, and each one can print the arithmetic behind its number.

Sources #

  • publishedTIGERwebU.S. Census Bureauopen the source
    tigerWMS_Current · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-08 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    area 72000, all ownerships, all industries · period 2026-Q1 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    area 72000, NAICS sectors, private ownership · period 2026-Q1 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedWorld Port Index (Pub 150)National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencyopen the source
    Pub 150 World Port Index · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedPort Performance Freight StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Transportation Statisticsopen the source
    5rpz-kgm9 port statistics · period 2023 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • publishedFRED Economic DataFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louisopen the source
    MORTGAGE30US · period 2026-10-01 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · momentum = 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%); terms jobs over-the-year change -0.8% / ±3% × 0.3, avg weekly wage over-the-year change +3.4% / ±6% × 0.25
  • publishedQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    area 72, all ownerships, all industries · period 2026-Q1 · retrieved 2026-10-02
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-02 · 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%)

Citations

  • U.S. Census Bureau. TIGERweb. series tigerWMS_Current. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-08. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. series area 72000, all ownerships, all industries. period 2026-Q1. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/72000.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. series area 72000, NAICS sectors, private ownership. period 2026-Q1. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/72000.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. World Port Index (Pub 150). series Pub 150 World Port Index. https://msi.nga.mil/Publications/WPI. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Port Performance Freight Statistics. series 5rpz-kgm9 port statistics. period 2023. https://data.bts.gov/resource/5rpz-kgm9.json. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED Economic Data. series MORTGAGE30US. period 2026-10-01. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: momentum = 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%); terms jobs over-the-year change -0.8% / ±3% × 0.3, avg weekly wage over-the-year change +3.4% / ±6% × 0.25.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. series area 72, all ownerships, all industries. period 2026-Q1. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/72.csv. accessed 2026-10-02.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-02. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: 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%).

What these numbers are not

  • A 75 km disc around a state's centroid is not a state water report, so the water section is omitted at state scale rather than presented as one.
  • Zillow publishes its rent index (ZORI) for counties and metros only, so statewide rent and price-to-rent are empty here, not zero.
  • Statewide figures: descend below 2,500 km for the county.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-02T00:52:23.142Z. Place identity tables have never been pulled: names, centroids and memberships come from the offline seed, which is complete for states and metropolitan areas and partial for counties.