Adjuntas Municipio vs Ciales Municipio

A side-by-side comparison of Adjuntas Municipio and Ciales Municipio: population, income, housing, and more.

Adjuntas Municipio and Ciales Municipio are counties in Puerto Rico. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Adjuntas Municipio has the higher population (17,975 vs 16,874 in Ciales Municipio). Ciales Municipio has the higher median household income ($20,614 vs $18,605 in Adjuntas Municipio). Ciales Municipio has the higher median home value ($95,400 vs $88,800 in Adjuntas Municipio).

Population, income & housing

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
Population	17,975	16,874
Median age	44.2 yrs	45.4 yrs
Median household income	$18,605	$20,614
Median home value	$88,800	$95,400
Median gross rent	$413	$407
Housing units	7,699	7,276
Homeownership rate	69.5%	69.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.0%	17.0%
Unemployment rate	21.4%	14.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
Population	17,891 → 17,975 (+0.5%)	16,513 → 16,874 (+2.2%)
Median household income	$14,012 → $18,605 (+32.8%)	$16,867 → $20,614 (+22.2%)
Median home value	$83,700 → $88,800 (+6.1%)	$88,600 → $95,400 (+7.7%)
Median gross rent	$380 → $413 (+8.7%)	$378 → $407 (+7.7%)

Adjuntas Municipio

Population

17,89117,975

Median household income

$14,012$18,605

Median home value

$83,700$88,800

Median gross rent

$380$413

Ciales Municipio

Population

16,51316,874

Median household income

$16,867$20,614

Median home value

$88,600$95,400

Median gross rent

$378$407

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
Under 5	3.1%	3.5%
5 to 17	14.5%	13.9%
18 to 24	8.6%	8.0%
25 to 34	12.3%	12.5%
35 to 44	12.1%	11.4%
45 to 54	12.7%	11.8%
55 to 64	14.6%	15.6%
65 to 74	12.2%	12.9%
75 and over	9.9%	10.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
White (non-Hispanic)	0.3%	0.4%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	99.7%	99.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
No high school diploma	30.2%	29.4%
High school graduate	31.2%	30.0%
Some college or associate's	21.7%	23.5%
Bachelor's degree	13.4%	14.5%
Graduate or professional degree	3.6%	2.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
Drove alone	82.0%	84.8%
Carpooled	2.7%	7.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.3%
Walked	6.7%	2.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.5%	3.2%
Other means	3.1%	1.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
1-unit, detached	79.1%	81.0%
1-unit, attached	13.1%	12.8%
2 to 4 units	3.2%	1.3%
5 to 19 units	3.7%	2.8%
20 or more units	0.9%	1.5%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.5%

Poverty & households

	Adjuntas Municipio	Ciales Municipio
Poverty rate	61.9%	58.2%
Average household size	3.03	3.00
Mean commute (minutes)	26	33
Median year structure built	1980	1985