CataÃ±o Municipio vs Quebradillas Municipio

A side-by-side comparison of CataÃ±o Municipio and Quebradillas Municipio: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Quebradillas Municipio has the higher population (23,486 vs 22,768 in CataÃ±o Municipio). CataÃ±o Municipio has the higher median household income ($24,307 vs $23,624 in Quebradillas Municipio). CataÃ±o Municipio has the higher median home value ($134,700 vs $109,700 in Quebradillas Municipio).

Population, income & housing

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
Population	22,768	23,486
Median age	43.5 yrs	44.2 yrs
Median household income	$24,307	$23,624
Median home value	$134,700	$109,700
Median gross rent	$561	$527
Housing units	11,011	10,619
Homeownership rate	59.3%	68.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.8%	21.2%
Unemployment rate	12.2%	8.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
Population	24,271 → 22,768 (-6.2%)	23,629 → 23,486 (-0.6%)
Median household income	$17,448 → $24,307 (+39.3%)	$17,473 → $23,624 (+35.2%)
Median home value	$117,700 → $134,700 (+14.4%)	$102,700 → $109,700 (+6.8%)
Median gross rent	$491 → $561 (+14.3%)	$457 → $527 (+15.3%)

CataÃ±o Municipio

Population

24,27122,768

Median household income

$17,448$24,307

Median home value

$117,700$134,700

Median gross rent

$491$561

Quebradillas Municipio

Population

23,62923,486

Median household income

$17,473$23,624

Median home value

$102,700$109,700

Median gross rent

$457$527

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
Under 5	3.4%	3.3%
5 to 17	14.0%	13.7%
18 to 24	9.0%	8.8%
25 to 34	13.3%	13.0%
35 to 44	12.3%	12.0%
45 to 54	11.1%	13.0%
55 to 64	13.5%	14.1%
65 to 74	11.9%	11.9%
75 and over	11.4%	10.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
White (non-Hispanic)	0.9%	1.2%
Black or African American	0.3%	0.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.1%	0.2%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.1%
Hispanic or Latino	98.8%	98.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
No high school diploma	21.5%	24.7%
High school graduate	33.1%	27.5%
Some college or associate's	22.6%	26.6%
Bachelor's degree	16.4%	15.7%
Graduate or professional degree	6.4%	5.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
Drove alone	84.0%	86.8%
Carpooled	5.7%	0.3%
Public transit	0.9%	1.2%
Walked	1.5%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.8%	11.4%
Other means	2.2%	0.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
1-unit, detached	61.1%	75.3%
1-unit, attached	17.4%	14.8%
2 to 4 units	4.0%	1.8%
5 to 19 units	13.1%	6.2%
20 or more units	4.1%	1.6%
Mobile home & other	0.3%	0.4%

Poverty & households

	CataÃ±o Municipio	Quebradillas Municipio
Poverty rate	44.2%	45.1%
Average household size	2.53	2.84
Mean commute (minutes)	26	29
Median year structure built	1974	1983