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NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

Puerto Rico

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,122,959
people (GHSL 2025)
9,059 km²
area
0.9%
of United States of America
78
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Puerto Rico

The 78 ADM2 units of Puerto Rico.

FIG 1 · 78 units inside Puerto Rico
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

3,122,959

0.9% of United States of America.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

3,085,061

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

9,059 km²

345 people per km².

Code

US-PR

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

383,982

people on land at or below 10 m, 12.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

78 units inside Puerto Rico

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Adjuntas – 20,215 19,697 175.34 115 0.6% 0
Aguada – 38,598 35,606 80.37 480 1.2% 4,655
Aguadilla – 36,497 44,916 95.21 383 1.2% 0
Aguas Buenas – 34,821 33,411 74.44 468 1.1% 0
Aibonito – 17,646 19,960 81.65 216 0.6% 0
Añasco – 23,407 19,792 101.33 231 0.7% 6,224
Arecibo – 47,662 51,961 331.26 144 1.5% 8,053
Arroyo – 9,372 7,732 37.42 250 0.3% 0
Barceloneta – 19,368 17,907 47.96 404 0.6% 2,527
Barranquitas – 36,342 38,625 89.8 405 1.2% 0
Bayamón – 113,295 123,471 118.35 957 3.6% 0
Cabo Rojo – 50,625 43,413 194.74 260 1.6% 6,173
Caguas – 132,324 126,081 151.76 872 4.2% 0
Camuy – 31,625 34,246 121.94 259 1% 854
Canóvanas – 52,960 44,817 88.64 597 1.7% 11,551
Carolina – 230,038 230,970 122.33 1,880 7.3% 115,221
Cataño – 20,135 21,066 17.6 1,144 0.6% 0
Cayey – 46,028 44,959 138.99 331 1.5% 0
Ceiba – 9,033 11,420 87.71 103 0.3% 808
Ciales – 14,943 16,493 171.4 87 0.5% 0
Cidra – 31,905 32,548 93.65 341 1% 0
Coamo – 41,680 33,998 200.35 208 1.3% 0
Comerío – 16,698 16,298 75.67 221 0.5% 0
Corozal – 24,767 26,007 109.94 225 0.8% 0
Culebra – 1,650 1,604 56.14 29 0.1% 44
Dorado – 31,180 29,923 58.95 529 1% 10,699
Fajardo – 19,406 21,635 93.31 208 0.6% 591
Florida – 10,860 11,362 38.99 279 0.3% 0
Guánica – 16,849 12,238 102.24 165 0.5% 3,062
Guayama – 56,693 40,432 181.66 312 1.8% 6,194
Guayanilla – 17,582 16,753 111.44 158 0.6% 2,336
Guaynabo – 118,559 128,145 72.07 1,645 3.8% 15,824
Gurabo – 48,615 42,323 76.73 634 1.6% 0
Hatillo – 56,411 58,025 107.53 525 1.8% 2,579
Hormigueros – 13,034 11,379 27.66 471 0.4% 102
Humacao – 37,221 35,192 115.95 321 1.2% 2,986
Isabela – 30,119 33,609 141.91 212 1% 177
Jayuya – 16,859 16,885 114.7 147 0.5% 0
Juana Díaz – 46,619 48,535 159.26 293 1.5% 2,625
Juncos – 46,632 44,420 65.86 708 1.5% 0
Lajas – 18,824 18,796 157.19 120 0.6% 2,261
Lares – 17,593 18,838 158.74 111 0.6% 0
Las Marías – 8,077 9,393 121.82 66 0.3% 0
Las Piedras – 36,070 30,923 90.44 399 1.2% 0
Loíza – 11,435 11,314 51.53 222 0.4% 9,021
Luquillo – 15,715 15,245 68.74 229 0.5% 2,564
Manatí – 40,360 42,247 118.61 340 1.3% 4,324
Maricao – 6,811 5,886 93.92 73 0.2% 0
Maunabo – 6,037 5,513 53.26 113 0.2% 213
Mayagüez – 58,013 50,630 206.9 280 1.9% 4,835
Moca – 43,035 41,804 132.35 325 1.4% 612
Morovis – 36,045 33,319 101.01 357 1.2% 0
Naguabo – 31,120 26,222 136.08 229 1% 2,695
Naranjito – 49,591 52,530 72.42 685 1.6% 0
Orocovis – 19,621 20,944 167.4 117 0.6% 0
Patillas – 14,269 12,927 125.45 114 0.5% 551
Peñuelas – 14,202 13,405 115.31 123 0.5% 64
Ponce – 118,092 109,904 307.81 384 3.8% 6,752
Quebradillas – 21,201 21,800 61.48 345 0.7% 409
Rincón – 11,366 11,892 36.7 310 0.4% 1,248
Río Grande – 36,091 34,012 157.98 228 1.2% 10,987
Sabana Grande – 20,473 20,590 94 218 0.7% 0
Salinas – 28,161 23,905 191.59 147 0.9% 6,527
San Germán – 36,459 35,606 141.89 257 1.2% 0
San Juan – 161,626 182,283 136.89 1,181 5.2% 45,199
San Lorenzo – 29,596 30,386 137.16 216 0.9% 0
San Sebastián – 49,214 51,095 183.19 269 1.6% 0
Santa Isabel – 23,464 19,608 85.67 274 0.7% 6,498
Toa Alta – 72,401 57,069 73.15 990 2.3% 0
Toa Baja – 89,862 90,119 64.77 1,387 2.9% 47,033
Trujillo Alto – 112,824 131,854 54.8 2,059 3.6% 0
Utuado – 29,330 26,871 299.55 98 0.9% 0
Vega Alta – 42,288 39,221 72.68 582 1.3% 3,725
Vega Baja – 54,599 59,667 121.34 450 1.7% 10,526
Vieques – 7,375 6,282 141.47 52 0.2% 692
Villalba – 18,705 18,944 95.58 196 0.6% 0
Yabucoa – 33,218 32,034 142.6 233 1.1% 3,638
Yauco – 41,669 35,817 180.28 231 1.3% 82
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
150.1 H3 cells
Hawens
4 H3 cells
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
252.2 H3 cells
Spoorweë
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Puerto Rico publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Status

The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.

A country profile reads public evidence about a place. It is not a statement by or about the policy of any government, takes no position on the status of any territory, and does not imply a national programme or participation. Names follow UN M49.

Wat NXS-GRX nie is nie

NXS-GRX is navorsings- en risiko-analise-inligting. Dit is nie 'n krediet- of ESG-gradering nie en gebruik geen graderingskaal nie, nie 'n maatstaf vir finansiële instrumente nie, nie amptelike statistiek nie, nie 'n noodwaarskuwing of amptelike klassifikasie nie, en nie advies nie. Dit mag nie gebruik word om natuurlike persone te evalueer nie. Risikoklasse is bande op 'n gepubliseerde skaal, nooit ranglyste van lande of mense nie.

Pulse-seine en vooruitskouwaarskynlikhede is inligting vir hersiening deur bevoegde owerhede, nooit openbare waarskuwings nie; amptelike waarskuwings kom slegs van gemandateerde owerhede.

Instellings en bronne

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Avis en français

La méthodologie et les définitions du NXS-GRX sont un projet de travail préparatoire (2026). Le NXS-GRX est une information de recherche et d’analyse des risques : ni notation, ni indice de référence financier, ni statistique officielle, ni alerte, ni conseil. Les classes de risque sont des bandes sur une échelle publiée, non des classements.