Camuy Municipio area

Population and density of Camuy Municipio

The Census Bureau estimates that 32,691 people lived in Camuy Municipio on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,418 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #36 of 78 in Puerto Rico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 32,836, the population has declined by 145 (−0.4%), compared with −3.1% for Puerto Rico as a whole.

With 46.4 square miles of land, that is 704 people per square mile (272 per km²), placing Camuy Municipio #257 nationally for density and #44 in Puerto Rico. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Puerto Rico median is 754. Put another way, there are about 0.909 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Camuy Municipio

Puerto Rico has no incorporated places below the municipio: Camuy Municipio is itself the local government. The Census Bureau describes the settlements inside it, such as zonas urbanas and comunidades, as statistical places, and publishes no separate annual estimates for them.

Metropolitan area

Camuy Municipio is a central county of the Arecibo, PR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 179,229 residents on 236.9 square miles of land; Camuy Municipio accounts for 19.6% of the land and 18.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #390 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #256 by population. It belongs to the San Juan-Bayamón, PR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has land in Camuy Municipio, and it lies mostly inside the county.

00627

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Camuy Municipio

Camuy Municipio shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is San Sebastián Municipio (70.5 mi²) and the smallest is Quebradillas Municipio (22.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Camuy Municipio forms a block of 242.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.1%.

How big is Camuy Municipio compared with U.S. states?

Camuy Municipio has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 22 times as much. Puerto Rico’s county land could hold about 74 areas the size of Camuy Municipio.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 6.81 miles (11 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Camuy Municipio?

Camuy Municipio has more land than 87 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Camuy Municipio at #3,143 nationally by total area, 8 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 25.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 23.9 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Camuy Municipio in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.