Jayuya Municipio area

Population and density of Jayuya Municipio

The Census Bureau estimates that 14,423 people lived in Jayuya Municipio on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,195 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #70 of 78 in Puerto Rico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 14,780, the population has declined by 357 (−2.4%), compared with −3.1% for Puerto Rico as a whole.

With 44.5 square miles of land, that is 324 people per square mile (125 per km²), placing Jayuya Municipio #479 nationally for density and #69 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 2 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 Jayuya Municipio

Puerto Rico has no incorporated places below the municipio: Jayuya 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

Jayuya Municipio is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

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

00664

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 Jayuya Municipio

Jayuya Municipio shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Jayuya Municipio. The largest neighbor is Ponce Municipio (114.9 mi²) and the smallest is Juana Díaz Municipio (60.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Jayuya Municipio forms a block of 463.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.6%.

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

Jayuya Municipio has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 23 times as much. Puerto Rico’s county land could hold about 77 areas the size of Jayuya Municipio.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 6.67 miles (10.7 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 Jayuya Municipio?

Jayuya Municipio has more land than 78 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 Jayuya Municipio at #3,164 nationally by total area, 20 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 0%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.2 percentage points lower. 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 Jayuya 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.