Peñuelas Municipio area

Population and density of Peñuelas Municipio

The Census Bureau estimates that 19,325 people lived in Peñuelas Municipio on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,926 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #60 of 78 in Puerto Rico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 20,390, the population has declined by 1,065 (−5.2%), compared with −3.1% for Puerto Rico as a whole.

With 44.7 square miles of land, that is 433 people per square mile (167 per km²), placing Peñuelas Municipio #385 nationally for density and #62 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 1.5 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 Peñuelas Municipio

Puerto Rico has no incorporated places below the municipio: Peñuelas 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

Peñuelas Municipio is an outlying county of the Ponce, PR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 6 county equivalents have 262,792 residents on 365.6 square miles of land; Peñuelas Municipio accounts for 12.2% of the land and 7.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #383 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #194 by population. It belongs to the Ponce-Coamo, PR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

00624

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 Peñuelas Municipio

Peñuelas Municipio shares a land border with 3 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Ponce Municipio (114.9 mi²) and the smallest is Guayanilla Municipio (42.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Peñuelas Municipio forms a block of 268.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.6%.

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

Peñuelas 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 Peñuelas Municipio.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 6.68 miles (10.8 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 Peñuelas Municipio?

Peñuelas Municipio has more land than 79 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 Peñuelas Municipio at #3,134 nationally by total area, 9 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 34.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 33 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 Peñuelas 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.