Villalba Municipio area

Population and density of Villalba Municipio

The Census Bureau estimates that 21,133 people lived in Villalba Municipio on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,827 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #58 of 78 in Puerto Rico. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 22,094, the population has declined by 961 (−4.3%), compared with −3.1% for Puerto Rico as a whole.

With 35.6 square miles of land, that is 593 people per square mile (229 per km²), placing Villalba Municipio #295 nationally for density and #52 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 1.1 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 Villalba Municipio

Puerto Rico has no incorporated places below the municipio: Villalba 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

Villalba 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; Villalba Municipio accounts for 9.7% of the land and 8% 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 Villalba Municipio, and it lies mostly inside the county.

00766

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 Villalba Municipio

Villalba Municipio shares a land border with 3 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Villalba Municipio. The largest neighbor is Coamo Municipio (78 mi²) and the smallest is Juana Díaz Municipio (60.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Villalba Municipio forms a block of 237.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 15%.

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

Villalba Municipio has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 29 times as much. Puerto Rico’s county land could hold about 96 areas the size of Villalba Municipio.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 5.97 miles (9.6 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 Villalba Municipio?

Villalba Municipio has more land than 63 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 Villalba Municipio at #3,172 nationally by total area, 13 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 3.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.6 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 Villalba 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.