ZIP 00962 vs ZIP 00960

This side-by-side compares ZIP 00962 (Catano, PR) and ZIP 00960 (Bayamon, PR) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 00962 has a population of 22,491 at 2,274 people per square mile, while ZIP 00960 has 1,779 at 752 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 00962 reports a median household income of $21,288 against — in ZIP 00960, with per-capita income of $13,726 vs $1,101. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 17.9% in 00962 and 4.5% in 00960. Poverty rate reads 47.0% vs 54.9%, and unemployment 11.2% vs 0.0% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $124,100 in 00962 versus — in 00960, with median rent of $550 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 54.6% vs —. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.