Explore Puerto Rico by topic
Ten topics, each with a headline figure for the whole island. Open a topic for all its maps, or search all the data. What you put on the map appears in the On the map panel; click a municipality on the map for everything about it.
mapReference
A light map style that keeps the data in front: soft colors, few labels.
Available once the base map has loaded.
home_workHousing
schoolEducation
forestEnvironment and climate
Land and protected areas
floodHazards
VE / V — coastal high hazard (wave action)
A / AE / AH / AO / A99 — 1% annual chance (SFHA)
Regulatory floodway
X shaded — 0.2% annual chance
commuteInfrastructure and mobility
Mobility and transit
Tren Urbano
ATI buses (AMA / Metrobús / Metro Urbano)
Municipal bus and trolley systems
Públicos (OpenStreetMap, no timetable)
Solid lines follow the roads. Dashed, lighter lines: the feed lists the stops out of order, so the order of visit is inferred. Dotted lines join the stops straight because no road path could be found.
Ferry (AcuaExpreso: Ceiba–Vieques–Culebra, Cataño–Old San Juan)
Safety and emergencies
groupsCommunities
Plan approved by the Puerto Rico Department of Housing
Plan in progress
placeVisitor economy
The names and descriptions of the data are in English for now.
Choose a municipality from the list, or click one on the map, to see its tourism supply and exposure profile.
Choose a region to see its profile: its municipios added up, with the same measures as Place › Municipality.
tunePlanning layers
scheduleWhat is live
directions_busOperators
Loading the transit network…
routePlan a route
Name where a route starts, where it ends and any stops between (a town, street, landmark, stop or PR route number), or choose them on the map. The route follows roads, and the numbers show who and what it would reach, how much of it duplicates existing service, and where it could connect.
Opening the route planner…
Loading the economy data…
What is the PR Data Observatory?
A living, open model of Puerto Rico. It puts public data from many fields on one map and one timeline so you can see how things connect: where people live and what is near them, what things cost and what people earn, what is exposed to risk, and how all of it has changed.
Developed by Foundation for Puerto Rico as a tool for public use and benefit. It is free, needs no account, and is built from open and public data.
What it covers
The observatory keeps growing: a new field appears here and in the Overview when data for it is added. Fields marked “no data yet” are planned.
Who it is for
- Residents and community groups: see how your municipality compares with others and what is near where you live.
- Local and island planners: find where people live far from services, test a new transit route and compare municipalities side by side.
- Researchers, students and journalists: every number has a definition, a source and a way to cite it in the data dictionary, and tables download as CSV.
- Funders, nonprofits and recovery teams: set money, needs and risks side by side to see where they meet.
Start here: six steps
- Explore by topic. The Explore tab lists ten topics, from population to communities. Open one to see its maps and add them to the map, or search all the data. Map layers lists every layer of points, lines and areas, and Catalog every dataset.
- See what is on the map. The On the map panel lists every layer that is on, with its legend and year. Change, hide or remove a layer there.
- Click a municipality or a place. The Place tab shows its profile: housing, exposure to hazards, transit access and visitor places, and the profile of a region.
- Analyze. The Tools tab gathers the map tools, plans a route and holds the workbench: ready-made views, indexes and scenarios. Place › Rankings ranks the municipalities.
- Ask a question. Press Ask at the top, in English or Spanish. Try the examples below.
- Check and share. Open the Data dictionary to see what any number means, where it comes from and how to cite it. Copy a link to share your view. Download tables as CSV.
Questions to try:
What is in each part
The tabs on this map
- Overview
- One headline figure for each field, for the whole island, with a trend where there is one. Press Show on map to see where.
- Layers
- Switch map layers on and off, in groups that go from the whole island to single places: territory (municipal and barrio boundaries, and shading by any of the listed measures), hazards and environment, land and housing, infrastructure and mobility, community services, communities, and the visitor economy (tourism places by category).
- Catalog
- Search everything the observatory documents, filter it by field, geography, year, license and source, and add it to the map.
- Municipality
- Click a municipality for its profile: population, housing costs, share in flood zones, transit access, visitor places and more.
- Rankings
- Rank the 78 municipalities by any measure and download the table.
- Map tools
- Every tool that works on the map, in one list: the area around a point, walking time, what drains here, your own areas and points, slope and contour lines, route planning, comparing and combining layers, and sharing.
- Transit
- Every operator on the island and the state of its timetable, vehicles on their schedule right now, residents far from service, and a route planner that follows roads and scores a route.
- Economy
- More than 100 yearly datasets on jobs, pay, industries, unemployment, income, poverty, commuting, internet, housing and federal money. Layer as many as you like, compare two at once, and open a workbench with a table, scatter plot and trends.
- About
- This page.
The top bar
- Search
- Find a municipality, barrio, street, landmark, transit stop, route number or tourism place. Press / to jump to it.
- Ask
- A chat that finds datasets, answers questions with real numbers, puts the answer on the map and tells you what is missing. It builds every answer from the data loaded here (it is not a generative AI), and nothing you type leaves your browser.
- Map
- This 2D map.
- 3D + Time
- An immersive 3D view with terrain and buildings, sea level rise by year, a replay of a day of transit, and hurricane tracks since 1851.
- Housing
- FPR's 2023 study The State of Housing in Puerto Rico, table by table, with live data for every year from 2010 to 2025.
- Data dictionary
- What every dataset, variable and measure means, its source and license, the glossary, the published data files, and how to cite.
Where the data come from
Public data from the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, FEMA, NOAA, USGS, FAA, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Junta de Planificación, the Autoridad de Transporte Integrado and municipal transit feeds, OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, and FPR's own 2023 housing study. Most have an open license, but not all: some sources, such as the municipal transit feeds and the Junta de Planificación's maps, state no license, and the short-term rental count on the Housing page was licensed to FPR for the study and is shown as published. The Data management page gives the license class and review of every file.
The data dictionary lists every source with its license, the credit line to use and how often it changes, and how to cite the observatory and any variable.
Keep in mind
- It is a snapshot. The label at the top says which one. Transit timetables refresh every night; the rest is rebuilt in snapshots. Each dataset shows the year of its data.
- Places are listings, not a census of businesses. Tourism places come from Overture Maps and can be missing, duplicated or out of date. The confidence slider filters them.
- Hazards are mapped zones. A flood zone is FEMA's map of risk at a point, not a prediction, and it says nothing about a building's elevation or insurance.
- Timetables are not live. Real-time bus positions are not public today. “On their timetable” is a schedule calculation.
- Survey numbers are estimates. Margins of error are large in small municipalities. Jobs are counted where the work is done, not where people live, and informal work is not counted.
- Patterns are not causes. Use the observatory to ask better questions and plan, not as a legal, financial or engineering determination.
Privacy
There are no accounts, cookies or analytics. What you type in the search box or the chat stays in your browser; the one exception is “Look up as an address online”, which sends that text to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service (nominatim.openstreetmap.org).
To draw the pages, your browser also asks other servers for files. Each server receives your IP address, the browser's usual HTTP headers and the file or tile it sends; a map tile shows which area of the map you are viewing. These are the servers:
- GitHub Pages, which hosts the observatory itself: every page and its data.
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com): the fonts, on every page.
- cdnjs (cdnjs.cloudflare.com): code libraries (Leaflet, MapLibre, Chart.js) on the map, 3D and Housing pages and the barrio vulnerability page.
- unpkg (unpkg.com): the deck.gl and PMTiles libraries of the 3D view.
- OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org, served through Cloudflare): the base map's style, vector tiles, icons and label fonts, on the map, 3D and barrio vulnerability pages.
- Amazon Web Services (s3.amazonaws.com): the terrain elevation tiles of the 3D view.
- NOAA (coast.noaa.gov): the sea level rise tiles, on the map and 3D pages, only while that layer is on.
Cite it and tell us what is missing
To cite: Foundation for Puerto Rico, PR Data Observatory, . Please also credit the original sources, which the data dictionary writes out for you.
The observatory's database keeps growing as FPR adds open datasets. Ask the chat “What data is missing?” to see what is planned, or write to Foundation for Puerto Rico at foundationforpuertorico.org with a correction or a dataset to add.
