Where to live in Puerto Rico
We track one city in Puerto Rico: San Juan. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,210 a month to live centrally. Puerto Rico sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Good English
- Safety
- 55/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 68/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~120 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Juan | mid-sized | coastal | 27°C | 1,668 mm | €3,210 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Puerto Rico sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Puerto Rico has no immigration system of its own; it falls under US federal immigration, so US citizens relocate freely while everyone else needs a US green card through family or employer sponsorship or the EB-5 investor route, with no self-funded passive-income or retirement option.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Puerto Rico:
- Investment: about $800k (US EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, USD 800,000 in a Targeted Employment Area (lowest tier; USD 1,050,000 outside a TEA), per the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022; Puerto Rico is covered by US federal immigration; as of June 2026)
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).