Ponce, PR

Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 38660 · 18.02, -66.64

1 finding fired for Ponce, PR this run, against covered employment of 69,581 in 2026 Q1.

Jobs, OEWS
63,500
as of May 2025
  • 29th pct · 279th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500

Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.

Jobs, county rollup
69,581
as of 2026 Q1

An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.

Typical home value
not published
  • US metro areas: not published this period

Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Typical rent
not published
  • US metro areas: not published this period

Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.

Price-to-rent
not publishedyears of rent
  • US metro areas: not published this period

typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.

Home value, 1-yr
not published
  • US metro areas: not published this period

Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.

A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.

Occupation mix #

currentas of May 2025retrieved 2026-10-19

The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Ponce, PR, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.

Top 30 detailed occupations by employment, Ponce, PR, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
41-2031Retail Salespersons3,580$24,8902.25
37-2011Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners2,940$23,4503.26
41-2011Cashiers2,320$23,6901.84
35-3023Fast Food and Counter Workers2,100$22,1001.34
29-1141Registered Nurses1,980$42,0401.43
43-9061Office Clerks, General1,560$26,2601.55
53-7065Stockers and Order Fillers1,490$26,1501.29
43-6014Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive1,480$26,1102.13
51-2090Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators1,430$26,8202.49
49-9071Maintenance and Repair Workers, General1,080$25,2401.72
41-1011First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers1,000$34,3802.18
43-4051Customer Service Representatives900$28,1900.85
43-1011First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers880$42,4401.50
25-9045Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary860$24,4401.48
31-1120Home Health and Personal Care Aides730$22,5600.42
35-3031Waiters and Waitresses730$28,1400.78
37-3011Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers730$22,8401.89
49-9041Industrial Machinery Mechanics700$36,1803.88
47-2061Construction Laborers660$25,1601.47
43-6013Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants650$30,7301.66
35-2012Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria640$28,5403.55
53-3032Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers640$26,8900.75
33-9032Security Guards600$23,4401.15
35-2014Cooks, Restaurant600$25,1101.04
13-2011Accountants and Auditors590$43,4600.99
25-2031Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education560$56,7301.28
53-7062Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand560$28,2000.47
35-1012First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers550$29,3501.11
25-2012Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education530$58,48011.85
29-2052Pharmacy Technicians480$31,7702.48
All 22 SOC major groups, Ponce, PR, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
43-0000Office and Administrative Support Occupations9,350$29,8601.29
41-0000Sales and Related Occupations7,970$26,9801.45
35-0000Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations6,050$24,8901.08
25-0000Educational Instruction and Library Occupations5,410$52,4201.46
51-0000Production Occupations5,120$29,1301.47
29-0000Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations4,530$48,2801.13
53-0000Transportation and Material Moving Occupations4,490$27,0600.80
37-0000Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations4,160$23,4902.24
49-0000Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations2,960$33,3701.19
47-0000Construction and Extraction Occupations2,450$30,2600.93
13-0000Business and Financial Operations Occupations2,410$48,7200.56
11-0000Management Occupations2,020$85,5800.44
31-0000Healthcare Support Occupations1,590$30,5500.49
33-0000Protective Service Occupations1,220$30,0600.79
21-0000Community and Social Service Occupations880$39,1600.81
17-0000Architecture and Engineering Occupations790$64,7500.74
39-0000Personal Care and Service Occupations730$24,9900.55
19-0000Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations550$56,3300.92
15-0000Computer and Mathematical Occupations400$45,2200.19
27-0000Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations190$66,5800.23
45-0000Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations110$25,9800.65
23-0000Legal Occupations100not published0.19

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.

Housing #

unavailableretrieved 2026-10-19The place manifest has no Zillow RegionID for CBSA 38660, and Zillow's metro files are keyed by RegionID, so there is no row to show. Guessing one by name would be a different metro.

Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.

Employment, rolled up from member counties #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-19

About 69,581 covered jobs across the 6 member counties BLS published.

  • jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 6 of 6 member counties BLS publishes.
  • 69,581 = 2,275 + 7,679 + 2,632 + 47,098 + 3,698 + 6,199
The 6 counties the place manifest assigns to CBSA 38660.
CountyFIPS
Guayanilla Municipio, PR72059
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR72075
Peñuelas Municipio, PR72111
Ponce Municipio, PR72113
Villalba Municipio, PR72149
Yauco Municipio, PR72153

There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.

National indicator context #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.

The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
IndicatorLatestUnitStatus
Mississippi River at Memphis, stagenot publishedftno data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stagenot publishedftno data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage17.95ftok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stagenot publishedftno data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)5,170.00ft³/sok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full72.20%ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly258,700.00trucksok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual10,513,167.00TEUwatch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports7.00shipsok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate7,848.00$ per 40 ft boxwatch
US diesel retail pricenot published$ per gallonno data
WTI crude oil, spot101.91$ per barrelwatch
30-year fixed mortgage rate7.40%watch
Housing starts, annual rate1,275.00thousands of unitsok
Building permits, annual rate1,403.00thousands of unitsok
Case-Shiller US home price index337.31index, Jan 2000 = 100ok
Unemployment rate4.20%ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly-105,572.00$ millionsok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly652,115.00$ millionsok

lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

Ponce, PR: 1 finding, 1 noted

  1. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Ponce, PR is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

The full Ponce, PR brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.

Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.

Sources #

  • publishedOccupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    MSA 38660, all occupations · period May 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 6 of 6 member counties BLS publishes. 69,581 = 2,275 + 7,679 + 2,632 + 47,098 + 3,698 + 6,199

Citations

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. series MSA 38660, all occupations. period May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. https://www.bls.gov/cew/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 6 of 6 member counties BLS publishes. 69,581 = 2,275 + 7,679 + 2,632 + 47,098 + 3,698 + 6,199.

What these numbers are not

  • There is no metro market report: MarketReport describes a county or a state, and BLS QCEW's own metro rows follow each year's delineation, so they are not used here. The metro page shows Zillow's own metro rows and a county-rollup employment estimate with its arithmetic instead.
  • Metro employment is an ESTIMATE: the sum of the member counties BLS did publish, not BLS QCEW's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. Withheld counties are named and excluded, never zeroed.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-19T18:12:46.057Z. Place identity tables pulled 2026-10-01.