This report presents final 1960 population counts and basic demographic characteristics of the population for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Comparable statistics for 1950 and earlier censuses are also shown in some of the tables. All of the statistics presented in this report are based on a complete count of the population.

In the 17 tables that follow, table 5 shows the total land area and urban and rural population of Puerto Rico, by municipios; tables 7 and 10 contain total population counts for cities, towns, villages, and standard metropolitan statistical areas; table 12 contains a summary of population characteristics for Puerto Rico, by size of place, and for standard metropolitan statistical areas, urbanized areas, urban places, and municipios; and tables 13, 15, 16, and 17 present data on age, by sex, marital status by sex, household relationship and nativity for Puerto Rico, urban and rural.

The data presented here are reprinted from Final Reports PC(l)-53A and PC(l)-53B for Puerto Rico, which contain additional data.

The PDF to the right contains the 11-page report.