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Corregimiento · Panamá

Bocas del Toro

Corregimiento in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Official statistics compared with Bocas del Toro and the whole country, and REAL NOW market prices.

Its map boundary does not match the census one, so market metrics here only count listings whose corregimiento was stated by the listing itself.
Population
6,708
Censo 2023 #115 of 699
For sale or rent
14.5%
of private dwellings #4 of 699
Renters
26.8%
of occupied dwellings #14 of 699
Unoccupied dwellings
29.0%
of private dwellings #319 of 699
Median sale price per m²
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Official statistics

Population and housing, Censo 2023

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Population and households

Bocas del ToroCorregimientoBocas del ToroDistrictPanamáCountry
Population6,70817,2744,064,780
Households2,0084,4951,224,279
Persons per household3.343.843.32
Aged 0 to 1431.9%36.9%25.4%
Aged 65 and over6.0%5.1%9.8%

Source: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023

Housing stock

Bocas del ToroCorregimientoBocas del ToroDistrictPanamáCountry
Private dwellings2,7327,0261,589,018
For sale or rentempty and offered, share of private dwellings14.5%13.8%3.6%
Unoccupiedno residents present, any reason29.0%37.2%23.1%
Seasonal or holiday homes5.2%10.3%8.6%
Apartmentsshare of private dwellings20.8%9.7%13.7%

Source: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023

Tenure of occupied dwellings

Bocas del ToroCorregimientoBocas del ToroDistrictPanamáCountry
Owned outright68.1%76.4%63.5%
Owned with a mortgage0.2%0.2%18.1%
Rented26.8%17.3%13.1%

Source: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023

Basic services

Bocas del ToroCorregimientoBocas del ToroDistrictPanamáCountry
Connected to sewer60.8%33.3%41.0%
Public water supply21.8%13.8%69.8%
No electricity4.1%10.3%4.8%
Earth floor0.3%0.5%5.4%
No toilet8.2%30.1%3.7%

Source: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023

Bank credit

Bank credit in Bocas del Toro

Published by province only; shown here for the province this region belongs to. Stock of bank loans at 2026-07 and the change in a year.

Bocas del ToroChangePanamá
MortgageUS$79.4 M+3.9%US$21.59 B
ConstructionUS$6.5 M-12.7%US$4.19 B
ConsumerUS$171.2 M-0.1%US$15.42 B
All sectorsUS$306.7 M-2.9%US$65.73 B

Bocas del Toro holds 0.4% of the country’s mortgage credit.

Source: Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá

Mortgage and construction credit, monthly

Source: Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá

Market

Prices, rent and yield

Medians over the aggregated public offer seen in the last 30 days. List prices, not closed sales.

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Methodology

Sources and methodology

Official statistics

  • Population, households and dwellings: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023, by corregimiento. District and province figures are the published totals where INEC publishes them and the sum of corregimientos otherwise.
  • For sale or rent = private dwellings the census found empty and offered for sale or rent, divided by all private dwellings. Unoccupied = every private dwelling with no residents present (for sale or rent, seasonal, under repair, vacant, abandoned or other), divided by all private dwellings.
  • Renters, owners with a mortgage and the basic-services columns are shares of occupied dwellings.
  • Bank credit: Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá, stock of loans by province in 2026-07, compared with 2025-07.

REAL NOW market metrics

  • Sale: median asking price per m² of apartments and houses for sale seen in the last 30 days in the aggregated public offer, with the same outlier bounds as Analytics. List prices, not closed sales.
  • Confidence: solid = 30 or more listings, preliminary = 15 to 29; below 15 nothing is published.
  • Rent and gross yield: REAL NOW rent benchmarks, median monthly rent of homes; gross yield = rent × 12 ÷ sale price of the same cell, published only between 3 and 12 percent. Available by province or department and by municipality or canton.
Sources: INEC Panamá, Censo 2023 · Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá · REAL NOW aggregated public offer.