Pozuelo, Matadepera and Boadilla repeat as the richest municipalities in Spain, according to the INE — idealista/news

2023-10-30 13:26:04

Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) In 2021, it was the municipality with more than 2,000 inhabitants with the highest average annual income per person, with a total of 27.167 euroswhile the Sevillian municipality of The Palmar de Troya presented the lowest figure, with 7.299 eurosaccording to the ‘Atlas of Household Income Distribution’ for the year 2021 published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

According to statistics data, butternut squashin Barcelona, ​​is the second richest municipality, with an average annual income per inhabitant of 24,091 euros, followed by Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), with 23,169 euros, and two other Barcelona municipalities, Sant Just Desvern and Sant Cugat del Vallés, with average annual incomes of 22,322 and 21,888 euros per inhabitant, respectively. These five municipalities repeat positions with respect to the previous ‘Atlas’ published by the INE, corresponding to the year 2020.

On the opposite side, thethe five municipalities with more than 2,000 inhabitants who in 2021 presented the lower average annual income figures per inhabitant They are located mainly in Andalusia: El Palmar de Troya, in Seville (7,299 euros); Albuñol and Iznalloz, both in Granadawith 7,371 and 7,540 euros, respectively; Villanueva del Fresno, in Badajozwith 7,694 euros, and La Mojonera, in Almería, also with 7,694 euros.

The first three already led the classification of municipalities with the lowest per capita income in 2020, but the last two did not appear among the top five in the previous statistics.

By geographical location, the 2021 data published by the INE reveals that 84.9% of the municipalities of the Basque Country are among the 25% of those with the highest income in Spainabove 14,443 euros, followed by those of Navarra, with 66.5%.

At the other extreme is Murcia, where 86.7% of its municipalities are among the 25% with the lowest income, below 10,987 euros, followed by Andalusia, with 83.7%.

Guipúzcoa, the province with the highest income per inhabitant

According to the INE, the provincial capitals with a higher percentage of census sections with the highest average annual net income per inhabitant, above 18,152 euros, are led by San Sebastián (54.9%), Madrid (39.1%) and Barcelona (35.7%). On the contrary, Pontevedra (1.6%), Zamora (2%) and Huelva (2.8%) present the lowest percentages of very wealthy census tracts.

For their part, the provincial capitals that have the highest percentage of sections with the lowest average annual net income per inhabitant, below the first income decile (9,295 euros), are Melilla (29.5%), Ceuta (26.8 %) and Alicante (24%).

Statistics highlight that nine provincial capitals do not have any census section at the low end of average income per inhabitanttwo less than in 2020.

Overall, 59.5% of the population in the Basque Country lives in high-income census sections, while in the case of Extremadura this percentage is only 7.4%. On the contrary, 60.2% of the population in Extremadura lives in low-income census sections. In the Basque Country this percentage is 1.4%.

By province, Guipúzcoa tops the list of annual income, with 16,887 euros of average annual net income per inhabitant in 2021. It is followed by Vizcaya, with 16,192 euros; Madrid (16,146 euros); Álava (15,539 euros) and Barcelona (15,297 euros).

The provinces with the lowest annual income per capita are Almería (10,103 euros of net income); Badajoz (10,549); Huelva (10,609 euros); Jaén (10,689 euros) and Cádiz (10,712).