The territorial division of Spain by income leaves a fracture between those who reside in some of the large cities, a minority part of the population, and the citizens who live in medium-sized cities and towns, the majority of taxpayers. However, the former declare most of the income recorded by the Treasury: only among the inhabitants of seven cities (about eight million people) they bring together 25% of these incomes. The other 39 million Spaniards share the remaining 75%.
Madrid is the city with the highest declared income, 12% of the almost 570,000 million euros taxed by Spaniards in 2018, according to the latest personal income tax statistics from the Tax Agency. Far behind are the citizens of Barcelona (5.8%), and followed by Valencia (2.1%), Zaragoza (1.9%), Seville (1.6%), Malaga (1.09%) and Palma de Mallorca (1.09%). Between the seven they declare about 142,000 million euros a year.
The Treasury statistics go a step further and reflect how one of the 40 large Spanish ‘cities’ concentrate 43.6% (248,259 million) of the declared income throughout the country. These are taxpayers with tax domicile located in Almería, Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Granada, Málaga, Seville, Zaragoza, Gijón, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Madrid, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Albacete, Burgos, Valladolid, Barcelona, Coruña, Vigo, Murcia, Logroño, Alicante, Castellón and Valencia.
La Moraleja leads the ‘ranking’
By districts, the neighborhoods of La Moraleja (Alcobendas, Madrid), Vallvidrera-Tibidabo and Les Planes (Barcelona), together with Somosaguas-Humera (Pozuelo de Alarcón), Salamanca-Goya and Aravaca (Madrid), are the areas that present the highest average gross income in all of Spain.
Specifically, La Moraleja is the district with the highest gross income in all of Spain, with 214,276 euros, 28% more than the previous year and more than double that of the second district with the highest average disposable income, Vallvidrera-Tibidabo i Les Planes (Barcelona), which presents an average gross income of 97,866 euros, 5.4% more.
Following, advancing one position, is the district of Somosaguas-Humera (Pozuelo de Alarcón), with 96,930 euros; Salamanca-Goya, which drops one position but increases its average gross income to 95,492 euros; Aravaca (Madrid), with 95,427 euros and Pedralbes-Sarriá (Barcelona), with 92,053 euros.
The ‘top ten’ neighborhoods with the highest gross and average income in Spain are completed by the districts of Castellana (Madrid), with 91,283 euros; Muntaner (Barcelona), with 88,149 euros; New Spain (Madrid); with 86,202 euros. Followed and very close, but below 80,000 euros, is the rest of the Madrid municipality of Pozuelo de Alarcón, with 79,506 euros.
For their part, the ten districts with the lowest average gross income in Spain are Carrús-Plaza Barcelona (Elche, Alicante), with 15,776 euros; Garrapilos (Jerez, Cádiz), with 17,123 euros; South Sector-Polígono del Guadalquivir (Córdoba), with 17,321 euros; Altamira-El Toscar (Elche), with 17,377 euros and Gea and Truyols (Murcia), with 17,643 euros.
The rest of the neighborhoods and districts with less income are Ciudad Jardín (Alicante), with 17,874 euros; Los Ramos (Murcia), with 18,171 euros; Farmhouses (Murcia), with 18,504 euros; Bellavista-La Palmera-Cerro-Amate (Seville), with 18,707 euros; and Guadalcacín (Jeréz, Cádiz), with 18,764 euros.
In the city of Madrid, the neighborhoods with the highest income are Salamanca-Goya, Aravaca, Castellana, Nueva España or Castilla-Chamartín, while those with the lowest declared income are Entrevías-Puente de Vallecas, Pavones, Villaverde-S or Usera.
Between the richest district, Salamanca-Goya (95,492 euros) and the one with the lowest gross income, Entrevías-Puente de Vallecas (20,767 euros), there is a difference of 4.5 times between the two.
On the other hand, in Barcelona the neighborhoods with the most income are Vallvidrera-Tibidabo and Les Planes, Pedralbes-Sarriá, Muntaner, Sant Gervasi-La Bonanova, Diagonal-Provença, Passeig de Gràcia-Rambla de Catalunya and Sant Gervasi, while the they have less rent are Vallbona-Ciutat Meridiana-Torre Baro-Canyelles, Ciutat Vella-El Raval, La Guineueta-Verdún, La Prosperitat-Porta, La Verneda and La Pau and Pueblo Seco.
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