Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) is the municipality with the highest average income and the lowest unemployment rate throughout Spain, according to the ‘Urban Indicators 2022’ statistics published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
According to statistical data, Pozuelo (Madrid) is the municipality in Spain with the lowest average unemployment rate estimated in 2021, with 6.2%, followed by Sant Cugat del Vallès (6.4%) and Las Rozas de Madrid (7.1%).
On the contrary, Linares (Jaén), with 30.9%, followed by La Línea de la Concepción (30.3%) and Alcalá de Guadaíra (26.9%) presented the highest unemployment rates.
After Pozuelo, Sant Cugat del Vallès and Las Rozas, the Madrid municipalities of Majadahonda (7.4%), Donostia/San Sebastián (7.8%) and Getxo (7.9%) also stand out for their low unemployment rates.
Thus, of the 15 municipalities with the lowest average unemployment rates estimated for 2021, six are in the Community of Madrid, four in Catalonia, three in the Basque Country and two in Galicia.
On the opposite side, among the first five municipalities with the most unemployment, four are located in Andalusia: Linares, with a rate of 30.9%; La Línea de la Concepción (30.3%), Alcalá de Guadaira (26.9%) and Jerez de la Frontera (26%). The fifth municipality with the highest unemployment rate is Santa Lucía de Tirajana, in Gran Canaria, with 26%.
In this way, among the 15 municipalities with the most unemployment, eleven belong to the Community of Andalusia and four to the Canary Islands (Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Arrecife, Telde and Santa Cruz de Tenerife).
Regarding activity rates, the cities with the highest in 2021 were Rivas-Vaciamadrid (69.7%), Valdemoro (68.8%) and Parla (67.4%). On the opposite side, the cities with the lowest activity rates were Ferrol (49.9%), León (50.2%) and Salamanca (50.4%).
Pozuelo, the richest municipality in Spain
The INE statistics also include data on average annual income, referring on this occasion to the year 2019. Pozuelo de Alarcón repeats as the city with the highest average annual net income per inhabitant, with 26,367 euros, followed by Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), with 21,976 euros, and Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona), with 21,122 euros.
Thus, and according to the statistics, Madrid and Barcelona concentrate the 10 neighborhoods with the highest average annual net income per inhabitant in Spain.
On the contrary, the cities with the lowest income per inhabitant were Níjar (Almería), with 7,097 euros; Vícar (Almería), with 7,634 euros, and Los Palacios and Villafranca (Seville), with 8,054 euros.
Melilla registers the highest value of children per woman, with 1.97
The published statistics also includes an indicator on life expectancy at birth, which represents the average number of years that a person is expected to live from the moment of birth, has been calculated as an average of three years, with 2019 being the central reference year.
According to the report, three municipalities exceeded 85 years, all of them from Madrid: Pozuelo de Alarcón, Majadahonda and Las Rozas de Madrid. At the opposite extreme, La Línea de la Concepción was the only one of the 126 cities studied with a life expectancy at birth of less than 80 years.
The statistic also incorporates an indicator on the average number of children per woman, which is defined as the average number of children that a woman residing in a municipality would have throughout her fertile life if she maintained the same fertile intensity by age as that observed in a specific year in that municipality.
In 2019 the average number of children per woman in Spain was 1.24. By cities, those with the highest average number of children per woman were Melilla (1.97), Lorca (1.61) and La Línea de la Concepción (1.59).
On the contrary, the lowest averages occurred in the Canary Islands, specifically in San Cristóbal de la Laguna (0.83 children per woman), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (0.90) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (0.90).
functional urban areas
The report published this Monday includes data for what are known as Functional Urban Areas (AUF). Each AUF consists of a city and the municipalities that make up its functional environment, specifically labor influence. 70 functional urban areas are defined for all of Spain. A municipality belongs to the AUF of a city if 15% or more of its employed population moves to that city for work reasons.
In 2021, the AUFs with the largest population were those of Madrid (with 6.98 million people), Barcelona (5.08 million) and Valencia (1.76 million), while the Donostia/San Sebastián area led the average annual net income per inhabitant in 2019, with 16,952 euros, followed by Bilbao (15,456 euros) and Vitoria-Gasteiz (15,362 euros).
For their part, Torrevieja (8,351 euros), Lorca (9,552 euros) and Marbella (9,658 euros) were the Functional Urban Areas that presented the lowest income.
