One more year, the National Statistics Institute (INE) publishes a new edition of its Urban Indicators project, where this 2022 Pozuelo de Alarcón, in Madrid, stands out for having the highest average income per inhabitant (with data from 2019) and the lowest unemployment rate in all of Spain, among 416 municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants analyzed.
From idealisticwe cross the current average prices of the Southern European Real Estate Marketplace Price Report, whose last monthly study was published at the beginning of May, with the data of the average annual net income of households (its latest data is from 2019) of these medium and large municipalities (with more than 20,000 inhabitants) that have a net income above the national averagewhich according to the INE is in 30,690 euros/year per household.
That’s how he is house prices in the 201 richest municipalities in Spain. Discover the towns with the highest income in your province, and how the price of housing for sale is and has evolved. In fact, almost all the provinces are represented on the list, although Barcelona, with 45 municipalities, and Madrid (34) are the ones with the largest populations. While some of the towns in the Balearic Islands (13) and Guipúzcoa (7) stand out for the high prices of their homes.
By annual net household income figures, the towns in the province of Madrid monopolize the first positions, highlighting the municipalities of Alarcon (84,460 euros/year), Boadilla del Monte (73,743 euros/year), Torrelodones (68,274 euros/year) and Majadahonda (65,484 euros/year). The Catalan town of Sant Cugat del Vallès (64,376 euros/year) is the only one that ‘sneaks in’ before the Madrid domain for household income.
The top 10 are completed by Las Rozas (64,303 euros/year), Villanueva de la Cañada (60,759 euros/year), Villaviciosa de Odón (57,226 euros/year), Alcobendas (56,931 euros/year) and Tres Cantos (56,868 euros/year). ).
The first towns outside the province of Madrid that appear after Sant Cugat are Sant Quirze del Vallès (54,782 euros/year), also in Barcelona; Getxo (52,537 euros/year), in Vizcaya, or Marratxí (45,459 euros/year), in the Balearic Islands.
On this occasion, the large capitals appear in intermediate positions. Following the table for data on net household income, it appears in 19th place, Saint Sebastian (44,674 euros/year), ahead of Madrid (24th) and its 43,393 euros/year. Barcelona It is in position 36, with 41,046 euros/year.
On the opposite side of the table, in this analysis of the municipalities with the net household income above the national average appear Calahorra (30,723 euros/year), in La Rioja; and the provincial capitals of Córdoba (30,730 euros/year) and Badajoz (30,732 euros/year), with figures very close to the national average.
The richest municipalities in the Balearic Islands account for the highest housing prices
The classification among the municipalities (with more than 20,000 inhabitants) with the highest income per household changes completely if we compare the average prices of homes for sale. On this occasion, they are the municipalities of the Balearic Islands of Sant Josep de sa Talaia (5,616 euros/m2), Santa Eulària des Riu (5,447 euros/m2) and Ibiza (5,169 euros/m2), the three on the island of Ibiza, those with the highest values. They accompany in these offered prices of housing for sale above 5,000 euros/m2 the city of Donosti (5,006 euros/m2). Of these four towns, San Sebastián is the one with the highest household income, 44,674 euros/year, ahead of the Ibizan capital (41,883 euros/year).
The list of municipalities by house price continues: Calvià (4,795 euros/m2), in Mallorca; Zarautz (4,708 euros/m2), in Guipúzcoa and again another town in Ibiza, Sant Antoni de Portmany (4,003 euros/m2). Three Barcelona towns complete the top 10, the capital Barcelona (3,999 euros/m2), Sitges (3,963 euros/m2) and Sant Cugat del Vallès (3,957 euros/m2).
Of these 10 municipalities with the most expensive house prices, Sant Cugat is the only one that repeats among the highlights on both lists. House prices in the richest towns in Spain vary from 3,418 euros/m2 in Majadahonda to 3,389 euros/m2 in Pozuelo de Alarcón.
They are followed by Las Rozas de Madrid (2,908 euros/m2), Tres Cantos (2,753 euros/m2), Boadilla del Monte (2,645 euros/m2) and Alcobendas (2,563 euros/m2). Below 2,500 euros/m2 follow Villaviciosa de Odón (2,349 euros/m2), Villanueva de la Cañada (2,321 euros/m2) and Torrelodones (2,128 euros/m2).
Of the municipalities with household income above the national average, the cheapest prices are those of the Tarragona towns of Tortosa (796 euros/m2) and Valls (889 euros/m2), accompanied by that of Villarreal (835 euros /m2), in Castellón, and Molina de Segura (908 euros/m2), in Murcia.
