A precisely a month of municipal elections, Pordata made a portrait of each municipality to help citizens better inform themselves about the place where they live. Here are some of the parallels that the statistical database of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation has established.
The pordata, this Friday, a portrait of a aging country.
Vineyards (Bragança) is the county agedwith 46.3% of the population with 65 or more years, almost double the national average (24.3%).
A Ribeira Grandein the Azores, on the other hand, it is the county youngestwith 143 young people per 100 elderly, while Montijo is the one with the largest demographic vitality, with 85 young people per 100 elderly.
Oleiros (Castelo Branco), in turn, was the municipality that reduced the aging rate between 2021 and 2024, although it remains among the most aged in the country. In a total of the 53 municipalities where there was a reduction in the aging index, 25 are from Alentejo.
Speaking of Alentejo, Odemira (Beja) is the largest Portuguese municipalitywith 1,720.6 km2; while São João da Madeira (Aveiro) is the smallest (7,94 km2).
Alcoutimin the district of Faro, it remains the county with the lowest population density in the country, with 4 residents per square kilometer (km2). In the same space, In Amadora, 7637 people reside.
“A Amadora is the municipality with the most housing houses by km2with 3,643 houses, ”the data also indicates.
Already the municipality of Pondon the island of São Miguel (Azores), “it is the municipality where they were built more new houses In Triénio 2022-2024, in percentage compared to existing ones: 238 ″.
Lisbon remains the most populous municipalitywith 575,739 inhabitants in 2024, more 30,569 than in 2021, representing a growth of 5.6% above the national average, Followed by Sintra (400,947 residents) and Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto), with 312,984.
No ranking relative growth, Óbidos (Leiria) had the highest growth of population compared to the last municipal cycle (2021), with a rise of 10.5%, from 12,410 to 13,720 inhabitants.
Already Barrancos (Beja) presented the largest proportional breakwith less 5.5% of population, falling from 1498 to 1415 inhabitants.
Living in Grândola got cheaper
Lisbon has the median housing priceper square meter, higher in Portugal. Celorico da Beira (Guarda district) has the lowest.
“Lisbon is the municipality with the highest median value per m2, in bank assessment, with 3826 euros in 2024, which represents a growth of almost 23% compared to 2021 [o valor era de 3113 euros] (…) Celorico da Beira is the municipality with the median value of M2 of the lowest houses, in the bank evaluation: 574 euros ”.
Pontalin the autonomous region of Madeira, is “the municipality with the largest growth in the median value From the M2 of Houses, in bank assessment, from 1118 euros in 2021 to 1861 euros in 2024, a growth of 66.4%”.
Between 2021 and 2024, among the five municipalities with the highest variation rate in the median value of the evaluation of houses, there are three Madeiran municipalities: Ponta do Sol, Ribeira Brava and Santa Cruz.
Complete the first five the municipality of Constancy (Santarém District), with a variation rate of 61.3%, from 651 euros to 1050 euros per square meter, and returning to Madeira, Santa Cruzwith a rate of variation of 59.8%, from 1127 euros to 1801 euros per square meter.
In the opposite direction, the Variation rate was negative at 2.5% in Grândola (District of Setúbal), having the average price of the descended evaluation of 2143 euros to 2090 euros per square meter.
Already on positive land, but with the Lower climb, are idon-a-nova (Castelo Branco District), with a variation rate of 0.5% (582 euros to 585 euros per square meter), Vouzela (Viseu District), with 6.9% (696 euros for 744 euros), Major Campo (Portalegre District), with 7.3% (768 euros for 824 euros) and Candle (São Jorge Island, in the Autonomous Region of the Azores), with 7.6% (816 euros for 878 euros).
The data published by Pordata were released one month from the municipal elections of 12 October, in a portal with 41 indicators organized by seven themes (population; education; housing; employment and companies; access to services and culture; Turismo; territory and environment) for 308 Portuguese municipalities.
