The neighborhoods in all of Spain with the highest income, El Viso (40,815 euros), Recoletos (37,067 euros) and Castellana (36,660 euros) in Madrid, multiply by seven the lowest incomes, the Sevillians of Polígono Sur (5,816 euros) and Los Pajaritos and Amate (6,043 euros).
This is clear from the Urban Indicators report of the National Statistics Institute (INE) published today, which in this case uses data on average annual net income per inhabitant for 2020.
According to this study, which adapts to the national level the content of the European Urban Audit project, whose objective is to provide information on living conditions in the main cities of the EU and the candidate countries, 10 of the 15 wealthiest neighborhoods in Spain are in Madrid, four in Barcelona and one in Vitoria.
The aforementioned Madrid neighborhoods are, after El Viso, Recoletos and Castellana, those of Piovera (fourth with 36,045 euros), Nueva España (fifth with 34,317 euros), Almagro (sixth with 33,101 euros), Aravaca-El Plantío-Valdemarín (tenth with 30,073 euros), Palomas (eleventh with 29,573 euros), Niño Jesús-Los Jerónimos (twelfth with 28,864 euros) and Hispanoamérica (thirteenth with 28,417 euros).
The Barcelona ones are Les Tres Torres (seventh with 32,958 euros), Pedralbes (eighth with 32,462), Sant Gervasi-Galvany oest (ninth with 30,407 euros) and Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova (fourth with 28,284 euros) and Vitoriano is Armentía ( fifteenth with 27,499 euros).
Of the fifteen with the lowest income, six are in Seville, three in Córdoba, two in Alicante, two in Madrid, one in Málaga and another in Murcia.
The 15 neighborhoods with the highest average annual income per inhabitant exceed the municipalities that year after year, also this one, appear at the head of this indicator: Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), with 26,009 euros; Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) with 21,304 euros; Majadahonda (Madrid), with 20,672 euros; Las Rozas (Madrid), with 20,605 euros; Getxo (Bizkaia), with 20,292 euros, and Alcobendas (Madrid), with 18,684 euros.
In this classification, the city of Madrid occupies eighth place, with 17,059 euros, just after San Sebastián, with 18,569 euros, and before Barcelona, with 16,750 euros, and Bilbao, which closes the list of the ten municipalities with the highest income. , with 16,026 euros.
By adding the cities and their surroundings, Madrid and its surroundings move to the first position with 16,178 euros. They are followed by Bilbao, with 15,519 euros; Barcelona, with 15,029 euros; Pamplona, with 14,131 euros; and Valencia, with 12,858 euros.
The urban indicators of the INE provide, among many others, data on unemployment or life expectancy, which appear to be directly related to income level.
Thus, the lowest unemployment rates (in this case with data from 2022) correspond to Sant Cugat del Vallès (5.2%), Pozuelo de Alarcón (5.8%), San Sebastián (6.5%) and Las Rozas Madrid (6.7%), while the highest are located in La Línea de la Concepción (29.3%), Ceuta (28%), Linares (25.9%), Jerez de la Frontera and Granada ( both with 24.2%).
In terms of life expectancy, Majadahonda (85.4 years), Las Rozas and Pozuelo de Alarcón (both 85.3 years), the also Madrid municipality of Rivas-Vaciamadrid (85 years) -which is the which has the highest activity rate in Spain (69.8%)- and Getxo (84.7 years).