Of the 416 municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants in Spain, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) is the one with the highest average annual income and the lowest unemployment rate, a figure that contrasts with those of Níjar and Linares, both in Andalusia and that close the respective lists.
Specifically, the statistics published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) places the average income in that Madrid town at 26,367 euros. They are followed by Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), with 21,976 euros, and Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona), with 21,122 euros.
In contrast, at the bottom of the list are Níjar (Almería), with 7,097 euros per year, Vícar (Almería), with 7,634 euros, and Los Palacios and Villafranca (Seville), with 8,054 euros, as the cities with the lowest income. per inhabitant in 2019, the last year analyzed to date.
The concentration of the highest average income is located in Madrid and Barcelona, which are home to the 10 neighborhoods with the highest income, seven in the capital and four in the city of Barcelona. El Viso (Madrid) stands out, with 42,107 euros, Castellana (MAD), with 37,212, Piovera (MAD), with 36,928, Recoletos (MAD) with 35,613, Pedralbes (Barcelona), with 34,522 and Tres Torres (BCN), with 33,948. euro.
And the ‘poorest’ neighbourhoods? The statistics look above all at Andalusia. Polígono Sur (Seville) is the one with the lowest income per capita, with 5,666 euros. They are followed by Los Pajaritos/Amate (Seville), with 6,042, Juan XXIII (Alicante), with 6,272, Colores/Entreparques (Seville), with 6,801, San Cristóbal (Madrid), with 6,955 and Azahara-Palmeras (Córdoba), with 7,361 euros on average.
Madrid and Barcelona also concentrate the municipalities with the least unemployment
It coincides that Pozuelo (Madrid) is also the municipality with the lowest average unemployment rate (division of the average number of unemployed and the active population (sum of employed and unemployed)) estimated in 2021 of the 126 largest cities analyzed by the INE. In total, Pozuelo has an unemployment rate of 6.2%. The second position is for Sant Cugat del Vallès (6.4%) and the third, for Las Rozas de Madrid (7.1%).
The Madrid municipalities of Majadahonda (7.4%), Donostia/San Sebastián (7.8%) and Getxo (7.9%)) also stand out for their low unemployment rates.
As with the average annual income, the Community of Madrid and Catalonia concentrate the municipalities with the lowest estimated unemployment rates for 2021. Specifically, the first is home to six of the 15 where unemployment hits the least and the second, to four. The rest are divided between the Basque Country (three) and Galicia (two).
Returning to the opposite side of the list, the three cities with the highest unemployment rates are Linares (Jaén), with a 30.9% unemployment rate, La Línea de la Concepción (30.3%) and Alcalá de Guadaíra ( 26.9%).
In this case, among the first five municipalities with the most unemployment, four are located in Andalusia: Linares, La Línea de la Concepción, Alcalá de Guadaira (26.9%) and Jerez de la Frontera (26%). The fifth is Santa Lucía de Tirajana, in Gran Canaria, with 26%.
Thus, among the 15 municipalities with the most unemployment, eleven belong to Andalusia and four to the Canary Islands (Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Arrecife, Telde and Santa Cruz de Tenerife).
Regarding activity rates (quotient between the active population and the population aged 16 and over), the cities with the highest in 2021 were Rivas-Vaciamadrid (69.7%), Valdemoro (68.8%) and Talk (67.4%).
On the opposite side, the cities with the lowest activity rates were Ferrol (49.9%), León (50.2%) and Salamanca (50.4%).
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