Unemployment in Santa Cruz de Tenerife continues to lead the state as a whole, with a rate of 24.3%. This is reflected in the statistics ‘Urban Indicators 2022‘ published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), in which the Gran Canaria municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana ranks as the fifth municipality with the highest unemployment rate in the entire country with 26%.
In addition to the statistics unemployment in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, three other municipalities in the Canary Islands, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Arrecife and Telde, appear among the 15 with the most unemployment in the entire country. 11 of them are located in Andalusia, in addition to the other four, in the Islands.
Ahead of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, the first four municipalities with the most unemployment 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%).
Unemployment in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and situation in the rest of the country
In contrast, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) is the municipality with the highest average income and the lowest unemployment rate in all of Spain. According to Statistics data, Pozuelo (Madrid) is the municipality in Spain with the lowest estimated average unemployment rate in 2021, with 6.2%, followed by Sant Cugat del Vallès (6.4%) and Las Rozas de Madrid (7.1%).
On the other hand, 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 municipality of Majadahonda (7.4%), Donostia/San Sebastián (7.8%) and Getxo (7.9%) also stand out for their low unemployment rates.
In this way, of the 15 municipalities with the lowest estimated average unemployment rates for 2021, six are in the Community of Madrid, four in Catalonia, three in the Basque Country and two in Galicia.
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 average annual income data, this time referring 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.
Melilla, where they have more children
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.
The statistics published this Monday also incorporate 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, it has been calculated as an average of three years, with 2019 being the year reference center.
According to the report, three municipalities were over 85 years old, 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 resident in a municipality would have throughout her fertile life if she maintained the same fertility intensity by age as 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 were 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
In the report published this Monday, the data for what are known as Functional Urban Areas (AUF) are included. Each AUF consists of a city and the municipalities that form its functional environment, specifically of labor influence. 70 functional urban areas are defined for the whole 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 net income annual average 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 with the lowest incomes.
