📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€101,000
Price per m² (median)€740/m²
Half of the homes between €84,000 and €125,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 1,589 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 27% unemployment (census)
🔑 Tenure
78% owned8% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal56% · highly seasonal
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
Average net household income€25,100
Average net income · Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE), by census tract
🧬 Distinguishing features
Compared with the other municipalities nearby and in Spain. Its key data is elsewhere on this page.
The median year of the residential buildings in Alcaucín is 1998. Only Viñuela has newer buildings in its comarca. By decade, the 2000s built the most, with 846 buildings; then the 1990s, with 340. Of its buildings, 9.9% date from the sixties and seventies. Before the NBE-CT-79 standard, 29% were built. Since 2000, 46% of today's buildings have gone up. From 2015 on, 19 new buildings. There are energy certificates for 126 buildings, 6.5%. The rating that appears most is E. Only 2 have an A or B, the best ratings. Of the certificates, 20% carry an F or G.
For schooling, options in Alcaucín include Colegio Público Alejandro García Garrido, according to OpenStreetMap (July 2026). One supermarket in the municipality is Arkwrights.
Of its residents, 42% have a foreign nationality. By share of foreign nationals it sits between Viñuela (43%) and Comares (39%). By number of residents, the leading foreign nationalities are the United Kingdom (683), Morocco (145), Germany (44), France (7) and Romania (7). The largest foreign nationality is British, with 683 residents: 61% of all foreign nationals. Alcaucín is home to 3% of the foreign nationals of its comarca. The mayor is Ágata Noemí González Martín (PSOE-A).
Sources: Municipal register (INE) · Cadastre · CasasValue (CASAS.ES) · Household Income Atlas and 2021 Census (INE) · PVGIS (sunshine) · Register of local officials · Ministry of the Interior (crime). Data as of 2026-10-17.