📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€115,000
Price per m² (median)€1,290/m²
Half of the homes between €99,000 and €149,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 1,446 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 24% unemployment (census)
🔑 Tenure
78% owned9.3% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal46% · highly seasonal
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
Average net household income€26,710
€23,690€29,960
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 latest register gives Algarrobo 7,103 inhabitants: 194 more than the one before. It amounts to 2.8% on the previous register. Just above it is Torrox, with 22,015 inhabitants, and just below, Cómpeta, with 3,824. Algarrobo is home to 3.1% of the inhabitants of its comarca. In its comarca, only Árchez grows faster in proportion.
For schooling, options in Algarrobo include CEIP José Gil López, Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Enrique Ramos Ramos and Escuela Infantil Arco Iris, according to OpenStreetMap (July 2026). Pharmacies in the municipality include Farmacia Ambrosio Bolívar. Supermarkets in the municipality include Covirán, Dia and Lidl.
Its residential buildings stand on 126 streets; the one with the most is Partida Fuente Ariza, with 73. By type, they include 95 streets, 8 rural districts and 6 avenues. Behind it are Avenida Andalucía (66) and Avenida Karat (48). By number of homes, however, Avenida Andalucía comes first, with 907. The oldest buildings are on Partida Cajorros, with a median year of 1935, and the newest on Calle Dama de Noche, from 2009. Calle Camino Camarillas is the street of pools: 8 houses have one. Its postcodes run from 29750 to 29751: 2 in all. The mayor is Natacha Rivas Campos (PP).
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.