📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€261,000
Price per m² (median)€2,390/m²
Half of the homes between €160,000 and €382,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 46,752 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 24% unemployment (census)
Average net household income€31,050
Highest: Rincón de la Victoria€38,030
Lowest: Salares€19,810
Average net income · Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE), by census tract
🔑 Tenure
80% owned10% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal35% · many 2nd homes
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
🧬 Distinguishing features
Compared with the other comarcas in its province and in Spain. Its key data is elsewhere on this page.
Solar radiation in the Axarquía comarca ranges from 2.4 kWh/m² a day in December to 7.9 in July. It leads the comarcas in its province in solar radiation. In its 5 most populous municipalities, the yearly average of sunshine is, in kWh/m² a day: Vélez-Málaga (5.2), Rincón de la Victoria (5.1), Nerja (5.2), Torrox (5.2) and Algarrobo (5.2). The one receiving the most radiation over the year is Cómpeta; the least, Alfarnatejo. In December, Viñuela takes the lead instead. The sun delivers more than 6 kWh/m² a day from May to August. The yearly average is 5.1 kWh/m² a day.
It has 31 municipalities, and 10 have fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. In 3 municipalities, fewer than five hundred people live. At the other end of the register are Salares, with 194 registered residents, and Alfarnatejo, Árchez and Macharaviaya. Ranked by population, the one in the middle has about 1,672 inhabitants. In the last year 3 of those 10 small municipalities lost residents. Among the small ones there are growers too: Árchez, Cútar and Totalán.
🟢 Your neighbours
👥 232,822 residents (2025 register)📈 +0.7% in a year🌍 16% foreign residents🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 9,847🇲🇦 Morocco: 4,113🇩🇪 Germany: 3,586🇮🇹 Italy: 1,475🇷🇴 Romania: 1,073
Municipal register (INE) · largest nationalities · Register of local elected officials
Sources: Municipal register (INE) · Household Income Atlas (INE) · PVGIS (sunshine) · Ministry of the Interior (crime). Data as of 2026-10-17.