📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€503,000
Price per m² (median)€2,650/m²
Half of the homes between €393,000 and €647,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 630 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 17% unemployment (census)
🔑 Tenure
70% owned14% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal62% · highly seasonal
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
Average net household income€37,170
€36,470€38,540
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.
Of the 9,472 residents of Benahavís, 62% are foreign nationals. It is the municipality in its comarca with the largest foreign population in proportion. Manilva follows. The most numerous foreign nationalities are the United Kingdom (1,880), Russia (495), France (215), Germany (210) and Italy (207). The largest foreign nationality is British, with 1,880 residents: 32% of all foreign nationals. It holds 3.3% of the foreign population of its comarca.
One school in Benahavís is Daidin, according to OpenStreetMap (July 2026). There are pharmacies in the municipality such as Farmacia Monte Halcones. There is at least one supermarket in the municipality: Mercadona.
Its median building dates from 2003. No municipality in its comarca has a newer housing stock. Mijas follows. By decade, the 2000s built the most, with 967 buildings; then the 1980s, with 444. Of its buildings, 4.1% date from the sixties and seventies. Before the NBE-CT-79 standard, 4.9% were built. Since 2000, 65% of today's buildings have gone up. From 2015 on, 429 new buildings. There are energy certificates for 468 buildings, 20%. The most common rating is E. With an A or B rating there are 64. Of the certificates, 8.5% carry an F or G. The mayor is José Antonio Mena Castilla (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 2026-10-16.