📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€539,000
Price per m² (median)€3,150/m²
Half of the homes between €446,000 and €736,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 1,037 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 19% unemployment (census)
🔑 Tenure
80% owned15% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal29% · many 2nd homes
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
Average net household income€45,330
€43,630€46,930
Average net income · Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE), by census tract
🧬 Distinguishing features
Compared with the other areas of its level, in its municipality and in Spain. Its key data is elsewhere on this page.
Of the 1,311 residential buildings in Río Real, 96% are single-family houses. No urbanisation in its municipality has as many houses in proportion. The next one is El Rosario. A typical block has 21 homes. There are 38 buildings with 10 homes or more. No building holds as many homes as the one at Avenida de Alcudia, 2, with 168. There is a pool at 45% of the houses (569 of 1,259). A typical house has 198 m² of floor space on 307 m² of land. In the blocks, each home is around 189 m², shared areas included. The median height is three storeys. Of its buildings, 50% have no more than 2 storeys.
Its median building dates from 1999. Only Altos de Marbella has newer buildings in its municipality. Between 1960 and 1979, 22% went up. Before the NBE-CT-79 standard, 20% were built. Since 2000, 47% of today's buildings have gone up. From 2015 on, 58 new buildings.
According to the 2021 census, 80% of households own their home and 15% rent. Some 29% of homes are not the main home of any household. That share runs from 11% to 70% depending on the census tract. A household takes home an average of about €45,330 net a year.
Sources: Cadastre and CartoCiudad · CasasValue (CASAS.ES) · Household Income Atlas and 2021 Census (INE) · CASAS.ES measurements · boundary: INE (entidad de población) · contorno IGR Poblaciones 2024, © IGN. Data as of 2026-10-19.