📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€191,000
Price per m² (median)€1,360/m²
Half of the homes between €113,000 and €302,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 39,625 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 25% unemployment (census)
Average net household income€33,890
Highest: Alhaurín de la Torre€44,510
Lowest: Tolox€24,470
Average net income · Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE), by census tract
🔑 Tenure
82% owned7.5% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal25% · 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.
The latest register gives the Valle del Guadalhorce comarca 168,354 residents: 2,580 more than the one before. It is the comarca in its province that grows the most. In its 5 most populous municipalities, the register changes like this: Alhaurín de la Torre (+2.3%), Cártama (+1.4%), Alhaurín el Grande (−0.3%), Coín (+3%) and Álora (+0.6%). By municipality, 9 go up and 3 go down. Among places over 500 inhabitants, population rises most in Guaro, Tolox and Coín. At the other end, Yunquera loses 1.4% of its population, and Alhaurín el Grande and Alozaina also shrink.
Alhaurín el Grande has the highest crime rate of the 4 municipalities with data (36.0 per 1,000 inhabitants a year); Alhaurín de la Torre, the lowest (23.3). Taken together they reach 28.5; in Spain, 38.5. Those with data hold 76% of the population; the other municipalities have no published report.
The 2021 census counts 7.5% of households renting and 82% owning. Monda has the highest share of renting households, 13%. Some 25% of homes are not the main home of any household. That figure for its 5 largest municipalities: Alhaurín de la Torre (15%), Cártama (27%), Alhaurín el Grande (24%), Coín (26%) and Álora (27%).
Sources: Municipal register (INE) · Household Income Atlas (INE) · PVGIS (sunshine) · Ministry of the Interior (crime). Data as of 2026-10-17.