Pozuelo de Alarcón repeats as the municipality with the highest average income and twelve of the fifteen with the lowest are in Andalusia
The household income of Pozuelo de Alarcón, which reaches an average of 30,524 euros, triples that of Iznalloz (Granada), the municipality of 2,000 inhabitants where this variable is lower, given that it stands at 8,399 euros per family. The Atlas of household income distribution released this Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) places the fifteen municipalities with the highest average income in three provinces: Madrid, Barcelona and Vizcayaand Euskadi as the autonomy where almost nine out of every ten towns of that size have high income.
The data, the latest available to the statistical agency, are relative to the year 2023. They are extracted from the Tax Agency (AEAT) and the provincial administrations of the Basque Country and Navarra, an aspect in which it differs from that published by the Treasury, since it is limited to the common regime autonomies and takes only as a reference the data per taxpayer – those of those who have submitted the income tax return – and not their income based on the members who They make up the home, which is what the atlas published by the INE measures.
Behind Pozuelo de Alarcón, the AEAT places as municipalities with the highest average income per family the Barcelona municipalities of Alella (25,382 euros) and Sant Just Desvern (25,286 euros), the Madrid town of Torrelodones (25,127 euros), the Barcelona town of Sant Cugat del Vallès (24,748 euros) and the Biscayan town of Getxo. (24,626 euros).
On the opposite side of the ranking, that of the municipalities with the lowest income per family, are – apart from Iznalloz – El Palmar de Troya (Seville, 8,688 euros), Huesa (Jaén, 8,825 euros), Albuñol (Granada, 8,839 euros), Chozas de Canales (Toledo, 8,922 euros), Montejícar (Granada, 8,923 euros) and Níjar (Almería, 8,989 euros). There is also a notable geographical concentration, since of the fifteen municipalities with the lowest average income, twelve are in Andalusia, two in Extremadura and one in Castilla-La Mancha.
