MADRID, 29 OCTOBER (.) – Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) remains the municipality with more than 2,000 inhabitants in 2022 and has the highest income in Spain, with an average income of 29,258 euros per inhabitant. , that number has nearly quadrupled. The municipality with the lowest income is Huésa (Jaén), with 7,603 euros.
INE published on Tuesday this week the Household Income Distribution Atlas, which provides information on the income of individuals and households based on their geographical distribution, based on data from the Tax Agency and the tax authorities of the Basque Country and Navarre.
This statistic differs slightly from the Internal Revenue Service’s statistic, which provides data by taxpayer (i.e., person filing a tax return), as it considers each household’s income based on the residents living in that household. Masu. income), and only from autonomous communities of common administration.
In the 2022 statistics, it remained the municipality with the highest income, joining Pozuelo, Matadepera (Barcelona, 24,814 euros) and Boadilla del Monte (Madrid, 24,748 euros).
Below are Sant Justo des Bains (Barcelona, 23,701 euros), Sant Cugat del Valles (Barcelona, 23,337 euros), Torrerodones (Madrid, 23,173 euros), Arera (Barcelona, 22,937 euros), Getxo (Vizcaya, 22,802 euros) ).
The 15 municipalities with the highest average incomes were located in four provinces: Madrid, Barcelona, Vizcaya, and Gipuzkoa.
The municipalities with the lowest average income after Huesa are Iznalhos (Granada, 7,777 euros), El Palmar de Troya (Seville, 7,779 euros), Albuñol (Granada, 7,949 euros) and La Mojonera (Almeria, 8,037 euros). ), Purna (Seville, 8,118 euros).
Of the 15 municipalities with the lowest average income, 12 are in Andalusia, two in Extremadura and one in Castilla-La Mancha.
Almost 90% of Basque Country municipalities are high-income
This statistic reveals large geographic disparities in income. 88.4% of Basque Country municipalities are in the highest income 25% (i.e. with an average income of more than 15,073 euros), while 84.4% of Murcians are in the lowest income 25% Because it is included in Income (less than 11,537 euros).
INE also analyzes the distribution of so-called very high income earners. This corresponds to 10% of the highest income section of the census, and those who will earn more than €19,186 on average in 2022.
While 60.4% of the census in San Sebastian and 39.3% in Madrid had very high incomes, there were none in Cuenca and only 1.6% in Pontevedra.
By region, the highest incomes in 2022 were Gipuzkoa (18,325 euros), Vizcaya (17,225 euros), Madrid (17,131 euros), Almería (10,605 euros) and Jaén (1 (11,074 euros) followed by Badajoz (11,158 euros). With the lowest income.
