Three municipalities in the Community of Madrid –Pozuelo de Alarcón, Boadilla del Monte and Las Rozas de Madrid- are those with the highest average annual net income per capita, according to the Urban Indicators report published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The inhabitants of Pozuelo de Alarcón have an average annual income of 23,861 euros per capita, which places this Madrid municipality at the top of this ranking. At a considerable distance is the second municipality, Boadilla del Monte, with 19,510 euros, and the third is Las Rozas, which has an average income per inhabitant of 18,798 euros.
To prepare this ranking, which includes all Spanish municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, the average annual net income corresponding to the year 2015 from tax sources has been taken into account. The Urban Indicators report is a selection and adaptation of the European project Urban Audit, which collects information on living conditions in cities of the European Union and candidate countries.
Majadahonda, also from the Community of Madrid, occupies the fourth place in the ranking with a per capita income of 18,627 euros, while Sant Cugat del Vallès, in the province of Barcelona, is fifth with 18,326 euros.
The city of Madrid occupies the 15th position in the ranking with 15,257 euros of average income per inhabitant, while Barcelona appears two positions later, in 17th place, with an income of 14,946 euros per capita.
The following graph shows the list of the 30 Spanish municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants with the highest per capita income:
On the contrary, the cities with a lower income per inhabitant are Níjar (Almería), with 6,264 euros, Los Palacios y Villafranca (Seville), with 6,327 euros, and Alhaurín el Grande (Málaga), with 6,474 euros.
The list of the 30 Spanish municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants with a lower per capita income is as follows: