The INE places Pozuelo de Alarcón as the municipality in Madrid with the highest income per capita in 2024. Parla, in the south of the region, records the lowest figure among the large cities.
According to Noticias para Municipios, a resident of Pozuelo de Alarcón had an average net income of €32,612 in 2024, while in Parla the figure was €12,175 per inhabitant. Both municipalities are separated by about twenty kilometres. The data comes from the 'Atlas of Household Income Distribution', published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Pozuelo de Alarcón tops the ranking in the Community of Madrid and also nationally among municipalities with more than 2,000 inhabitants, for the fourth consecutive year. Following in the country are Boadilla del Monte, third with €28,382, and Torrelodones, fourth with €26,573. Las Rozas de Madrid (€26,014) and Majadahonda (€25,878) complete the leading group regionally.
At the opposite end, Parla falls below the threshold of €13,407 that marks the 25% of municipalities with the lowest income in the country. Its figure is also lower than that of Almería, the poorest province in Spain, with €12,244. Behind Parla are Cenicientos (€12,240), Orusco de Tajuña (€12,613), Valdilecha (€12,726) and Villaconejos (€12,766), all small municipalities.
Among the large cities in the metropolitan area, Alcobendas reaches €23,325 per inhabitant and the capital €20,861, both above the Spanish average of €15,948. Getafe (€16,767), Alcorcón (€16,534) and Alcalá de Henares (€16,532) exceed this average by a smaller margin. Below are Leganés (€15,370), Torrejón de Ardoz (€15,331), Móstoles (€14,858) and Fuenlabrada (€14,321).
In the regional total, 97 of the 179 municipalities exceed the national average income and 82 are below it. Additionally, 64 Madrid municipalities are part of the 25% with the highest income in the country, above €17,157, while 22 belong to the 25% with the lowest income. The Community of Madrid is the third province with the highest average net income in Spain, with €19,277 per inhabitant, only behind Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya. The national average income grew by 6.1%.
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