Matadepera once again sneaks onto the podium of the municipalities with the highest income per capita in Spain, with an average of 22,806 euros in 2020. The municipality of Vallès is only surpassed by Madrid's Pozuelo de Alarcón, where its little more than 2,000 inhabitants enjoy of a net income per capita of 26,009 euros, according to data published yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in the Atlas of household income distribution.
Both towns compete year after year to lead the rankings of the richest municipalities in Spain. In fact, in 2018 it was the Barcelonan that won the first position, boosted by the impact that the presence in its census of one of the wealthiest citizens in Spain generates on the average income of its inhabitants. This is Manuel Lao, founder of the Cirsa gaming company, which that year he sold to the US fund Blackstone, which triggered his income and therefore the average calculated at the time by the Tax Agency.
Even so, Matadepera is not the only municipality in the province of Barcelona in the top ten of the richest. If third place is occupied by the town of Boadilla del Monte, also in Madrid, Sant Just Desvern appears in the next three positions, with average income per inhabitant of 21,510 euros; Sant Cugat del Vallès, with 21,304 euros; and Alella, with 20,913 euros.
The conclusions drawn annually by the Household Income Distribution Atlas are the result of calculating the income of individuals and households based on their geographical distribution based on data from the Tax Agency and the tax administrations of the Basque Country and Navarre.
This statistic takes into account the income of each household based on the inhabitants who live in it, so it is slightly different from that published by the Tax Agency, which provides data by taxpayer (that is, of those who have filed a tax return). income) and only from the autonomous communities of the common regime.
In fact, there are only two municipalities among the twenty with the highest income that are neither in Madrid nor Barcelona: Getxo (Vizcaya), which ranks tenth with 20,293 euros per capita; and Rocafort (Valencia), which occupies seventeenth place, with 18,955 euros.
At the other end of the table, the municipalities with the lowest income per inhabitant in 2020 were El Palmar de Troya (Seville, with 6,785 euros), Iznalloz (Granada, with 7,036 euros), Albuñol (Granada, 7,061 euros), Huesa ( Jaén, 7,080 euros) and Pruna (Seville, 7,219 euros).
One more year, the INE statistics reveal a great inequality of income by geographical location. While 88.8% of the municipalities of the Basque Country are among the 25% of those with the highest income in Spain, 83.3% of the Andalusian municipalities are among the 25% of those with the lowest income.
