They only share the name. Ciutat Jardí is in Lleida and is the second neighborhood with the highest average income in Spain -among municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants-; Ciudad Jardín is in Alicante and is among the poorest. The average gross income of the Catalan "garden" is 102,360 euros per year; that of the Alicante, 17,562 euros, almost six times less.
These are official data from the Tax Agency corresponding to the 2021 financial year. Among the four most populated Valencian cities, the increase in income experienced by the Pla del Remei neighborhood in Valencia is striking, where gross income reached 100,318 euros annually. compared to 81,775 in 2020. With this notable increase, it placed itself in third place in the table and surpassed the Salamanca-Goya neighborhood of Madrid (99,147 euros), although it is still far from the first, La Moraleja, also in Madrid , which exceeds 190,000 euros.
But Valencia's prominence is also evident at the bottom of the classification. Three neighborhoods, Nou Alacant and the aforementioned Ciudad Jardín in Alicante and Carrús in Elx, are among the lowest-income in Spain, although far from the most impoverished, Torreblanca (Seville), where they barely have 10,780 gross euros on average. Nou Alacant comes next, it is at 15,760 euros; Carrús-Plaza de Barcelona (Elx) follows, with 15,959 euros, and only behind San Matías-Los Andenes-Las Chumberas (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Ciudad Jardín (Alicante) appears, with 17,562 euros.
The trend compared to last year also increases the differences. An example, while the richest neighborhood in Alicante - Playa de San Juan - has increased its average income by more than 2,000 euros per year, going from a gross income of 38,558 euros to 40,778 in the last fiscal year recorded, in the poorest area - Nou Alacant- the annual income has decreased almost 1,000 euros: from 16,713 to 15,760 euros in 2021.
From the Tax Agency data, it is also clear that the Valencian Community is the tenth in Spain in average gross income (to the eight that appear ahead in the Treasury data, we must add the Basque Country, whose data does not appear, but also are superior).
And within the Community, the average income of the largest municipalities (the three provincial capitals and Elx), which is 29,758 euros per year, exceeds the average income of the entire Valencian territory by more than 3,000 euros, which is 26,346 euros. .
