Living in Petrer: the figures
- Official name (INE)
- Petrer
- INE code
- 03104
- Province
- Alicante
This page brings together public data about the municipality from Spanish and European agencies: house prices and rents, property tax, who lives here, climate and air, recorded crime, tourist lets, internet coverage and the distance to the nearest airport, station, beach and hospital. Each figure carries its source, its period and the level it was measured at. When an agency publishes a value only for the whole province, we say so next to it; when it publishes nothing for this place, the block says “no data” rather than borrowing a neighbour's figure.
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Property tax (IBI)
- Urban IBI rate, 2025
- 0.97%
The rate applies to the taxable base (cadastral value, less any revaluation reduction); what you actually pay is on the IBI receipt, which you should ask the seller for.
Origen de los datos: Ministerio de Hacienda (SGFAL), Imposición local, ejercicio 2025. Elaboración propia: flatin.es. Updated: 17/10/2026. Imposición local. Tipos de gravamen, índices y coeficientes
Population
- Residents, 01/01/2025
- 34,035
- Share of foreign residents
- 4.4% (1,497 / 34,035)
Numerator and denominator from the same file: INE, annual population census (table 65032).
Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Updated: 15/10/2026. Censos anuales: población por sexo y nacionalidad (española/extranjera), tabla 65032
Prices and sales
- Average appraised value of open-market housing
Period: Q2 2026 - €1,113.1/m²
- Homes over five years old
Period: Q2 2026 - €1,112.4/m²
- Sales of new homes
Period: Q2 2026 - 2
- Sales of resale homes
Period: Q2 2026 - 81
Fuente: Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible. Updated: 17/10/2026. Transacciones inmobiliarias de vivienda nueva por municipios
Fuente: Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible. Updated: 17/10/2026. Transacciones inmobiliarias de vivienda de segunda mano por municipios
Fuente: Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible. Updated: 17/10/2026. Valor tasado medio de vivienda libre, municipios mayores de 25.000 habitantes (tabla 4)
Housing starts and completions
Figures for the whole province: Alicante.
- Started
- open market: 8,482 (07/2025–06/2026) · protected: 735 (07/2025–06/2026)
- Completed
- open market: 5,187 (07/2025–06/2026) · protected: 286 (04/2025–03/2026)
Fuente: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana. Updated: 15/10/2026. Viviendas iniciadas y terminadas, libres y protegidas, por provincia
Rent
- Median rent
- €4.43/m² a month
- Rent, lower quartile
- €3.61/m² a month
- Rent, upper quartile
- €5.54/m² a month
Measured for the municipality · Origen de los datos: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana (SERPAVI), 2024. Updated 17/10/2026.
Gross rental yield
- Gross rental yield
- 4.8%
Measured for the municipality · Rent €4.43/m² a month — Origen de los datos: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana (SERPAVI), 2024. Updated 17/10/2026. · Price €1,113.1/m² — Fuente: Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible, Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026.
Property taxes
- VAT – IVA (new home, first sale)
- 10%
Figure for the whole region (autonomous community) · Law: Ley 37/1992 IVA, art. 91.Uno.1.7º. Checked: 15/10/2026
- AJD stamp duty (new home purchase)
- 1.4%
Figure for the whole region (autonomous community) · Law: Ley 13/1997 Comunitat Valenciana (tramo autonómico IRPF y tributos cedidos), art. 14.Cuatro. Checked: 15/10/2026
- ITP transfer tax (resale home)
- 9% – 11%
Figure for the whole region (autonomous community) · Law: Ley 13/1997 Comunitat Valenciana (tramo autonómico IRPF y tributos cedidos), art. 13.Uno. Checked: 15/10/2026
General rates of the tax territory; reduced rates and their conditions are in the buying guide. How to buy a home in Spain, step by step Work out the taxes and buying costs for a home here
Who lives here
- Population (annual census)
- 34,035
- Foreign residents
- 1,497
- Aged 0 to 15
- 12.97%
- Aged 65 and over
- 19.66%
Measured for the municipality · Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 2025. Updated 17/10/2026.
- Average income per person
- €11,815
- Average household income
- €29,788
- Median income per consumption unit
- €15,750
Measured for the municipality · Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 2023. Updated 17/10/2026.
Foreign residents by nationality
- United Kingdom
- 56
- France
- 17
- Germany
- 18
- Netherlands
- 4
- Belgium
- 13
- Italy
- 72
- Romania
- 58
- Ukraine
- 49
- Russia
- 15
- Morocco
- 97
Measured for the municipality · Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 2025. Updated 17/10/2026.
Climate
- Average January temperature
- 7.3 °C
- Average January low
- 0.6 °C
- Average August high
- 32.5 °C
Station VILLENA, 15.6 km away in a straight line · © AEMET, climate normals 1991–2020. Updated 17/10/2026.
- Annual rainfall
- 284.6 mm
- Days a year at 30 °C or above
- 61.1 days
- Sunshine hours a year
- 3,013 h
Station ALACANT/ALICANTE, 23.9 km away in a straight line · © AEMET, climate normals 1991–2020. Updated 17/10/2026.
Air quality
- Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), annual mean
- 6 µg/m³
- PM10 particles, annual mean
- 8 µg/m³
- PM2.5 particles, annual mean
- 6 µg/m³
- Days with ozone above the target value
- 2 days
Station ELDA-LACY, 8.5 km away in a straight line · Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), 2025. Updated 17/10/2026.
Recorded crime
- Recorded criminal offences
- 1,002 (Provisional figure)
Measured for the municipality · Fuente: Ministerio del Interior, Balance de Criminalidad, 12 months to Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026.
- Per thousand registered residents
- 29.45 (Provisional figure)
Measured for the municipality · Fuente: Ministerio del Interior, Balance de Criminalidad, 12 months to Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026. · Registered population 34,022 — Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 2025. Updated 15/10/2026.
- Per thousand people, including the estimated tourist population
- 29.44 (Provisional figure)
Measured for the municipality · Fuente: Ministerio del Interior, Balance de Criminalidad, 12 months to Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026. · Registered population 34,022 — Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 2025. Updated 15/10/2026. · Beds in tourist lets 50 — Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 05/2026. Updated 17/10/2026. · Occupancy of tourist-let beds in the province — Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 12 months to Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026.
- Violent offences
- 24 (Provisional figure)
- Home burglaries
- 50 (Provisional figure)
- Cybercrime
- 271 (Provisional figure)
Measured for the municipality · Fuente: Ministerio del Interior, Balance de Criminalidad, 12 months to Q2 2026. Updated 17/10/2026.
Tourist lets
- Registered tourist lets
- 11
- Beds in tourist lets
- 50
- Tourist lets as a share of all homes
- 0.07%
Measured for the municipality · Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es, 05/2026. Updated 17/10/2026.
Airport, train, beach and hospital
- Nearest airport
- ALICANTE/Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández
27.5 km in a straight line, not travel time · Fuente: AIP España (ENAIRE). Updated 17/10/2026.
- Nearest high-speed rail station
- Villena Alta Velocidad
16.7 km in a straight line, not travel time · Fuente: Renfe (data.renfe.com). Updated 17/10/2026.
- Nearest long-distance rail station
- Elda-Petrer
7.2 km in a straight line, not travel time · Fuente: Renfe (data.renfe.com). Updated 17/10/2026.
- Nearest hospital
- Hospital General Universitario de Elda-Virgen de La Salud
7.4 km in a straight line, not travel time · Fuente: Ministerio de Sanidad, Catálogo Nacional de Hospitales. Updated 17/10/2026.
Internet coverage
- Homes with fibre (FTTH)
- 97.16%
- Homes with 100 Mbit/s or more
- 97.71%
- Homes with 1 Gbit/s
- 97.19%
- 5G coverage
- 99.52%
Measured for the municipality · Origen de los datos: Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, 2025. Updated 17/10/2026.
Who this place may suit
- Remote workers who need fast internet
Based on: Homes with 1 Gbit/s: 97.19% (≥ 75%)
Origen de los datos: Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, 2025. Updated 17/10/2026.
These are fixed rules applied to the published figures on this page, not our opinion. A rule whose data is missing stays silent.
Methods
How we calculate gross rental yield
Gross yield is the median monthly rent per square metre for flats from the Ministry of Housing's SERPAVI index, multiplied by twelve, divided by the Ministry's average appraised value per square metre. Both periods are shown, because the rent index is published more than a year later than appraisals. It is a figure before property tax, community fees, insurance, empty months and income tax, and it covers declared long-term lets, not holiday rentals. It is information for comparing places, not investment advice.
How we assign weather and air stations
Climate and air are measured at stations, not across a municipality. We take the municipality's main settlement and look for the nearest station: for air, an urban or suburban background station within 10 km whose valid readings cover at least 75% of the year, never a traffic or industrial station; for climate, an AEMET station within 25 km. The station's name and its straight-line distance are shown with the figure. If no station qualifies, the block says “no data”: we do not interpolate or borrow from a neighbouring town.
How we calculate recorded crime
The Interior Ministry's Balance de Criminalidad publishes offences recorded by the police in municipalities with more than twenty thousand inhabitants and in provincial capitals, as totals accumulated from January to the end of each quarter. To compare towns over a full year, we use the latest twelve months: this year's total to date, plus last year's full-year total, minus last year's total to the same quarter. At the end of the year it is simply the annual total. If last year's figures are missing, there is no value.
We then give two rates per thousand people. The first divides by registered residents (the Padrón). The second divides by residents plus the people staying in tourist flats, estimated as tourist-let beds times the province's average occupancy of tourist flats over the same months. In resort towns the second rate is closer to the number of people actually present. If occupancy data is missing for those months, only the first rate is shown.
Recorded crime depends on how often people report and on police activity, not only on how much crime there is.
How we measure distances
Distances to the nearest airport, railway station, beach and hospital are measured in a straight line from the municipality's main settlement, not along roads, so the real journey is longer and its time depends on traffic. Airports come from the official aeronautical publication of Spain (AIP, ENAIRE), stations from Renfe's open timetable data, beaches from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition's beach guide, and hospitals from the Ministry of Health's national hospital catalogue.