Andalusia concentrates twelve of the fifteen cities with the highest unemployment at the national level and, in turn, registers ten of the fifteen neighborhoods with the lowest income, according to data from the Urban Indicators, corresponding to 2023, published this Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Specifically, the ten Andalusian neighborhoods with the lowest average annual net income are Polígono Sur (5,816 euros), Los Pajaritos and Amate (6,043 euros) in Seville, followed in the list of 15, in fourth position by zone 9-A, partially occupied by the Colores/Entreparques neighborhood, also in Seville (6,889 euros).

In sixth place is Azahar-Palmeras in Córdoba, with an average annual income of 7,483 euros per person, followed by the Polígono del Guadalquivir, also in Córdoba, with 7,488 euros, while Rosaleda is in ninth place: Palma-Palmilla in Málaga, with 7,641 euros. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth positions are once again occupied by three neighborhoods in Seville, while the thirteenth is the South Sector of Córdoba.

Regarding the unemployment rate, La Línea de la Concepción heads the list of cities, with 29.3%, followed by Linares (Jaén), with 25.9%; Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), with 24.2%; Grenada, with 24.2%; Algeciras (Cádiz), with 23.5%; Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), with 23.3%; Cordoba (22.2%); Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), with 22.1%; Cádiz, with 21.6%; Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville), with 21.2%, and El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), with 21%.

The INE collects other types of indicators such as life expectancy and highlights that, of the list of 15 cities with the lowest life expectancy, nine are Andalusian. The record is headed by La Línea de la Concepción (79.3), followed by Algeciras (Cádiz), with 80.2 years; Linares (Jaén) and Cádiz, with 80.6; Almería, Huelva and El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), with 81.1; Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) and Malaga, with 81.2 years.

Regarding the average number of children per woman, at the national level this indicated was 1.19, standing out among the Andalusians, La Línea de la Concepción (1.49), followed by Almería (1.43). In contrast, among the cities where women have the lowest average number of children is Cádiz, with 0.96.

The case of the Cádiz city of La Línea de la Concepción should be highlighted as it is on the list of cities with the lowest life expectancy (79.3 years), the highest average number of children (1.49) and the highest unemployment rate ( 29.3%).

Regarding the foreign population (indicator that relates the resident population with foreign nationality to the total resident population), the percentage of foreigners in Spain as of January 1, 2022 was 11.7%.

By cities, those with the highest percentages of foreigners were Torrevieja (40.7%), Fuengirola (37.6%) and Benidorm (29.6%). At the opposite extreme, the lowest percentages were in San Fernando (1.6%), Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1.9%) and Cádiz (2.2%), all in the province of Cádiz.

The ‘Urban Indicators’ publication derives from the European Urban Audit Project, which collects information on living conditions in the cities of the European Union and candidate countries. This is a project launched at the end of the 1990s by the General Directorate for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), coordinated by Eurostat and developed by the Statistical Offices of the participating States.

As the INE recalls, its objective is the collection, estimation and publication of comparable statistical data of socioeconomic content to know and measure the quality of life in a certain number of territorial areas related to the urban environment.