Arcos de Valdevez
City Statistics
Population
22 847
Area
447.6 km²
District
Viana do Castelo
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.3 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.2 / 20
Housing & Cost
8.2 / 20
Governance
10.1 / 20
Environment
5.1 / 20
News Radar
7.0 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Direct Award Share
22.6%
Data from 2026
P97
Budget Discussion Transparency Rate
93.3%
Data from 2026
P94
EU Funding Activity
4
Data from 2026
P93
Annual Fire Count
207
Data from 2026
P0
Average Fires per Year (10yr)
196
Data from 2024
P2
Fire Occurrences
21
Data from 2026
P3
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City Strategy
Knowledge-base coverage
What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.
Coverage of this analysis: between 35% and 42%
- · Land applicability to be confirmed
- · Document available — needs validation
- · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
These open questions could change the conclusion.
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- · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — New housing
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
- · Missing document — Industry
- · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — Tourist housing in an existing building
The conclusions for Agricultural support, Equipment, Housing extension, New hotel are still subject to confirmation and could still change.
See sources and details
4 of 11 menu operations have a published framework in this release:
Next scheduled review: 2027-01-16. This is an internal review date, not a legal validity date: the law can change before it.
Per operation
- Agricultural support — Published framework
- Agriculture — Partial evidence
- Commerce — Partial evidence
- Equipment — Published framework
- Housing extension — Published framework
- New housing — Partial evidence
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Withheld
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- New hotel — Published framework
This municipality's own plan text
2 document version(s) with 189 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Industry
- · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.