Castelo Branco
City Statistics
Population
52 291
Area
1438.19 km²
District
Castelo Branco
NUTS II
Centro
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.4 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.7 / 20
Housing & Cost
10.2 / 20
Governance
9.6 / 20
Environment
5.7 / 20
News Radar
3.2 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Direct Award Share
16.5%
Data from 2026
P100
Rent Price per m2
€7/m²
Data from 2026
P99
Land Use Activation Signal
31
Data from 2026
P97
Budget Discussion to Contract Ratio
0.00
Data from 2026
P0
Decision Accountability Rate
22.9%
Data from 2026
P1
Heat-Risk Days
13.2%
Data from 2025
P2
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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 7% and 14%
- · Land applicability to be confirmed
- · Document available — needs validation
- · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support
These open questions could change the conclusion.
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- · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
- · Missing document — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
- · Document available — needs validation — New housing
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
- · Document available — needs validation — Industry
- · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Missing document — Tourist housing in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — New hotel
See sources and details
No published framework has been confirmed for any of the 11 menu operations.
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 — Needs confirmation
- Agriculture — Needs confirmation
- Commerce — Withheld
- Equipment — Needs confirmation
- Housing extension — Needs confirmation
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Needs confirmation
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Needs confirmation
This municipality's own plan text
2 document version(s) with 69 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Commerce, Tourist housing in an existing building
- · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.
- · The release does not contain the plan text currently served for this municipality (it is quarantined or awaiting re-certification), so it cannot be cited for it.