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Lagos

Faro
44 credits+7.3%
Foral Index: 47.8

City Statistics

Population

33 045

Area

212.99 km²

District

Faro

NUTS II

Algarve

Category Breakdown

Performance across 6 scoring categories

People & Families

7.7 / 20

Economy & Jobs

10.2 / 20

Housing & Cost

6.0 / 20

Governance

9.5 / 20

Environment

6.1 / 20

News Radar

8.2 / 20

Top Scoring Drivers

Key indicators affecting this city's score

Emergency Data Coverage

SNS Tempos - Hospital Metadata
People & Families

1.00

Data from 2026

P100

Top 4 Companies Employment Share (%)

PORDATA
Economy & Jobs

3.0%

Data from 2024

P100

Fire Risk Index

IPMA - Instituto Portugues do Mar e Atmosfera
Environment

1.00

Data from 2026

P99

Annual purchasing capacity — m² per 14 average salaries

Foral Intelligence
Housing & Cost

4,4 m²

Data from 2026

P0

Housing Sale Price Median

PORDATA
Housing & Cost

€3781/m²

Data from 2024

P1

Median Housing Price

INE - Instituto Nacional de Estatistica
Housing & Cost

€3801/m²

Data from 2025

P1

Recent News

Civic

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Governance Digest

PDM — map and rules

Land classes, constraints and building rules for the concelho.

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City Strategy

Knowledge-base coverage

What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.

Review mode: Automatic (no operator review)Release: r39

Coverage of this analysis: between 21% and 28%

Still to confirm:
  • · Land applicability to be confirmed
  • · Document available — needs validation
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support

These open questions could change the conclusion.

See all (11)
  • · Missing document — Agriculture
  • · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
  • · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
  • · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
  • · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
  • · Document available — needs validation — Industry
  • · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
  • · Document available — needs validation — Tourist housing in an existing building

The conclusions for New housing, New hotel are still subject to confirmation and could still change.

See sources and details

3 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 — Withheld
  • Commerce — Partial evidence
  • Equipment — Partial evidence
  • Housing extension — Partial evidence
  • New housing — Published framework
  • Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
  • Industry — Partial evidence
  • Rural tourism in an existing building — Partial evidence
  • Tourist housing in an existing building — Partial evidence
  • New hotel — Published framework

This municipality's own plan text

3 document version(s) with 329 citable provisions.

Withheld operations

Agriculture

  • · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.