Loulé
City Statistics
Population
76 451
Area
763.67 km²
District
Faro
NUTS II
Algarve
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.6 / 20
Economy & Jobs
9.1 / 20
Housing & Cost
5.8 / 20
Governance
9.8 / 20
Environment
5.3 / 20
News Radar
6.0 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Water Distributed per Capita (m³)
157 m³
Data from 2023
P99
Fire Risk Index
1.00
Data from 2026
P99
Accommodation Capacity (Beds)
18 549
Data from 2026
P99
Consultation Coverage
No
Data from 2026
P0
Selective Urban Waste per Capita (kg)
412 kg/day
Data from 2024
P0
Median Housing Price
€3993/m²
Data from 2025
P1
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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
- · Document available — needs validation — 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
- · Missing document — 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 — Needs confirmation
- Equipment — Needs confirmation
- Housing extension — Partial evidence
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
- Industry — Needs confirmation
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Withheld
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Needs confirmation
This municipality's own plan text
1 document version(s) with 5 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Rural tourism in an existing building, 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.