Lousada
City Statistics
Population
47 387
Area
96.08 km²
District
Porto
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
8.2 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.4 / 20
Housing & Cost
7.8 / 20
Governance
10.8 / 20
Environment
5.3 / 20
News Radar
6.6 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Working-Age Population (%)
69.5%
Data from 2024
P98
Top 4 Companies Revenue Share (%)
9.0%
Data from 2024
P98
Population Sustainability Index
3.95
Data from 2024
P98
Cafes per 10k Residents
1,9 per 10k
Data from 2026
P1
Environmental Governance Signal Rate
1
Data from 2026
P1
Days PM2.5 Above 25 ug/m3
127
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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- · Missing document — Agriculture
- · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
- · Missing document — Equipment
- · Missing document — Housing extension
- · Missing document — New housing
- · Missing document — Housing reconstruction
- · Document available — needs validation — Industry
- · Missing document — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Missing document — Tourist housing in an existing building
- · Missing document — 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 — Withheld
- Commerce — Needs confirmation
- Equipment — Withheld
- Housing extension — Withheld
- New housing — Withheld
- Housing reconstruction — Withheld
- Industry — Partial evidence
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Withheld
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Withheld
This municipality's own plan text
1 document version(s) with 47 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Agriculture, Equipment, Housing extension, New housing, Housing reconstruction, Rural tourism in an existing building, Tourist housing in an existing building, New hotel
- · 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.