Mértola
City Statistics
Population
6471
Area
1292.87 km²
District
Beja
NUTS II
Alentejo
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
6.6 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.0 / 20
Housing & Cost
8.6 / 20
Governance
8.0 / 20
Environment
8.0 / 20
News Radar
6.4 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Cafes per 10k Residents
57,2 per 10k
Data from 2026
P99
Average Annual Temperature
18.4°C
Data from 2025
P98
Revenue Per Capita
€3136
Data from 2024
P98
Gas Station Density (per km²)
0 per km²
Data from 2026
P0
Public Procurement — Ecological Contracts %
0.0%
Data from 2026
P1
Crude Birth Rate
3.5‰
Data from 2025
P1
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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.
Coverage of this analysis: between 14% and 21%
- · 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 — 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
The conclusion for Equipment is still subject to confirmation and could still change.
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1 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 — Needs confirmation
- Agriculture — Needs confirmation
- Commerce — Needs confirmation
- Equipment — Published framework
- Housing extension — Needs confirmation
- New housing — Partial evidence
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- 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 95 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.