Paços de Ferreira
City Statistics
Population
56 340
Area
70.99 km²
District
Porto
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
8.0 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.9 / 20
Housing & Cost
6.0 / 20
Governance
9.3 / 20
Environment
5.4 / 20
News Radar
2.3 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Decision Accountability Rate
100.0%
Data from 2026
P100
Unanimous Decision Rate
100.0%
Data from 2026
P100
Commercial Service Gap
-52.27
Data from 2026
P98
Cafes per 10k Residents
1,8 per 10k
Data from 2026
P1
Family Liveability Index
21.70
Data from 2026
P1
Overall Emergency Observation Time
1196 min
Data from 2026
P3
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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 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
- · 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
- · Missing document — New hotel
See sources and details
No published framework has been confirmed for any of the 11 menu operations.
Next scheduled review: 2027-01-17. 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 — Partial evidence
- Equipment — Withheld
- Housing extension — Needs confirmation
- New housing — Partial evidence
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Needs confirmation
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Withheld
This municipality's own plan text
3 document version(s) with 148 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Agriculture, Equipment, Tourist housing in an existing building, New hotel
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