Ponta Delgada
City Statistics
Population
68 809
Area
231.89 km²
District
Açores
NUTS II
Região Autónoma dos Açores
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.8 / 20
Economy & Jobs
10.1 / 20
Housing & Cost
6.8 / 20
Governance
9.8 / 20
Environment
4.9 / 20
News Radar
5.7 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Commitment Deadline Rate
66.7%
Data from 2026
P99
Population Sustainability Index
4.15
Data from 2024
P98
Average Fires per Year (10yr)
2
Data from 2024
P98
Decision Accountability Rate
14.5%
Data from 2026
P0
Vehicle Theft
4.7‰
Data from 2025
P2
Climate Comfort Days
14.8%
Data from 2025
P2
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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.
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
- · Missing document — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
- · Document available — needs validation — New housing
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
- · Missing document — Industry
- · Document available — needs validation — 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 — Withheld
- Equipment — Needs confirmation
- Housing extension — Needs confirmation
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Withheld
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Partial evidence
This municipality's own plan text
11 document version(s) with 289 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
Commerce, Industry, Tourist housing in an existing building
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