Póvoa de Varzim
City Statistics
Population
65 137
Area
82.21 km²
District
Porto
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.8 / 20
Economy & Jobs
8.8 / 20
Housing & Cost
6.5 / 20
Governance
10.5 / 20
Environment
6.4 / 20
News Radar
8.2 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Average Length of Hospital Stay
6
Data from 2026
P100
Drunk Driving (>= 1.2 g/l)
0.5‰
Data from 2025
P99
Consultation Wait (Priority)
42 days
Data from 2026
P99
Ambulatory Surgery Rate
71.7%
Data from 2026
P0
Firefighters per 1000 inhabitants
1,1 /1000
Data from 2024
P2
Psychology Consultations (Monthly)
1354
Data from 2026
P6
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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 28% and 35%
- · 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 — Housing reconstruction
- · Missing document — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Missing document — Tourist housing in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — New hotel
The conclusions for Equipment, New housing, Industry are still subject to confirmation and could still change.
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3 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 — Published framework
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Published framework
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Withheld
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Needs confirmation
This municipality's own plan text
2 document version(s) with 305 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.