Viana do Castelo
City Statistics
Population
88 725
Area
319.02 km²
District
Viana do Castelo
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
9.0 / 20
Economy & Jobs
9.2 / 20
Housing & Cost
6.0 / 20
Governance
9.4 / 20
Environment
5.2 / 20
News Radar
7.7 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Family Health Units (USF) Count
15 504
Data from 2026
P100
Decision Accountability Rate
100.0%
Data from 2026
P99
Direct Award Share
22.1%
Data from 2026
P97
Municipal Environment Spending p.c.
€11
Data from 2024
P1
Annual Fire Count
102
Data from 2026
P2
Commitment Deadline Rate
0.0%
Data from 2026
P5
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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
- · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
- · 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
See sources and details
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 — Partial evidence
- Housing extension — Published framework
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
- Industry — Partial evidence
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Withheld
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Partial evidence
This municipality's own plan text
1 document version(s) with 2 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.