Vila do Bispo
City Statistics
Population
5258
Area
179.06 km²
District
Faro
NUTS II
Algarve
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
7.2 / 20
Economy & Jobs
10.0 / 20
Housing & Cost
5.0 / 20
Governance
7.8 / 20
Environment
7.5 / 20
News Radar
6.6 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Restaurants per 10k Residents
167 per 10k
Data from 2026
P100
Cafes per 10k Residents
59 per 10k
Data from 2026
P100
Water Distributed per Capita (m³)
173 m³
Data from 2023
P100
Vehicle Theft
10.0‰
Data from 2025
P0
Crimes Against Property
32.9‰
Data from 2025
P1
Annual purchasing capacity — m² per 14 average salaries
5 m²
Data from 2026
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 21% and 28%
- · 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 — 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
The conclusions for Housing extension, New hotel are still subject to confirmation and could still change.
See sources and details
2 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 — Partial evidence
- Agriculture — Partial evidence
- Commerce — Needs confirmation
- Equipment — Needs confirmation
- Housing extension — Published framework
- New housing — Needs confirmation
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Needs confirmation
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
- New hotel — Published framework
This municipality's own plan text
1 document version(s) with 10 citable provisions.
Withheld operations
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.