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Vila Verde

Braga
20 credits+17.6%
Foral Index: 41.8

City Statistics

Population

47 888

Area

228.68 km²

District

Braga

NUTS II

Norte

Category Breakdown

Performance across 6 scoring categories

People & Families

7.5 / 20

Economy & Jobs

8.7 / 20

Housing & Cost

6.8 / 20

Governance

8.6 / 20

Environment

5.3 / 20

News Radar

4.8 / 20

Top Scoring Drivers

Key indicators affecting this city's score

Governance Body Coverage

Foral Intelligence
Governance

2

Data from 2026

P99

Top 4 Companies Revenue Share (%)

PORDATA
Economy & Jobs

9.0%

Data from 2024

P98

Commercial Service Gap

Foral Intelligence
Economy & Jobs

-50.16

Data from 2026

P97

Annual Fire Count

ICNF Wildfire Records (fogos.icnf.pt)
Environment

90

Data from 2026

P3

Average Fires per Year (10yr)

PORDATA
Environment

147

Data from 2024

P5

Firefighters per 1000 inhabitants

PORDATA
Environment

1,4 /1000

Data from 2024

P5

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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.

Review mode: Automatic (no operator review)Release: r25

Coverage of this analysis: between 7% and 14%

Still to confirm:
  • · Land applicability to be confirmed
  • · Document available — needs validation
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support

These open questions could change the conclusion.

See all (13)
  • · 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
  • · 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 — Needs confirmation
  • Equipment — Partial evidence
  • Housing extension — Needs confirmation
  • New housing — Needs confirmation
  • Housing reconstruction — Partial evidence
  • Industry — Partial evidence
  • Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
  • Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
  • New hotel — Needs confirmation

This municipality's own plan text

11 document version(s) with 580 citable provisions.

Withheld operations

Tourist housing in an existing building

  • · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.