Vila Real de Santo António.

Town-hall debt vs the legal ceiling

OVER the legal limit: 2.82 times the statutory ceiling.

Position 1 of 307 municipalities (1 = most indebted vs its ceiling). National median: 0.24 times the limit.

Art. 52 of Law 73/2013 caps total debt at 1.5 times the average current revenue of the prior three years.

Air conditioning at home

34.0% of dwellings had air conditioning in 2021; the national share was 16.6%.

Higher prevalence than 87% of municipalities. A Censos 2021 snapshot (the figure will have grown since).

Follow the money

Services and people

Benchmarks computed over the full DGAL table (307 municipalities) and INE's Censos 2021 table; sources and dates stated on every block.