Alaior, Illes Balears property and area FAQs

Alaior (Balearic Catalan: [ələˈjo], locally [(ə)ləˈo], [(ə)ˈlo]; previously in Spanish: Alayor) is a municipality located in the eastern part of the island of Menorca, in the Balearic Islands, Spain. The municipality seat is situated 12 kilometres from the island's capital, Mahón. Established following the Catalan-Aragonese conquest, Alaior is well known for its cheesemaking and shoe manufacturing.

Alaior’s current IGN settlement record contains 8 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Alaior, at a recorded elevation of approximately 109 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Cala en Porter (1,203 residents in the cited settlement record), Sant Jaume (237 residents in the cited settlement record), l'Argentina (220 residents in the cited settlement record), Son Vitamina (153 residents in the cited settlement record), and Torressolí Nou (151 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 110.0 square kilometres for Alaior municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 130 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 07002 and keeps the province label Illes Balears. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The official municipality context used for Alaior has INE code 07002. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

The audited municipality record contains 162 additional named-place records for Alaior municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

Alaior is an official municipality in Illes Balears province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 8 official population nuclei for Alaior municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

Alaior is in Illes Balears province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

The latest imported INE population for Alaior municipality is 9,910, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Alaior municipality, recorded population changed by 10.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Alaior municipality is €15,717 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 43.6 years for Alaior municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Alaior municipality is 9,294 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Alaior municipality, the highest population value is 9,910 residents in 2023.

INE records 19.4% of residents aged 65 or over for Alaior municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Alaior municipality, the lowest population value is 8,968 residents in 2016.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Alaior municipality changed by 10.0%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 15.0% for Alaior municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Alaior municipality records €2,406 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €306,165 for Alaior municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 127 m² for Alaior municipality.

The published price measures use 141 price-informed sales from 149 total recorded transactions for Alaior municipality.

Within the same displayed series for Balears, Illes, the lowest regional house-price index value is 90.7 index points in 2024Q3.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed registered sale-price benchmark observations for Illes Balears province is €3,839 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The displayed series for Illes Balears province begins at €3,504 per m² in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The page displays 12 quarterly MITMA observations for Alaior municipality, up to the latest published period in the chart.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Alaior municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 143 transactions in 2023Q4.

Within the same displayed series for Alaior municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 28 transactions in 2026Q1.

Dirección General del Catastro records 4,913 buildings for Alaior municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 6,773 dwellings for Alaior municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,954 for Alaior municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 2,327 energy certificates for Alaior municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 1,669 recorded buildings for Alaior municipality, representing 34.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Alaior municipality, 6.7% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 2010 onward band contains 132 recorded buildings for Alaior municipality, representing 2.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 6,773 dwellings across 4,913 buildings for Alaior municipality, or approximately 1.38 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1970–1989 band contains 1,639 recorded buildings for Alaior municipality, representing 33.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 0 listings for Alaior. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.