Alcover, Tarragona property and area FAQs

Alcover is a municipality in the Alt Camp comarca, in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It lies at the meeting point of the Camp de Tarragona plain and the foothills of the Prades Mountains, near the valley of the Glorieta.

Alcover’s current IGN settlement record contains 11 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Alcover, at a recorded elevation of approximately 238 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Serradalt (381 residents in the cited settlement record), Residencial Remei (221 residents in the cited settlement record), les Masies Catalanes (184 residents in the cited settlement record), la Cabana (101 residents in the cited settlement record), and Mas de Gassol (92 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 territory has archaeological evidence of occupation from prehistory through the Iberian, Roman and late antique periods. Medieval Alcover developed within the lordship of the Archdiocese of Tarragona, and by the late Middle Ages had become a fortified market town. The municipality preserves a substantial historic centre, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and an important palaeontological collection based on the Middle Triassic Alcover-Mont-ral fossil site.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 46.0 square kilometres for Alcover municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The official municipality context used for Alcover has INE code 43005. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

Alcover is treated as an official municipality. The page is joined to institutional datasets by its five-digit INE identity, not by a loose name match.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 11 official population nuclei for Alcover municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The stated official-data scope is Alcover municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.

Dividing the INE population of 5,303 by the recorded municipal area of 46.0 km² gives approximately 115.3 residents per km² for Alcover municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

Alcover is an official municipality in Tarragona province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

The latest imported INE population for Alcover municipality is 5,303, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Alcover municipality, recorded population changed by 4.7%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Alcover municipality is €15,083 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.4 years for Alcover municipality, for period 2023.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 11.4% for Alcover municipality, in period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.60 people per household for Alcover municipality, for period 2023.

INE records 18.1% of residents aged 65 or over for Alcover municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Alcover municipality, the lowest population value is 5,022 residents in 2018.

The page uses 9 published observations for Alcover municipality, running from 2015 to 2023.

The population figure uses INE period 2023. The page shows the period beside the value so it is not mistaken for a live counter.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Alcover municipality records €1,117 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 17.6% for Cataluña in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Cataluña begins at 16.8% in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Cataluña, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 17.6% in 2026Q2.

The displayed Registradores series for Tarragona changed by 12.0% year on year at its latest point. This is a historical aggregate trend, not a forecast for Alcover.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €152,176 for Alcover municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

The current snapshot contains 56 recorded transactions for Alcover municipality. The price sample may be smaller because not every transaction carries a publishable price measure.

From 2023Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed quarterly transaction count value for Alcover municipality changed by -38.2%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Alcover municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 34 transactions in 2023Q3.

The page uses 8 published observations for Cataluña, running from 2024Q3 to 2026Q2.

Dirección General del Catastro records 2,538 buildings for Alcover municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 2,314 dwellings for Alcover 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 1,968 for Alcover municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 697 buildings, or 27.5% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 697 recorded buildings for Alcover municipality, representing 27.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 106 recorded buildings for Alcover municipality, representing 4.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 2,314 dwellings across 2,538 buildings for Alcover municipality, or approximately 0.91 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1950–1969 band contains 466 recorded buildings for Alcover municipality, representing 18.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 657 recorded buildings for Alcover municipality, representing 25.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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