Arona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife property and area FAQs

Arona is a municipality in the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spanish region and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. The municipality covers an area of 81.79 square kilometres comprising 4% of the island's area. The town of Arona is 59 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital. It is the third largest city in Tenerife, after, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Arona has a pleasant climate with temperatures ranging from 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. Notable places include the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Costa del Silencio and Las Galletas. Arona also features Punta Salemas, the southernmost point of the island of Tenerife. The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 41 official population nuclei for Arona. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Arona, at a recorded elevation of approximately 629 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Los Cristianos (13,721 residents in the cited settlement record), El Fraile (10,379 residents in the cited settlement record), Costa del Silencio (7,356 residents in the cited settlement record), Cabo Blanco (6,507 residents in the cited settlement record), and Valle de San Lorenzo (6,455 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 81.8 square kilometres for Arona municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 630 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

Arona 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.

Arona is in Santa Cruz de Tenerife province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

The audited municipality record contains 18 additional named-place records for Arona municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The stated official-data scope is Arona 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 86,661 by the recorded municipal area of 81.8 km² gives approximately 1,059.6 residents per km² for Arona municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 38006 and keeps the province label Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 41 official population nuclei for Arona municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The official municipality context used for Arona has INE code 38006. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

Arona is an official municipality in Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

The latest imported INE population for Arona municipality is 86,661, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Arona municipality, recorded population changed by 10.5%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Arona municipality is €11,184 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.0 years for Arona municipality, for period 2023.

The page uses 9 published observations for Arona 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.

INE records 14.9% of residents aged 65 or over for Arona municipality, in period 2023.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Arona municipality, the highest population value is 86,661 residents in 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Arona municipality, the lowest population value is 76,579 residents in 2016.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.50 people per household for Arona municipality, for period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Arona municipality changed by 10.5%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 39.2% for Arona municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Arona municipality records €3,138 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,896 per square metre for Arona municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Arona municipality begins at €1,973 per m² in 2023Q2. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Arona municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,896 per m² in 2026Q1.

Across the latest four displayed MITMA quarters, resale housing represents 95.1% of transactions for Arona municipality.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed quarterly transaction count observations for Arona municipality is 440 transactions. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The displayed Registradores series for Santa Cruz de Tenerife changed by 5.0% year on year at its latest point. This is a historical aggregate trend, not a forecast for Arona.

The displayed series for Arona municipality begins at 422 transactions in 2023Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional house-price index observations for Canarias is 100.0 index points. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Arona municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 621 transactions in 2024Q2.

Within the same displayed series for Canarias, the lowest regional house-price index value is 90.6 index points in 2024Q3.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 458 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for Arona municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 9,685 buildings for Arona municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 51,071 dwellings for Arona 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 1,985 for Arona municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 12,215 energy certificates for Arona municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 2010 onward band contains 305 recorded buildings for Arona municipality, representing 3.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 51,071 dwellings across 9,685 buildings for Arona municipality, or approximately 5.27 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1990–2009 band contains 4,091 recorded buildings for Arona municipality, representing 42.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 4,031 recorded buildings for Arona municipality, representing 42.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Arona municipality, 5.5% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The Before 1950 band contains 328 recorded buildings for Arona municipality, representing 3.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 4,091 buildings, or 42.7% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 818 recorded buildings for Arona municipality, representing 8.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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