Benicasim / Benicàssim, Castellón property and area FAQs

Benicàssim, in Valencian (known in Spanish as Benicasim), is a municipality and beach resort located in the province of Castellón, on the Costa del Azahar in Spain. The Desert de les Palmes mountain range further inland shelters the town from the north wind.

For Benicasim / Benicàssim, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 10 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-28. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Benicàssim/Benicasim, at a recorded elevation of approximately 24 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Mas dels Frares (8,715 residents in the cited settlement record), les Vil·les de Benicàssim (2,916 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanització El Quadro de Santiago (1,009 residents in the cited settlement record), les Palmes (717 residents in the cited settlement record), and Montornés (416 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.

Benicàssim is located 13 km north of the town of Castellón de la Plana, at the north end of the Valencian Community. Its economy is largely based on tourism; the town is well known for its beaches and its music festivals such as Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB) and the Rototom Sunsplash.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 36.1 square kilometres for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The official municipality context used for Benicasim / Benicàssim has INE code 12028. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

Benicasim / Benicàssim is an official municipality in Castellón province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

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

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 12028 and keeps the province label Castellón. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 40.0553, 0.0642. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

Benicasim / Benicàssim 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 latest imported INE population for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality is 20,119, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, recorded population changed by 12.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality is €19,526 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 43.7 years for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, for period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, the lowest population value is 17,727 residents in 2016.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality changed by 12.8%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, the highest population value is 20,119 residents in 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 imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 14.6% for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, in period 2023.

The displayed series for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality begins at 17,835 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality records €2,842 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 31.0% for Comunitat Valenciana in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana begins at 28.5% 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 Comunitat Valenciana, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 31.0% in 2026Q2.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed regional foreign-buyer share value for Comunitat Valenciana changed by 9.1%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the same displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana, the lowest regional house-price index value is 90.2 index points in 2024Q3.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Castellón province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,389 per m² in 2026Q2.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional foreign-buyer share observations for Comunitat Valenciana is 28.5%. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The current snapshot contains 421 recorded transactions for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality. The price sample may be smaller because not every transaction carries a publishable price measure.

The latest Registradores average is €121,615 in 2026Q2 for Castellón. It remains labelled as province evidence.

Dirección General del Catastro records 4,085 buildings for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 20,983 dwellings for Benicasim / Benicàssim 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 1,978 for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 5,094 energy certificates for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, 9.3% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The Catastro extract records 20,983 dwellings across 4,085 buildings for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, or approximately 5.14 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,129 recorded buildings for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, representing 52.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 180 recorded buildings for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, representing 4.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 329 recorded buildings for Benicasim / Benicàssim municipality, representing 8.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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