Chiva, Valencia property and area FAQs

Chiva is a municipality in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is a Spanish-speaking town, in which Spanish has the legally recognised linguistic predominance compared to Valencian, co-official regional language of the Valencian Community. Part of the Hoya de Buñol region, it is located 31 kilometres inland following the A3 Highway from the capital of Valencia in direction towards Madrid.

Chiva’s current IGN settlement record contains 20 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-28. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Chiva, at a recorded elevation of approximately 273 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Urbanización Cumbres de Calicanto (2,550 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización El Bosque (1,130 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización Sierra de Perenchiza (948 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización Olimar (662 residents in the cited settlement record), and Urbanización La Loma del Castillo (648 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.

Chiva has the largest municipal park in Valencia; the mountainous Paraje Natural Municipal Sierra de Chiva, with a surface area of more than 5,500 ha.. This enclave is considered to have ecological, scenic and cultural significance, for which it justified its status as a protected area.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 178.7 square kilometres for Chiva municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

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

Yes. The structured municipality record includes an official website field. NLS treats that as identity context and not as property-market evidence.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 46111 and keeps the province label Valencia. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 20 official population nuclei for Chiva municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

Dividing the INE population of 17,014 by the recorded municipal area of 178.7 km² gives approximately 95.2 residents per km² for Chiva municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

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

The latest imported INE population for Chiva municipality is 17,014, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Chiva municipality, recorded population changed by 16.4%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Chiva municipality is €15,381 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 41.6 years for Chiva municipality, for period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Chiva municipality changed by 16.4%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Chiva municipality is 15,478 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

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

INE records 15.1% of residents aged 65 or over for Chiva municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Chiva municipality, the lowest population value is 14,615 residents in 2015.

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 Chiva municipality records €993 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.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 172 m² for Chiva municipality.

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

Within the same displayed series for Valencia province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,436 per m² in 2024Q3.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Comunitat Valenciana, the highest regional house-price index value is 111.7 index points in 2026Q2.

The displayed series for Chiva municipality begins at 62 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 Comunitat Valenciana is 100.2 index points. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Dirección General del Catastro records 8,988 buildings for Chiva municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 8,928 dwellings for Chiva 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 1,977 for Chiva municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 3,127 energy certificates for Chiva municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Catastro extract records 8,928 dwellings across 8,988 buildings for Chiva municipality, or approximately 0.99 dwellings per recorded building.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 4,799 buildings, or 53.5% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Chiva municipality, 11.7% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 2010 onward band contains 298 recorded buildings for Chiva municipality, representing 3.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 884 recorded buildings for Chiva municipality, representing 9.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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