El Escorial, Madrid property and area FAQs

El Escorial is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, located 45 km (28 mi) northwest of the Spanish capital Madrid. It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca del Guadarrama.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 7 official population nuclei for El Escorial. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is El Escorial, at a recorded elevation of approximately 911 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Navalquejigo (5,916 residents in the cited settlement record), Soto Mora (1,167 residents in the cited settlement record), Pinosol (447 residents in the cited settlement record), El Alcor (321 residents in the cited settlement record), and Peralejo (185 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 of El Escorial is home to the park of La Granjilla de la Fresneda. The famous Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial also known as Monasterio de El Escorial or El Escorial, is located in the adjacent municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. On the outskirts of San Lorenzo de El Escorial is the national memorial Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen).

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 68.8 square kilometres for El Escorial municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

El Escorial is an official municipality in Madrid province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

El Escorial 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.

Dividing the INE population of 16,893 by the recorded municipal area of 68.8 km² gives approximately 245.5 residents per km² for El Escorial municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The audited municipality record contains 7 additional named-place records for El Escorial municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 28054 and keeps the province label Madrid. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 40.5816, -4.1251. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The latest imported INE population for El Escorial municipality is 16,893, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for El Escorial municipality, recorded population changed by 11.9%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for El Escorial municipality is €17,477 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.1 years for El Escorial municipality, for period 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 20.0% of residents aged 65 or over for El Escorial municipality, in period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for El Escorial municipality changed by 11.9%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

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

The displayed series for El Escorial municipality begins at 15,093 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for El Escorial municipality is 16,005 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for El Escorial municipality records €2,431 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €302,089 for El Escorial 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 124 m² for El Escorial municipality.

The published price measures use 289 price-informed sales from 312 total recorded transactions for El Escorial municipality.

Within the same displayed series for El Escorial municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 44 transactions in 2023Q3.

289 of 312 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for El Escorial municipality, equal to 92.6%.

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

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

Within the 12 displayed observations for El Escorial municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 93 transactions in 2025Q4.

From 2023Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed quarterly transaction count value for El Escorial municipality changed by 52.3%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Dirección General del Catastro records 3,774 buildings for El Escorial municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 9,161 dwellings for El Escorial 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 1,983 for El Escorial municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 2,435 energy certificates for El Escorial municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 68 recorded buildings for El Escorial municipality, representing 1.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for El Escorial municipality, 9.8% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 1990–2009 band contains 1,260 recorded buildings for El Escorial municipality, representing 33.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 9,161 dwellings across 3,774 buildings for El Escorial municipality, or approximately 2.43 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1950–1969 band contains 612 recorded buildings for El Escorial municipality, representing 16.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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