Foz, Lugo property and area FAQs

Foz is a town and municipality in the A Mariña Central comarca in the Galician province of Lugo. It has been historically linked to the Ancient Province of Mondoñedo and also linked to the arrival of Briton immigrants during the 5th and 6th centuries, fleeing by sea from the British Isles (see Bishop Maeloc, Britonia and San Martiño de Mondoñedo). It borders the coastal municipalities of Burela and Barreiros, and the inland municipalities of Lourenzá, Mondoñedo, O Valadouro, Alfoz, and Cervo.

For Foz, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 27 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Foz, at a recorded elevation of approximately 34 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include A Ribela (785 residents in the cited settlement record), Fazouro (592 residents in the cited settlement record), Marzán (586 residents in the cited settlement record), Vilaxuane (400 residents in the cited settlement record), and Fondo de Nois (240 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.

Foz is a coastal town on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea at the mouth of the river Masma, which forms the Foz estuary, with an approximate area of 100 km².

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 100.3 square kilometres for Foz municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 27019 and keeps the province label Lugo. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Foz is shown within Lugo province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

Dividing the INE population of 10,163 by the recorded municipal area of 100.3 km² gives approximately 101.3 residents per km² for Foz municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 43.5689, -7.2550. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

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

The latest imported INE population for Foz municipality is 10,163, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Foz municipality, recorded population changed by 2.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Foz municipality is €14,946 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 48.2 years for Foz municipality, for period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.30 people per household for Foz municipality, for period 2023.

The displayed series for Foz municipality begins at 9,890 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

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

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 7.2% for Foz municipality, in period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Foz municipality changed by 2.8%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the same displayed series for Foz municipality, the lowest population value is 9,890 residents in 2015.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Foz municipality records €1,165 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 4.1% for Galicia in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Galicia begins at 2.2% 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 Galicia, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 4.1% in 2026Q2.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Foz municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 85 transactions in 2026Q2.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional foreign-buyer share observations for Galicia is 2.7%. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The imported Notariado snapshot states a fetch timestamp of 2026-08-03 21:39:29. It is a current snapshot, not a historical quarterly series.

Within the same displayed series for Lugo province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €975 per m² in 2024Q3.

The displayed Registradores series for Lugo province changed by 14.4% year on year at its latest point. This is a province trend, not a forecast for Foz.

The latest Registradores province average is €105,382 in 2026Q2 for Lugo. It remains labelled as province-level evidence.

Dirección General del Catastro records 4,690 buildings for Foz municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 10,083 dwellings for Foz 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 1,954 for Foz municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is Before 1950, with 1,647 buildings, or 35.2% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 940 recorded buildings for Foz municipality, representing 20.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 283 recorded buildings for Foz municipality, representing 6.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 1,647 recorded buildings for Foz municipality, representing 35.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 605 recorded buildings for Foz municipality, representing 12.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 10,083 dwellings across 4,690 buildings for Foz municipality, or approximately 2.15 dwellings per recorded building.

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