La Guardia de Jaén, Jaén property and area FAQs

La Guardia de Jaén or Guardia de Jaén, La (official name), and the old Mentesa Bastia at Iberic and Roman era, is a small city located in the province of Jaén (Spain) at western end of Sierra Mágina, on the Cerro de San Marcos, near the promontory of Cerro de San Cristóbal, from where it dominates the valley of the river Guadalbullón.

La Guardia de Jaén’s current IGN settlement record contains 1 official population nucleus. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is La Guardia de Jaén, at a recorded elevation of approximately 618 metres. Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

Located some 10 km (6.2 mi) from Jaén, being the closest town, better communication with the capital thanks to the three tracks that bind: Jontoya highway bridge, road N-323 and Bailén-Motril motorway (A44/E-902).

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 38.4 square kilometres for La Guardia de Jaén municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 23038 and keeps the province label Jaén. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

La Guardia de Jaén is an official municipality in Jaén province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

La Guardia de Jaén is in Jaén province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

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

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 37.7419, -3.6925. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

La Guardia de Jaén 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 La Guardia de Jaén municipality is 5,227, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, recorded population changed by 7.4%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for La Guardia de Jaén municipality is €14,694 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 39.4 years for La Guardia de Jaén 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.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for La Guardia de Jaén municipality changed by 7.4%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for La Guardia de Jaén municipality is 5,036 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

INE records 11.7% of residents aged 65 or over for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, the lowest population value is 4,868 residents in 2015.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 1.8% for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for La Guardia de Jaén municipality records €855 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 16.0% for Andalucía in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 14.3% 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 Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

46 of 58 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, equal to 79.3%.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional house-price index value is 110.9 index points in 2026Q2.

Within the 12 displayed observations for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 37 transactions in 2024Q2.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Jaén province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €843 per m² in 2026Q2.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed regional house-price index value for Andalucía changed by 22.4%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 14 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for La Guardia de Jaén municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 2,596 buildings for La Guardia de Jaén municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 2,429 dwellings for La Guardia de Jaén 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 1,984 for La Guardia de Jaén municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 571 energy certificates for La Guardia de Jaén municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 1,232 buildings, or 47.9% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 242 recorded buildings for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, representing 9.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 1,232 recorded buildings for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, representing 47.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, 22.9% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The Before 1950 band contains 282 recorded buildings for La Guardia de Jaén municipality, representing 11.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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