Lorca, Murcia property and area FAQs

Lorca is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in south-eastern Spain, 58 kilometres (36 mi) southwest of the city of Murcia. Lorca has the second largest surface area of municipalities in Spain, 1,675.21 km2 (646.80 sq mi), after Cáceres. The city is home to Lorca Castle and to a Collegiate church dedicated to St. Patrick.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 65 official population nuclei for Lorca. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Lorca, at a recorded elevation of approximately 342 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include San Cristobal (15,507 residents in the cited settlement record), San José (13,728 residents in the cited settlement record), San Mateo (10,114 residents in the cited settlement record), Santiago (5,605 residents in the cited settlement record), and Los Ángeles-Apolonia (5,241 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.

In the Middle Ages Lorca was a frontier city between Christian and Muslim Spain. Earlier, during the Roman period, it was the ancient Ilura or Heliocroca.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 1,676.0 square kilometres for Lorca municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 65 official population nuclei for Lorca municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

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

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 30024 and keeps the province label Murcia. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

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

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 37.6833, -1.7000. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

Lorca 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 audited municipality record contains 687 additional named-place records for Lorca municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

Dividing the INE population of 96,773 by the recorded municipal area of 1,676.0 km² gives approximately 57.7 residents per km² for Lorca municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

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

The latest imported INE population for Lorca municipality is 96,773, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Lorca municipality, recorded population changed by 13.5%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Lorca municipality is €11,470 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 40.0 years for Lorca municipality, for period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 3.00 people per household for Lorca municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Lorca municipality is 92,865 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Lorca municipality, the lowest population value is 85,279 residents in 2015.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Lorca municipality changed by 13.5%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Lorca municipality, the highest population value is 96,773 residents in 2023.

INE records 15.4% of residents aged 65 or over for Lorca municipality, in 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.

The displayed series for Lorca municipality begins at 85,279 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 Lorca municipality records €1,019 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €1,202 per square metre for Lorca municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Lorca municipality begins at €873 per m² in 2023Q2. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Lorca municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €1,202 per m² in 2026Q1.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed appraised housing value observations for Lorca municipality is €1,001 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The page uses 12 published observations for Lorca municipality, running from 2023Q2 to 2026Q1.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Murcia province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,457 per m² in 2026Q2.

At the latest displayed point, the INE house-price index for Murcia, Región de changed by 14.4% year on year. The value describes the region, not an individual municipality or property.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional house-price index observations for Murcia, Región de is 100.3 index points. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed quarterly transaction count observations for Lorca municipality is 216 transactions. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Lorca municipality, the lowest appraised housing value value is €873 per m² in 2023Q2.

733 of 834 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for Lorca municipality, equal to 87.9%.

Dirección General del Catastro records 27,961 buildings for Lorca municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 42,225 dwellings for Lorca 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 1,966 for Lorca municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

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

The 1970–1989 band contains 7,670 recorded buildings for Lorca municipality, representing 27.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 42,225 dwellings across 27,961 buildings for Lorca municipality, or approximately 1.51 dwellings per recorded building.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 7,670 buildings, or 27.5% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Lorca municipality, 40.0% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 1950–1969 band contains 4,894 recorded buildings for Lorca municipality, representing 17.6% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 7,301 recorded buildings for Lorca municipality, representing 26.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 1,390 recorded buildings for Lorca municipality, representing 5.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 6,610 recorded buildings for Lorca municipality, representing 23.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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