Mérida, Badajoz property and area FAQs

Mérida is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Province of Badajoz, and capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Located in the western-central part of the Iberian Peninsula at 217 metres above sea level, the city is crossed by the Guadiana and Albarregas rivers.

Mérida’s current IGN settlement record contains 9 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-28. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Mérida, at a recorded elevation of approximately 217 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Proserpina (423 residents in the cited settlement record), El Vivero (212 residents in the cited settlement record), Miralrío (99 residents in the cited settlement record), Hospital Psiquiátrico (62 residents in the cited settlement record), and Virgen de la Luz (43 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.

Its ecclesiastical metropolitan seat was taken away by the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela in 1119. Conquered by the Kingdom of León in 1230, shortly before the latter's final integration into the Crown of Castile, it was handed over to the Order of Santiago. On numerous occasions over the course of the middle ages and the Modern Period, it suffered from the effects of warfare due to its location close to the border with Portugal.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 865.6 square kilometres for Mérida municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The audited municipality record contains 202 additional named-place records for Mérida municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 217 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

Mérida 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 linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 38.9158, -6.3333. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 9 official population nuclei for Mérida municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

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

The official municipality context used for Mérida has INE code 06083. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

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

The stated official-data scope is Mérida 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 Mérida municipality is 59,561, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Mérida municipality, recorded population changed by 1.5%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Mérida municipality is €13,297 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.3 years for Mérida municipality, for period 2023.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 4.5% for Mérida municipality, in period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Mérida municipality is 59,012 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The displayed series for Mérida municipality begins at 58,702 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

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

Within the 9 displayed observations for Mérida municipality, the highest population value is 59,561 residents in 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Mérida municipality changed by 1.5%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

INE records 17.7% of residents aged 65 or over for Mérida municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Mérida municipality, the lowest population value is 58,702 residents in 2015.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Mérida municipality records €886 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €1,096 per square metre for Mérida municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Mérida municipality begins at €894 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 Mérida municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €1,096 per m² in 2026Q1.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Mérida municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 270 transactions in 2024Q4.

Within the same displayed series for Extremadura, the lowest regional foreign-buyer share value is 1.6% in 2025Q2.

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

817 of 847 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for Mérida municipality, equal to 96.5%.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 125 m² for Mérida municipality.

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

Within the same displayed series for Extremadura, the lowest regional house-price index value is 90.8 index points in 2024Q3.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Extremadura, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 2.9% in 2026Q2.

Dirección General del Catastro records 10,897 buildings for Mérida municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 29,229 dwellings for Mérida 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 1,978 for Mérida municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 4,366 energy certificates for Mérida municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Mérida municipality, 7.0% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 3,741 buildings, or 34.4% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 2,254 recorded buildings for Mérida municipality, representing 20.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,957 recorded buildings for Mérida municipality, representing 27.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 3,741 recorded buildings for Mérida municipality, representing 34.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 29,229 dwellings across 10,897 buildings for Mérida municipality, or approximately 2.68 dwellings per recorded building.

The 2010 onward band contains 459 recorded buildings for Mérida municipality, representing 4.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 1,479 recorded buildings for Mérida municipality, representing 13.6% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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