La Nucia, Alicante property and area FAQs

La Nucia is a municipality in the comarca of Marina Baixa, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. It borders the municipalities of Altea, Callosa d'en Sarrià, Benidorm, Polop and L'Alfàs del Pi.

For La Nucia, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 5 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is la Nucia, at a recorded elevation of approximately 250 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Coloma (6,118 residents in the cited settlement record), Barranc Fondo (5,144 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanització Bell Horitzó (971 residents in the cited settlement record), and Urbanització El Tossal (543 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.

La Nucia is located in a fruit valley between Benidorm and Callosa d'en Sarrià, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the coast of Altea. The urban center is on a promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, 51 kilometres (32 mi) north of Alicante and 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Benidorm.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 21.4 square kilometres for La Nucia municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

La Nucia 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.

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

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

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 38.6172, -0.1231. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 03094 and keeps the province label Alicante. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 226 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

The latest imported INE population for La Nucia municipality is 18,662, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for La Nucia municipality, recorded population changed by 4.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for La Nucia municipality is €12,585 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.0 years for La Nucia municipality, for period 2023.

Within the 9 displayed observations for La Nucia municipality, the highest population value is 18,823 residents in 2022.

INE records 16.6% of residents aged 65 or over for La Nucia municipality, in period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.80 people per household for La Nucia municipality, for period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for La Nucia municipality, the lowest population value is 16,791 residents in 2016.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for La Nucia municipality changed by 4.8%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

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

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for La Nucia municipality records €1,878 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 31.0% for Comunitat Valenciana in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana begins at 28.5% 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 Comunitat Valenciana, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 31.0% in 2026Q2.

INE reports a house-price index of 111.7 for Comunitat Valenciana in 2026Q2. An index is not a euro price per square metre.

At the latest displayed point, the INE house-price index for Comunitat Valenciana changed by 13.0% year on year. The value describes the region, not an individual municipality or property.

From 2023Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed quarterly transaction count value for La Nucia municipality changed by 43.5%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 99 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for La Nucia municipality.

Within the same displayed series for Alicante province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,813 per m² in 2024Q3.

The published price measures use 387 price-informed sales from 416 total recorded transactions for La Nucia municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 5,096 buildings for La Nucia municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 8,964 dwellings for La Nucia 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 1,979 for La Nucia municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 3,021 energy certificates for La Nucia municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Catastro extract records 8,964 dwellings across 5,096 buildings for La Nucia municipality, or approximately 1.76 dwellings per recorded building.

The 2010 onward band contains 136 recorded buildings for La Nucia municipality, representing 2.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for La Nucia municipality, 9.3% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 1950–1969 band contains 273 recorded buildings for La Nucia municipality, representing 5.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 2,678 buildings, or 52.8% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

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