Polopos, Granada property and area FAQs

Polopos is a village in the municipality Polopos-La Mamola in the province of Granada, Spain. Polopos used to be the main village with 1200 villagers living there in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the families moved away in the second half of the 20th century to find work in the cities or to live on the coast. As of 2019 it was home to 53 people.

Polopos’ current IGN settlement record contains 6 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-17. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is La Mamola, at a recorded elevation of approximately 5 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include La Guapa (239 residents in the cited settlement record), Haza del Trigo (113 residents in the cited settlement record), Castillo de Baños Arriba (111 residents in the cited settlement record), Polopos (110 residents in the cited settlement record), and Castillo de Baños Abajo (90 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.

Polopos got a boost in popularity due to Dutch reality TV program Het Spaanse Dorp Polopos (the Spanish village Polopos) in 2019. Five Dutch couples were followed to see who was most successful in restoring a dilapidated house allotted to each of them, setting up a business in the village, learning Spanish and integrating with the local population. Spanish media regularly visit the village to see if the experiment of the TV show is successful in fighting the general problem of 'España vaciada', or empty Spain, where villages with an ever decreasing and ageing population are deteriorating more and more and are sometimes abandoned all together.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 26.8 square kilometres for Polopos municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 36.7956, -3.2972. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 18162 and keeps the province label Granada. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Polopos 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 official municipality context used for Polopos has INE code 18162. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

The latest imported INE population for Polopos municipality is 1,671, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Polopos municipality, recorded population changed by 2.1%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Polopos municipality is €9,921 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.2 years for Polopos municipality, for period 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Polopos municipality changed by 2.1%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

INE records 17.6% of residents aged 65 or over for Polopos municipality, in period 2023.

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

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Polopos municipality records €925 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.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional house-price index observations for Andalucía is 100.2 index points. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 14 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for Polopos municipality.

From 2023Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed quarterly transaction count value for Polopos municipality changed by -56.3%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Dirección General del Catastro records 986 buildings for Polopos municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 1,513 dwellings for Polopos 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 1,965 for Polopos municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 309 energy certificates for Polopos municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 1950–1969 band contains 231 recorded buildings for Polopos municipality, representing 23.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is Before 1950, with 322 buildings, or 32.7% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 215 recorded buildings for Polopos municipality, representing 21.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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