Rota, Cádiz property and area FAQs

Rota is a municipality and town in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. Its surface area is 84 km2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. It is located near the city of Jerez de la Frontera and is 36 kilometers away from the provincial capital, Cádiz. It belongs to two associations, the Association of Municipalities of Cádiz Bay along with the municipalities of Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, San Fernando, Chiclana de la Frontera and Puerto Real; and the Association of Municipalities of the Lower Guadalquivir that comprises municipalities of Northwest Coast of Andalusia.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 3 official population nuclei for Rota. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Rota, at a recorded elevation of approximately 11 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Costa Ballena (586 residents in the cited settlement record) and Base Naval (137 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.

Located along the Bay of Cádiz in the Atlantic Ocean, it is halfway between Portugal and Gibraltar, is predominantly a tourist town, a vacation/holiday destination for travelers from all over Europe. During the low season, its main business activity is the fishing industry. In the municipality is located the Naval Station Rota, which is the largest source of employment to the municipality. It also served as a transoceanic abort landing site for the Space Shuttle program.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 84.0 square kilometres for Rota municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

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

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

The official municipality context used for Rota has INE code 11030. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 11030 and keeps the province label Cádiz. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Rota 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.

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

The audited municipality record contains 49 additional named-place records for Rota municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 36.6229, -6.3600. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 3 official population nuclei for Rota municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The latest imported INE population for Rota municipality is 29,156, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Rota municipality, recorded population changed by 1.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Rota municipality is €12,985 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.9 years for Rota 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.

The displayed series for Rota municipality begins at 28,653 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Rota municipality is 28,760 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 5.5% for Rota municipality, in period 2023.

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

INE records 18.3% of residents aged 65 or over for Rota municipality, in period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Rota municipality, the lowest population value is 28,463 residents in 2017.

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

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Rota municipality records €2,300 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,796 per square metre for Rota municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Rota municipality begins at €2,104 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 Rota municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,847 per m² in 2025Q3.

The published price measures use 452 price-informed sales from 510 total recorded transactions for Rota municipality.

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.

Across the latest four displayed MITMA quarters, resale housing represents 99.2% of transactions for Rota municipality.

The page uses 12 published observations for Rota municipality, running from 2023Q3 to 2026Q2.

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

The imported Notariado snapshot states a fetch timestamp of 2026-08-03 21:39:29. It is a current snapshot, not a historical quarterly series.

Within the same displayed series for Rota municipality, the lowest appraised housing value value is €2,104 per m² in 2023Q2.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

Dirección General del Catastro records 7,061 buildings for Rota municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 26,833 dwellings for Rota 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 1,983 for Rota municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 4,557 energy certificates for Rota municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 2010 onward band contains 393 recorded buildings for Rota municipality, representing 5.6% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 437 recorded buildings for Rota municipality, representing 6.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,238 recorded buildings for Rota municipality, representing 31.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 963 recorded buildings for Rota municipality, representing 13.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 3,010 recorded buildings for Rota municipality, representing 42.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 3,010 buildings, or 42.7% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 26,833 dwellings across 7,061 buildings for Rota municipality, or approximately 3.80 dwellings per recorded building.

Among the imported certificates for Rota municipality, 7.4% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

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