El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife property and area FAQs

El Tanque is a town and a municipality in the northwestern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. It is located 6 km west of Icod de los Vinos and 53 km west of the island's capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

El Tanque’s current IGN settlement record contains 4 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is El Tanque, at a recorded elevation of approximately 603 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include San José de los Llanos (569 residents in the cited settlement record), Ruigómez (378 residents in the cited settlement record), and Erjos de El Tanque (177 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.

The elevation is 480 m.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 23.7 square kilometres for El Tanque municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Dividing the INE population of 2,784 by the recorded municipal area of 23.7 km² gives approximately 117.7 residents per km² for El Tanque municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

El Tanque 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 stated official-data scope is El Tanque municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.

The audited municipality record contains 0 additional named-place records for El Tanque municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The latest imported INE population for El Tanque municipality is 2,784, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for El Tanque municipality, recorded population changed by 5.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for El Tanque municipality is €10,932 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 45.0 years for El Tanque municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for El Tanque municipality is 2,744 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for El Tanque municipality changed by 5.0%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The displayed series for El Tanque municipality begins at 2,652 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 El Tanque municipality records €834 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 29.3% for Canarias in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Canarias begins at 27.3% 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 Canarias, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 30.0% in 2025Q2.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 155 m² for El Tanque municipality.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional foreign-buyer share observations for Canarias is 25.9%. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 5 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for El Tanque municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 1,476 buildings for El Tanque municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 1,339 dwellings for El Tanque 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 1,969 for El Tanque municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 155 energy certificates for El Tanque municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Catastro extract records 1,339 dwellings across 1,476 buildings for El Tanque municipality, or approximately 0.91 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1970–1989 band contains 358 recorded buildings for El Tanque municipality, representing 24.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 66 recorded buildings for El Tanque municipality, representing 4.6% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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