Tegueste, Santa Cruz de Tenerife property and area FAQs

Tegueste is a town and a municipality of the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, on the Canary Islands, Spain. It is surrounded by the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The town Tegueste is located 4 km northwest of San Cristóbal de La Laguna and 11 km northwest of the island capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tegueste became independent from San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the 17th century.

For Tegueste, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 32 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Tegueste, at a recorded elevation of approximately 398 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include El Baldío (1,160 residents in the cited settlement record), Portezuelo Alto (1,093 residents in the cited settlement record), Pedro Álvarez (716 residents in the cited settlement record), El Gomero (711 residents in the cited settlement record), and El Socorro (536 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.

Currently, it is thought that the place name Tegueste is related to Thagaste, a city in Algeria where Saint Augustine of Hippo was born and a center of Berber culture.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 26.4 square kilometres for Tegueste municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Tegueste is in Santa Cruz de Tenerife province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

Tegueste 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.

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

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 38046 and keeps the province label Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 32 official population nuclei for Tegueste municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The audited municipality record contains 1 additional named-place records for Tegueste municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The latest imported INE population for Tegueste municipality is 11,361, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Tegueste municipality, recorded population changed by 2.3%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Tegueste municipality is €15,490 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.6 years for Tegueste municipality, for period 2023.

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

Within the 9 displayed observations for Tegueste municipality, the highest population value is 11,361 residents in 2023.

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

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Tegueste municipality changed by 2.3%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 3.2% for Tegueste municipality, in period 2023.

The displayed series for Tegueste municipality begins at 11,103 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 Tegueste municipality records €1,287 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.

Within the same displayed series for Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €2,399 per m² in 2024Q3.

INE reports a house-price index of 110.4 for Canarias in 2026Q2. An index is not a euro price per square metre.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €2,807 per m² in 2026Q2.

Within the same displayed series for Tegueste municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 9 transactions in 2024Q1.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Tegueste municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 38 transactions in 2023Q4.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €237,143 for Tegueste municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

Dirección General del Catastro records 3,553 buildings for Tegueste municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 4,640 dwellings for Tegueste 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 1,974 for Tegueste municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 751 energy certificates for Tegueste municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 328 recorded buildings for Tegueste municipality, representing 9.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 1,134 buildings, or 32.3% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 99 recorded buildings for Tegueste municipality, representing 2.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 4,640 dwellings across 3,553 buildings for Tegueste municipality, or approximately 1.31 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1950–1969 band contains 940 recorded buildings for Tegueste municipality, representing 26.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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