Benidorm, Denia, and Elda Alcoy, cities that do not impede their growth
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Only four large cities in the Costa Blanca were saved last year from a demographic decline in the Valencia region, specifically Benidorm, Denia, Elda and Alcoy, according to final data from the Municipal census offered by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
In order of growth are Denia and Benidorm, which in 2006 won a 2.7 and a 2.1% population growth-compared to 2.4 and 0.2% from a year earlier, in addition to Elda and Alcoy that maintained their population they only grew by 0.3 and 0.2% - but they didn’t lose population as they did in 2005.
The population growth in the Valencia region during 2006, which was 1.6% (one third lower than in the previous year) mainly benefited the middle-sized cities-or population between 20,000 and 30,000.
Nine of the 12 municipalities that more populated during 2006, among the 58 which have more than 20,000 neighbors in the Comunitat are of average size. Among these dozen, only Gandia, which grew by 3.5%, Sant Vicent de Raspeig (3.4%) and Orihuela (3.2%) are big cities.
Onda, with a rate of 7.2%, was the town that grew most among the 58 most populated of the Valencian Community. Other cities who also enjoyed growth were Santa Pola, Mutxamel, Almassora and Calpe.
Source Levante EMV-Way