Increasing Vicar

THE population census of Vícar shows that in the first half of the year, the population increased by 462 people.

Mayor of Vícar, Antonio Bonilla, said: “The figures confirm what we had already predicted, and that is that the upward trend in our population is continuing.

“This means that we are ever closer to reaching the figure of 30,000 inhabitants and reaffirms our objective of working towards the horizon of a large city of 50,000 inhabitants.”

On June 30, 2023, of the 28,726 registered persons, 15,552 were male and 13,174 were female.

The average age of the population of Vícar re ­ mains at around 30 years, one of the lowest in Andalucia, with almost half of the population under 40 years of age.

A total of 6,956 of the residents of Vícar are under 18, of whom 2,779 are male, and another

4,182 are over 65, of whom 1,347 are also male.

In addition, just over 66 per cent of the legal population is of Spanish nationality, while the rest is distributed among 68 other nationalities.