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Press release dated 16/09/2010

PERSONAL AND FAMILY INCOME STATISTICS OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY - 2006

The highest personal income by neighbourhoods of the provincial capitals of the Basque Country was in Abando and Miramon-Zorroaga.

The Miramon-Zorroaga neighbourhood (€72,280) had the highest average family income of the three Basque capitals

Abando (Bilbao), Miramon-Zorroaga (Donostia-San Sebastián) and Mendizorrotza (Vitoria-Gasteiz) were the neighbourhoods with the highest average personal income in the three Basque provincial capitals in 2006. On the other hand, Iturrigorri-Péñascal (Bilbao), Altza (Donostia-San Sebastián) and Abetxuko (Vitoria-Gasteiz) were the areas with the lowest average personal income in the three cities, for the population aged 18 and over, according to the Family and Personal Income statistics prepared by Eustat, in conjunction with the Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa Provincial Councils.

The population of Abando (Bilbao) had an average personal income of 31,537 euros a year, which stood at 69,670 euros in the case of family income. The people residing in the Mendizorrotza neighbourhood (Vitoria-Gasteiz) had an average personal income of 29,902 euros a year and an average family income of 69,777 euros. The average personal income of the population of Miramon-Zorroaga (Donostia-San Sebastián) was 27,238 euros and 72,280 euros in the case of the average family income.

The greatest equilibrium between neighbourhoods was in the provincial capital of Gipuzkoa, while Bilbao had the neighbourhoods with the highest and lowest average personal income of the three provincial capitals

The difference between neighbourhoods in the same provincial capital is particularly important in the case of the capital of Bizkaia. Thus, the average personal income in Iturrigorri-Peñascal in Bilbao was 9,210 euros, which was less than a third of that registered in Abando. Furthermore, the average family income in the former was 20,048 euros, significantly lower to the average personal income obtained in Abando.

In the other two Basque provincial capital, even though the difference was important, it was less notable. Abetxuko (Vitoria-Gasteiz) had an average personal income of 13,325 euros and an average family income of 28.073 euros. Both cases were under half the incomes of Mendizorrotza. In Altza, a neighbourhood in Donostia-San Sebastián, the average personal income was 13,633 euros and the average family income was 30,775 euros. The difference with Miramon-Zorroaga, the neighbourhood with the highest personal income of the capital of Guipuzkoa, was exactly half. Thus, the most significant gap was Bilbao.

In the capital of Bizkaia, the average income of 11 of the 38 neighbourhoods was higher than the average income of the municipality, estimated to be 18,196 euros. In Vitoria-Gasteiz, which has 28 neighbourhoods, 11 were over the average income of the municipality, which was 17,577 euros. The capital of Gipuzkoa was again the most balance, given that 10 out of a total of 17 neighbourhoods was over the average personal income of the municipality (20,056 euros).

Average personal income by neighbourhood of residence of the provincial capitals of the Basque Country (Euros)

As regards the percentage distribution of total personal income by the principal sources of income in the three provinces, work turned out to be of greater relative weight, followed by the transfers (benefits and pensions).

Thus, the Family and Personal Income Statistics reveal that, in the three Basque capitals, there was a lower impact of income from work and a greater one of income from capital in those neighbourhoods with the highest family and personal income. Thus, for example, the most important figures include the case of the Bilbao neighbourhoods of Abando and Indautxu, where the income from work barely accounted for 50% of the total income, while the income from capital had an impact of 27%.

On the other hand, income from capital had a smaller impact in those neighbourhoods with the lowest average personal income, where the predominant share came from income from work.

Average personal income by neighbourhood of residence of the provincial capitals of the Basque Country. (Euros)