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Lanzarote Statistics and Demographics 2022

Would you like to know more about current property market conditions and trends in Lanzarote? We've put together some useful information for prospective buyers to help them in their property search. Most of this data comes from the Spanish Institute of National Statistics (INE), as well as Canarian based statistics agencies such as ISTAC (Instituto Canario de Estadísticas) and the Centro de Datos on Lanzarote.

If there's anything else you'd like to know and can't find the answers below, please feel free to contact us direct.


Population and Demographics

Lanzarote’s current official population at year end 2021 stands at 156,189 residents.

This figure represents the highest yet recorded and represents an increase of .24% versus 2020 figures. And of these, 31% are residents who were born elsewhere than in the Canary Islands (48,636), with non-Canarian residents also showing a small increase over figures from 2020, but a much larger rise since 2019, when there were 45,691 residents in Lanzarote who were not born there.

While this increase is statistically small it indicates that the population continues to grow year on year and has done since 2015, after several years of relatively stable figures following the financial crisis in 2008, when the economy and number of residents contracted

Despite the popularity of Lanzarote as a holiday destination its total population accounts for just 6.95% of the entire 2,246,370 population of the Canary Islands (ISTAC figures from 2021).


Population by Municipality (2021)

MunicipalityPopulation
Arrecife64,497
Haria5,365
San Bartolomé19,058
Teguise23,044
Tias20,801
Tinajo6,447
Yaiza16,977
Total156,189

Population by Nationality (2021)

NationalityPopulation
Spanish119,955
British6,725
Columbian4,369
Moroccan4,180
Italian4,097
German2,125
Chinese1,561
Romanian1,176
 

House Prices

How has the pandemic and Brexit impacted house prices on Lanzarote? How much does it currently cost to buy a property in Lanzarote?

Property prices vary even on a small island like Lanzarote, as some areas are more sought after than others.

Price € per m2 by municipality

202120202019
Arrecife1,3401,3941,453
Haría1,6131,6941,795
San Bartolome1,9631,8691,901
Teguise2,0091,9601,953
Tías2,4092,4622,521
Tinajo1,5871,4941,545
Yaiza2,2902,3672,381

These figures illustrate that the three municipalities with tourist resorts (Tias, Teguise and Yaiza) in them consistently have higher selling prices than the four other municipalities, indicating that this is where the demand for property is most consistent.


Tourist Visitor Numbers

The Coronavirus pandemic obviously caused a massive disruption in tourist visitor numbers during the course of 2020, reducing arrivals to 795,213 in total for the year.

2021 showed a significant recovery in tourist numbers, with the annual total standing at 1,188,783, an interannual increase of 49%. Revealing just how quickly holiday demand can rise when factors that have prevented people from travelling are removed.


Foreign Tourist Arrivals

20211,188,783
2020795,213
20193,065,575
20183,063,108
20173,146,117
20162,632,657
20152,193,273
20142,094,083
20131,870,159
20121,716,694
20111,708,490
20101,482,045
20091,367,499
20081,587,237
20071,618,215
20061,682,596
20051,688,223
20041,774,714
20031,853,067
20021,781,388
20011,791,741
20001,761,966
19991,720,842
19981,662,587
19971,464,570
19961,318,195

Foreign Tourist Arrivals in 2019 by Nationality

CountryArrivals
UK1,420,765
Germany397,972
Ireland311,688
Spain309,548
France157,727
Holland97,063
Nordic Countries95,851
Italy68,997
Belgium52,863
Other nationalities153,100

British tourist numbers remained fairly constant at around 46% of the total number of visitors, with numbers rising slightly between 2018 and 2019. German visitors also declined in 2019 by 5.52% in comparison with figures for 2018, but Irish holidaymakers went up by over 20,000 or 6.95% at the same time. With increases also noted in the Spanish holiday market of 36,404 more visitors in 2019 and amongst French tourists (8,227 more). Most of the other tourist markets saw declines in visitor numbers – the Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian and Italian markets all saw lower figures of arrivals than in 2018.