San Fulgencio had the highest percentage of foreign residents in Spain with expats making up 76.9% of the population.
The figures - along with others relating to expat numbers in the Vega Baja - are contained the annual study published this week by the bank, Caja España.
Other municipalities with over half the registered population being non-Spanish included Rojales (73.9%), Algorfa (68.7%), Benijófar (58.5%) and Torrevieja (53.5%).
Numbers of Brits
Algorfa held the highest percentage of Brits amongst the foreign residents with a whopping 83.3%.
It was followed by San Fulgencio (65.9%), Catral (61%), Los Montesinos (59.6%), Rojales (56.7%) and Benijófar (55.1%).
The British also made up more than half of the total population in Algorfa (2,361 out of 4,125) and in San Fulgencio (5,882 out of 11,594).
The municipalities in the Vega Baja with the most registered Brits were Orihuela (16,327), Torrevieja (12,550), Rojales (8,070), San Fulgencio (5,882) and Pilar de la Horadada (4,282).
In Bigastro we hardly figured. According to the data for 2008, there were 226 Brits which represented 22% of the foreign population. The total population in that year was 6,967 of which 971 (13.9%) were foreigners and 3.2% were Brits.
All the figures are taken from data relating to the 2008 municipal census (padrón).
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the percentage of Brits, if not the numbers, in Bigastro has gone down this year because of the virtual collapse of sales of houses to Brits and the number of births to nationals.
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Hi, any chance of you knowing a web site where I can download this 'Study', I'm intrigued as to see the raw stats. Thanks in advance.
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