Living in Trujillo

In Trujillo, rent averages €3.90 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 5.2% (2026).

Trujillo is a city in Spain, with a population of 8,611 at the start of 2025. The nearest airport was BJZ, 103.3 km away, with 2 listed destinations in June 2026. The unemployment rate was 5.23% in June 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2419 sources

Population8,611people1 Jan 2025Official source · INE — Padrón municipal (t=2856, c3=ine5)

Median gross salary (region)1,742EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)

Average net rent3.9EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.10 — 24% belowOfficial source · cdn.mivau.gob.es

Unemployment rate5.23%country median 4.4% — 19% aboveIndependent source · SEPE — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026

Recorded crime3,460incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Regional figureOfficial source · La criminalidad convencional se mantiene estable en Cantabria en 2025

PM2.5, annual mean6µg/m³country median 8.7 — 31% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 76% of Spanish cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 66% of Spanish cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 91% of Spanish cities that publish it.

Which Spain-wide rules apply when you move to Trujillo?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Trujillo?

Average net cold rent is 3.9 EUR/m² per month (2022), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

Average net rent (nettokalt): 3.9 EUR/m²/month · cdn.mivau.gob.es¹

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€20

Mobile plan, 10 GB€12

Net rent across major citiesTrujillo highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Madrid€14.00

Barcelona€13.70

Bilbao€11.50

Palma€9.80

Murcia€5.80

Trujillo€3.90

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Málaga€9.60

Seville€9.20

Valencia€8.20

Zaragoza€7.70

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria€7.30

Alicante€7.10

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	20 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	DIGI 300 Mbps fibre³Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	12 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	DIGI 100GB mobile plan²Official · national market
Dwellings	6,429 dwellings	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official
G05 Main Residential Dwellings	3,642 dwellings	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official
G05 Secondary Seasonal Vacant Dwellings	2,784 dwellings	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	3.9 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.10	31 Dec 2022	cdn.mivau.gob.es¹Official

Is Trujillo a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–67%

Skilled employee61%strong on work, weak on education · range 52–70%

Student61%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 50–72%

Family59%strong on family, weak on education · range 48–70%

Retirement65%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 54–76%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 234 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 3.9 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2022

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Trujillo?

The unemployment rate is about 5.2 % (June 2026).

Unemployment rate: 5.23 % · SEPE — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹⁹

Unemployment across cities in SpainUnemployment in Trujillo is 5.2%. Of 1,361 cities with data, 844 have unemployment of 0 to under 5%.

844

437

0–55–1010–1515–2020–2525–30

Trujillo 5.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Gigabit broadband availability	77.68 %	30 Jun 2025	SETELECO Cobertura Banda Ancha España 2021-2025¹⁷Official
People in employment	3,285 people	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official
Median gross salary (regional)	1,742 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)⁸Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	5.23 %country median 4.4%	30 Jun 2026	SEPE — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹⁹Independent

What does a salary buy in Trujillo?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€1,159of €1,425 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.	€1,425
Rent, 60 m²€3.90/m² · official · cdn.mivau.gob.es · 2022-12-31	− €234
Internet€20 · official · DIGI 300 Mbps fibre · 2026-09-30	− €20
Mobile plan€12 · official · DIGI 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30	− €12
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€1,159

Take-home pay for other salaries and households

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Trujillo. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal — Public employment service

Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE)

Job SearchUnemployment ClaimTraining

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Trujillo. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesTrujillo highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Pamplona7,766

Alicante7,419

Murcia5,289

Córdoba5,095

Melilla5,090

Vitoria-Gasteiz4,916

Cartagena4,578

Castellón de la Plana4,251

Elche4,043

Lorca3,706

Logroño3,690

Burgos3,628

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	3,460 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	La criminalidad convencional se mantiene estable en Cantabria en 2025¹³Official · regional context

Mobility and administration

Gigabit broadband availability was 77.7% in June 2025.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	2 count	13 Jun 2026	OpenFlights — routes.dat¹⁵Official
Nearest airport	BJZ	13 Jun 2026	OurAirports — airports.csv¹⁶Official
Distance to nearest airport	103.3 km	13 Jun 2026	OurAirports — airports.csv¹⁶Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Trujillo. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas — public language education network — State Language Course

Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports / autonomous education authorities

For adult language learners, residents.

In Person, Online, Hybridvaries

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Trujillo.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Trujillo?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 µg/m³ (2017) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency⁴

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.56WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in SpainAnnual PM2.5 in Trujillo is 6.0 µg/m³. Of 269 cities with data, 57 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

3–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–1212–1313–1414–1516–1719–20

Trujillo 6.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	6 µg/m³country median 8.7	31 Dec 2017	European Environment Agency⁴Official
Climate Monthly Extreme High C	Jan 19.91 · Feb 21.87 · Mar 27.68 · Apr 29.7 · May 36.55 · Jun 41.66 · Jul 43.69 · Aug 43.83 · Sep 42.46 · Oct 33.89 · Nov 25.04 · Dec 19.13 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Climate Monthly Extreme Low C	Jan -5.27 · Feb -5.63 · Mar -5.35 · Apr -1.61 · May 2.1 · Jun 6.76 · Jul 9.96 · Aug 11.58 · Sep 7.65 · Oct 0.47 · Nov -4.73 · Dec -5.82 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 5.77 · Feb 6.91 · Mar 9.87 · Apr 13.03 · May 17.46 · Jun 23.2 · Jul 26.87 · Aug 26.77 · Sep 22.25 · Oct 16.22 · Nov 9.61 · Dec 6.41 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official

Annual PM2.5 over time5 published observations, 2013–2017

5.9

6.3

6.7

7.1

6.0201320152017

Annual PM2.5 fell 14.3% between 2013 and 2017, from 7.0 to 6.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Trujillo?

The published population was 8,611 people in January 2025. Source: INE — Padrón municipal (t=2856, c3=ine5)⁶

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95.8%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	649.5 km²	20 Oct 2025	www.ign.es¹⁸Official
Foreign-resident share	4.18 %	31 Dec 2025	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE España)⁷Official
Foreign residents	362 people	31 Dec 2025	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE España)⁷Official
Population Female	4,413 people	31 Dec 2023	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)⁹Official
Population Male	4,192 people	31 Dec 2023	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)⁹Official
Population	8,611 people	1 Jan 2025	INE — Padrón municipal (t=2856, c3=ine5)⁶Official

International community in Trujillo

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Population resident in Spain; both sexes; official INE Census 2021 municipal table · 2021 Census

Published group	People	Share
TOTAL	8,859	100.0%
Spain	8,500	95.9%
South America	117	1.3%
European Union (without Spain)	103	1.2%
Africa	50	0.6%
Central America and Caribbean	31	0.3%
Asia	22	0.2%
Rent of Europe	21	0.2%
North America	13	0.1%
Oceania	2	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Citizenship

Population resident in Spain; both sexes; official INE Census 2021 municipal table · 2021 Census

Published group	People	Share
TOTAL	8,859	100.0%
Spanish	8,601	97.1%
European Union (without Spain)	82	0.9%
South America	77	0.9%
Africa	37	0.4%
Asia	23	0.3%
Central America and Caribbean	14	0.2%
North America	14	0.2%
Rent of Europe	10	0.1%
Oceania	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹¹

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Households	3,645 households	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official
Labour Supply Count	4,272 people	31 Dec 2021	Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain¹²Official

Alternatives for people set on Trujillo

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Vila-real as a Trujillo alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 497 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 53,623 Vila-real vs 8,611 Trujillo+523%
Foreign residents: 16.0% Vila-real vs 4.2% Trujillo+283%
Nearest airport: 34.1 km Vila-real vs 103.3 km Trujillo−67%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,712 (2024) Vila-real vs 3,460 (2025) Trujillono percentage
Median gross pay, region: €1,888 Vila-real vs €1,742 Trujillo+8%
Rent: €4.00/m² Vila-real vs €3.90/m² Trujillosame level
Unemployment: 5.5% Vila-real vs 5.2% Trujillo+5%

Full comparison More about Vila-real

Alternative cities in Spain

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Roquetes8,607 residents Artà8,629 residents Santiponce8,634 residents Polinyà8,581 residents Colindres8,570 residents Reinosa8,570 residents

How does Trujillo compare?

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Trujillo under the national coverage rules.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 6 to 16. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Regional reception programmes (aulas de enlace Madrid / aules d acollida Catalonia etc). How to enrol a child (educacionfpydeportes.gob.es).

A country-wide rule for Spain; Trujillo's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Is Trujillo part of Cáceres?

Trujillo is in the published commuting zone of Cáceres; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Cáceres city profile

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source⁵

Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Trujillo?

The published population was 8,611 people in January 2025. Source: INE — Padrón municipal (t=2856, c3=ine5).

How much does it cost to rent in Trujillo?

Average net cold rent is 3.9 EUR/m² per month (2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 273 EUR a month before utilities. Source: cdn.mivau.gob.es.

Is the air quality good in Trujillo?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 µg/m³ (2017) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

What is the unemployment rate in Trujillo?

The unemployment rate is about 5.2 % (June 2026). Source: SEPE — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026.

What is the typical salary around Trujillo?

The median gross salary is 1,742 EUR/month. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).

Is Trujillo a good place to live?

Trujillo may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Is Trujillo part of Cáceres?

Trujillo is in the published commuting zone of Cáceres; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

How many people born in Africa live in Trujillo?

The official country of birth distribution records 50 people (0.6%) in the source-defined population for 2021 Census. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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