Living in Manteigas

In Manteigas, average gross earnings are €1,166 a month (2024), rents in new contracts average €3.88 per m² a month (2026) and unemployment is 1.6% (2026).

The unemployment rate was 1.59% in June 2026. In 2021, the city covered 122 km² and had a population density of 28.1 people per km². The foreign population count was 78 in 2023.

Last checked 2026-10-0713 sources

Population2,248people19 Apr 2021Official source · Censos 2021 — Lugares por Freguesia (C21_LUGF_PT)

Average gross salary1,166EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)

Average net rent3.88EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.20 — 37% belowOfficial source · www.ine.pt

Unemployment rate1.59%country median 2.3% — 32% belowIndependent source · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026

Recorded crime2,300incidents per 100kcountry median 2,730 — 16% belowOfficial source · INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022

Cheaper rent than 89% of Portuguese cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 85% of Portuguese cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 76% of Portuguese cities that publish it.

Which Portugal-wide rules apply when you move to Manteigas?

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Manteigas?

Average net cold rent is 3.88 EUR/m² per month (2026-Q1), 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): 3.88 EUR/m²/month · www.ine.pt¹¹

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€30

Mobile plan, 10 GB€15

Net rent across major citiesManteigas highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Lisbon€17.42

Cascais€16.50

Oeiras€15.42

Almada€13.43

Braga€8.57

Manteigas€3.88

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Amadora€13.00

Matosinhos€11.98

Loures€11.73

Sintra€11.24

Vila Nova de Gaia€10.61

Porto€10.15

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	29.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	MEO fixed fibre⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	15 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Vodafone Portugal mobile plan¹⁰Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	3.88 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.20	26 Aug 2026	www.ine.pt¹¹Official

Is Manteigas a good place to live?

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Remote worker62%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 53–71%

Skilled employee68%strong on work, weak on education · range 60–76%

Student63%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 54–72%

Family70%strong on family, weak on education · range 62–78%

Retirement63%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 53–73%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 233 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 3.88 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: 2026-Q1

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Manteigas?

The unemployment rate is about 1.6 % (June 2026).

Unemployment rate: 1.59 % · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹³

Unemployment across cities in PortugalUnemployment in Manteigas is 1.6%. Of 279 cities with data, 131 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

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Manteigas 1.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,166 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)²Official
Unemployment rate	1.59 %country median 2.3%	30 Jun 2026	IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹³Independent

What does a salary buy in Manteigas?

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

Left over each month€642of €920 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.	€920
Rent, 60 m²€3.88/m² · official · ine.pt · 2026-08-26	− €233
Internet€30 · official · MEO fixed fibre · 2026-09-30	− €30
Mobile plan€15 · official · Vodafone Portugal mobile plan · 2026-09-30	− €15
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€642

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Public employment service

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

Country-level information

Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional — Public employment service

Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP)

Job SearchRegistrationTraining

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

Healthcare

There were 270 physicians per 100,000 people in 2024.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Physicians per 100,000 residents	270 per 100,000	2024	Official INE Statistics of Health Personnel indicator 0012837: physicians per 1,000 inhabitants by municipality of residence. Exact municipality row selected by INE DICO geocod; value converted to the requested per-100k unit.⁹Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Manteigas when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

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.

Safety

How safe is Manteigas?

Police recorded 2,300 incidents per 100,000 (2022). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source.

Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents: 2,300 incidents per 100k · INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022³

Recorded crime across major citiesManteigas highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Porto5,240

Lisbon5,090

Almada3,580

Amadora3,330

Matosinhos2,910

Loures2,800

Cascais2,700

Sintra2,640

Vila Nova de Gaia2,570

Braga2,440

Oeiras2,380

Manteigas2,300

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	2,300 incidents per 100kcountry median 2,730	31 Dec 2022	INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022³Official

Language courses and integration

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

Country-level information

PLA search route through Portal da Oferta Formativa — State Language Course

AIMA / Portal da Oferta Formativa

For migrants seeking Portuguese as a non-native language.

PortugueseCost varies

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Português Língua de Acolhimento (PLA) — State Language Course

AIMA / DGEstE public-school network / IEFP / Centros Qualifica

For migrants aged 16 or older whose mother tongue is not Portuguese, residence-permit holders, people with pending residence/protection/NISS evidence.

PortugueseCEFR A1–B2Cost varies

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Climate and air quality

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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6°0°

7°1°

10°2°

11°3°

15°7°

20°11°

23°14°

19°11°

14°7°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

211

158

149

148

106

200

223

212

JFMAMJJASOND

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan 6.4 · Feb 7.1 · Mar 9.8 · Apr 11.1 · May 14.8 · Jun 19.5 · Jul 23.2 · Aug 23.4 · Sep 19.4 · Oct 13.8 · Nov 8.9 · Dec 7.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação PENHAS DOURADAS (nº 568)⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan 0.5 · Feb 0.6 · Mar 2.3 · Apr 3.4 · May 6.7 · Jun 10.7 · Jul 13.5 · Aug 13.7 · Sep 10.9 · Oct 7.2 · Nov 3.3 · Dec 1.5 °C	31 Dec 1991	IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação PENHAS DOURADAS (nº 568)⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 3.4 · Feb 3.9 · Mar 6 · Apr 7.3 · May 10.7 · Jun 15.1 · Jul 18.3 · Aug 18.6 · Sep 15.1 · Oct 10.5 · Nov 6.1 · Dec 4.4 °C	31 Dec 1991	IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação PENHAS DOURADAS (nº 568)⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 211 · Feb 158.2 · Mar 148.8 · Apr 147.9 · May 105.5 · Jun 41.2 · Jul 14.7 · Aug 23 · Sep 81.1 · Oct 199.7 · Nov 222.6 · Dec 211.5 mm	31 Dec 1991	IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação PENHAS DOURADAS (nº 568)⁶Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Portugal: Barcelos ±5.0 °C. Elsewhere: Neustadt in Holstein (Germany) ±0.9 °C, Werl (Germany) ±1.0 °C, Heide (Germany) ±1.1 °C, Meldorf (Germany) ±1.1 °C, Eutin (Germany) ±1.2 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Manteigas?

The published population was 2,248 people in April 2021. Source: Censos 2021 — Lugares por Freguesia (C21_LUGF_PT)¹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.5%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	122 km²	2021	Local normalized archive of official INE municipality rows: DICO identity, populationTotal and areaKm2 at municipality/LAU-1 grain.⁷Official
Foreign residents	78 people	2023	Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value.¹²Independent
Population density	28.12 people/km²	2021	Reproducible derived density from the same-period INE populationTotal divided by areaKm2; no external density number was substituted.⁷Official
Population	2,248 people	19 Apr 2021	Censos 2021 — Lugares por Freguesia (C21_LUGF_PT)¹Official

International community in Manteigas

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

Country of birth

Resident population at the 19 April 2021 Census reference date; total sex (HM) and total age; source-native indicator universe · 2021-04-19

Published group	People	Share
Total	2,909	100.0%
Portuguesa	2,774	95.4%
Estrangeira	135	4.6%
Europa	67	2.3%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)	55	1.9%
África	54	1.9%
Angola	43	1.5%
França	41	1.4%
Outros países - Europa	12	0.4%
América	10	0.3%
Brasil	8	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Alemanha	8	0.3%
Reino Unido	7	0.2%
Ásia	4	0.1%
Suíça	4	0.1%
Espanha	4	0.1%
Índia	4	0.1%
São Tomé e Príncipe	4	0.1%
Moçambique	3	0.1%
Outros países - África	2	0.1%
Cabo Verde	2	0.1%
Argentina	1	0.0%
Bélgica	1	0.0%
Dinamarca	1	0.0%
Ucrânia	1	0.0%
Estados Unidos da América	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁵

Citizenship

Resident population at the 19 April 2021 Census reference date; total sex (HM) and total age; source-native indicator universe · 2021-04-19

Published group	People	Share
Total	2,909	100.0%
Portuguesa	2,872	98.7%
Estrangeira	37	1.3%
Europa	17	0.6%
Outros países - Europa	9	0.3%
África	9	0.3%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)	8	0.3%
Reino Unido	8	0.3%
América	7	0.2%
Brasil	5	0.2%
Ásia	4	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Índia	4	0.1%
Angola	3	0.1%
França	3	0.1%
São Tomé e Príncipe	3	0.1%
Cabo Verde	2	0.1%
Alemanha	2	0.1%
Estados Unidos da América	2	0.1%
Outros países - África	1	0.0%
Áustria	1	0.0%
Bélgica	1	0.0%
Itália	1	0.0%
Ucrânia	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁴

Alternatives for people set on Manteigas

Nothing here reaches an argued comparison yet: no other published city shares enough metrics with Manteigas from the same source, period and grain. What is collected is below.

Alternative cities in Portugal

Other cities in Portugal to compare with Manteigas, nearest in population first.

All Portugal cities

São Romão2,259 residents Eixo2,309 residents Tunes2,155 residents Carcavelos2,382 residents Atouguia da Baleia2,448 residents Cacia2,046 residents

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School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 6 to 18, and public school is free. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: PLNM (Português Língua Não Materna). How to enrol a child (gov.pt).

A country-wide rule for Portugal; Manteigas's school authority applies it locally.

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

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Common questions

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

How many people live in Manteigas?

The published population was 2,248 people in April 2021. Source: Censos 2021 — Lugares por Freguesia (C21_LUGF_PT).

How much does it cost to rent in Manteigas?

Average net cold rent is 3.88 EUR/m² per month (2026-Q1), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 272 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.ine.pt.

How safe is Manteigas?

Police recorded 2,300 incidents per 100,000 (2022). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022.

What is the unemployment rate in Manteigas?

The unemployment rate is about 1.6 % (June 2026). Source: IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026.

How many foreign residents live in Manteigas?

78 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value..

Is Manteigas a good place to live?

Manteigas 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.

How many people born in Portuguesa live in Manteigas?

The official country of birth distribution records 2,774 people (95.4%) in the source-defined population for 2021-04-19. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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Censos 2021 — Lugares por Freguesia (C21_LUGF_PT) Censos 2021 · mapas.ine.pt · checked 2026-10-07
INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal) INE · ine.pt · checked 2026-09-23
INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022 INE · ine.pt · checked 2026-07-31
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal Censos 2021 indicator 0014632 nationality ine.pt · checked 2026-09-01
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal Censos 2021 indicator 0014633 country of birth ine.pt · checked 2026-09-01
IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação PENHAS DOURADAS (nº 568) IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 · ipma.pt · checked 2026-07-31
Local normalized archive of official INE municipality rows: DICO identity, populationTotal and areaKm2 at municipality/LAU-1 grain. ine.pt · checked 2026-07-15
MEO fixed fibre meo.pt · checked 2026-09-15
Official INE Statistics of Health Personnel indicator 0012837: physicians per 1,000 inhabitants by municipality of residence. Exact municipality row selected by INE DICO geocod; value converted to the requested per-100k unit. ine.pt · checked 2026-07-15
Vodafone Portugal mobile plan vodafone.pt · checked 2026-09-15

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www.ine.pt ine.pt · checked 2026-08-26
Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value. pordata.pt · checked 2026-07-15
IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026 IEFP · iefp.pt · checked 2026-07-26

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