Living in Reguengos de Monsaraz

In Reguengos de Monsaraz, average gross earnings are €1,237 a month (2024), rents in new contracts average €5.57 per m² a month (2026) and unemployment is 3.3% (2026).

Reguengos de Monsaraz is in Portugal; its population was 10,828 in 2021. For Reguengos de Monsaraz, the unemployment rate was 3.26% in June 2026. There were 140 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2318 sources

Population10,828people2021Official source · INE — Portal municipal (quadro)

Average gross salary1,237EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)

Average net rent5.57EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.20 — 10% belowOfficial source · www.ine.pt

Unemployment rate3.26%country median 2.3% — 40% aboveIndependent source · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026

Recorded crime3,420incidents per 100kcountry median 2,730 — 25% aboveOfficial source · INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022

PM2.5, annual mean5µg/m³country median 6.2 — 19% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 64% of Portuguese cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 85% of Portuguese cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 77% of Portuguese cities that publish it.

Which Portugal-wide rules apply when you move to Reguengos de Monsaraz?

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

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in PortugalNational rates and thresholds that apply in Reguengos de Monsaraz.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

Average net cold rent is 5.57 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): 5.57 EUR/m²/month · www.ine.pt¹⁴

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€30

Mobile plan, 10 GB€15

Net rent across major citiesReguengos de Monsaraz highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Lisbon€17.42

Cascais€16.50

Oeiras€15.42

Almada€13.43

Braga€8.57

Reguengos de Monsaraz€5.57

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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 fibre⁷Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	15 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Vodafone Portugal mobile plan¹³Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	5.57 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.20	26 Aug 2026	www.ine.pt¹⁴Official

Is Reguengos de Monsaraz a good place to live?

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Remote worker56%strong on work, weak on safety · range 48–64%

Skilled employee60%strong on work, weak on education · range 52–68%

Student52%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 43–61%

Family49%strong on family, weak on education · range 41–57%

Retirement56%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 47–65%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 334 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.57 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 Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (June 2026).

Unemployment rate: 3.26 % · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹⁸

Unemployment across cities in PortugalUnemployment in Reguengos de Monsaraz is 3.3%. Of 279 cities with data, 131 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

131

0–11–22–33–44–55–66–77–89–1012–13

Reguengos de Monsaraz 3.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average gross earnings	1,237 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)²Official
Unemployment rate	3.26 %country median 2.3%	30 Jun 2026	IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026¹⁸Independent

What does a salary buy in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

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

Left over each month€541of €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€5.57/m² · official · ine.pt · 2026-08-26	− €334
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	€541

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Reguengos de Monsaraz. 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 Reguengos de Monsaraz. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Physicians per 100,000 residents	140 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 Reguengos de Monsaraz 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 Reguengos de Monsaraz?

Police recorded 3,420 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: 3,420 incidents per 100k · INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 2022⁴

Recorded crime across major citiesReguengos de Monsaraz highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Porto5,240

Lisbon5,090

Almada3,580

Reguengos de Monsaraz3,420

Amadora3,330

Matosinhos2,910

Loures2,800

Cascais2,700

Sintra2,640

Vila Nova de Gaia2,570

Braga2,440

Oeiras2,380

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	3,420 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 2022⁴Official

Mobility and administration

The nearest airport was BJZ, 81.3 km away, with 2 listed destinations in June 2026.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	2 count	13 Jun 2026	OpenFlights — routes.dat¹⁰Official
Nearest airport	BJZ	13 Jun 2026	OurAirports — airports.csv¹¹Official
Distance to nearest airport	81.3 km	13 Jun 2026	OurAirports — airports.csv¹¹Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Reguengos de Monsaraz. 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

Open official information

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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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Reguengos de Monsaraz.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency¹

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

PM2.55WHO 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 PortugalAnnual PM2.5 in Reguengos de Monsaraz is 5.0 µg/m³. Of 72 cities with data, 27 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

1–22–33–44–55–66–77–88–99–10

Reguengos de Monsaraz 5.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	5 µg/m³country median 6.2	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency¹Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 21.13 · Feb 22.67 · Mar 28.15 · Apr 30.45 · May 36.54 · Jun 42.99 · Jul 44.01 · Aug 44.63 · Sep 42.5 · Oct 35.62 · Nov 25.77 · Dec 21.38 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁸Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -4.63 · Feb -4.6 · Mar -2.91 · Apr 1.94 · May 3.92 · Jun 8.9 · Jul 11.4 · Aug 11.96 · Sep 9.67 · Oct 3.5 · Nov -2.09 · Dec -5.42 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁸Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 8.24 · Feb 9.18 · Mar 11.81 · Apr 14.47 · May 18.46 · Jun 23.06 · Jul 25.82 · Aug 26.23 · Sep 22.96 · Oct 17.88 · Nov 11.88 · Dec 8.84 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁸Official

Annual PM2.5 over time7 published observations, 2015–2024

3.4

6.5

9.5

12.6

5.02015202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 58.3% between 2015 and 2024, from 12.0 to 5.0.

Population and city profile

The city covered 464 km² in 2021. Population density was 23.3 people per km² in 2021.

How many people live in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The published population was 10,828 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro)³

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport96.7%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	464 km²	2021	INE — Portal municipal (quadro)³Official
Foreign residents	359 people	2023	Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value.¹⁷Independent
Population density	23.34 people/km²	2021	Reproducible derived density from the same-period INE populationTotal divided by areaKm2; no external density number was substituted.¹²Official
Population	10,828 people	2021	INE — Portal municipal (quadro)³Official

International community in Reguengos de Monsaraz

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	9,871	100.0%
Portuguesa	9,467	95.9%
Estrangeira	404	4.1%
Europa	259	2.6%
Outros países - Europa	169	1.7%
Moldávia	100	1.0%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)	90	0.9%
América	84	0.9%
Brasil	78	0.8%
África	48	0.5%
Ucrânia	36	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Angola	27	0.3%
Roménia	21	0.2%
Suíça	20	0.2%
França	20	0.2%
Alemanha	19	0.2%
Ásia	13	0.1%
Espanha	13	0.1%
China	11	0.1%
Moçambique	10	0.1%
Reino Unido	8	0.1%
Países Baixos (Reino dos)	6	0.1%
Canadá	4	0.0%
Federação da Rússia	4	0.0%
África do Sul	4	0.0%
Bélgica	3	0.0%
Cabo Verde	3	0.0%
Itália	3	0.0%
Outros países - África	2	0.0%
Outros países - América	2	0.0%
Luxemburgo	2	0.0%
Suécia	2	0.0%
Outros países - Ásia	1	0.0%
Grécia	1	0.0%
Guiné-Bissau	1	0.0%
Índia	1	0.0%
São Tomé e Príncipe	1	0.0%
Outros	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁶

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	9,871	100.0%
Portuguesa	9,650	97.8%
Estrangeira	221	2.2%
Europa	132	1.3%
Outros países - Europa	87	0.9%
América	65	0.7%
Brasil	63	0.6%
Moldávia	46	0.5%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)	45	0.5%
Ucrânia	25	0.3%
Ásia	18	0.2%

Show 19 more groups

Published group	People	Share
China	17	0.2%
Roménia	16	0.2%
Reino Unido	14	0.1%
Espanha	7	0.1%
França	7	0.1%
África	6	0.1%
Alemanha	4	0.0%
Cabo Verde	3	0.0%
Itália	3	0.0%
Países Baixos (Reino dos)	3	0.0%
Outros países - África	2	0.0%
Bélgica	2	0.0%
Suíça	2	0.0%
Suécia	2	0.0%
Outros países - América	1	0.0%
Outros países - Ásia	1	0.0%
Angola	1	0.0%
Canadá	1	0.0%
Grécia	1	0.0%

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

Alternatives for people set on Reguengos de Monsaraz

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.

Portel as a Reguengos de Monsaraz alternative in the same region

19 km away, better on 2 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Unemployment: 2.1% Portel vs 3.3% Reguengos de Monsaraz−36%
Residents: 6,428 Portel vs 10,828 Reguengos de Monsaraz−41%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,020 Portel vs 3,420 Reguengos de Monsaraz−12%
Nearest airport: 100.8 km Portel vs 81.3 km Reguengos de Monsaraz+24%

Full comparison More about Portel

Amarante as a Reguengos de Monsaraz alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 321 km, better on 4 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Residents: 52,264 Amarante vs 10,828 Reguengos de Monsaraz+383%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,010 Amarante vs 3,420 Reguengos de Monsaraz−41%
Rent: €4.63/m² Amarante vs €5.57/m² Reguengos de Monsaraz−17%
Nearest airport: 29.9 km Amarante vs 81.3 km Reguengos de Monsaraz−63%
Unemployment: 2.9% Amarante vs 3.3% Reguengos de Monsaraz−13%

Full comparison More about Amarante

Tallinn as a Reguengos de Monsaraz alternative in another country

A move, not a commute, at 3260 km, better on 2 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Rent: €7.33/m² (2008) Tallinn vs €5.57/m² (2026) Reguengos de Monsarazno percentage
Nearest airport: 5.6 km Tallinn vs 81.3 km Reguengos de Monsaraz−93%
Annual PM2.5: 3.0 µg/m³ Tallinn vs 5.0 µg/m³ Reguengos de Monsaraz−40%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,030 (2025) Tallinn vs 3,420 (2022) Reguengos de Monsarazno percentage

Full comparison More about Tallinn

Cities near Reguengos de Monsaraz

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Portugal

Other cities in Portugal to compare with Reguengos de Monsaraz, nearest in population first.

All Portugal cities

Avintes10,836 residents Lavra10,968 residents São Brás de Alportel10,662 residents Sacavém10,650 residents São João de Ver11,026 residents Grijó10,626 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; Reguengos de Monsaraz's school authority applies it locally.

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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 Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The published population was 10,828 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro).

How much does it cost to rent in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

Average net cold rent is 5.57 EUR/m² per month (2026-Q1), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 390 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.ine.pt.

Is the air quality good in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Reguengos de Monsaraz?

Police recorded 3,420 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 Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The unemployment rate is about 3.3 % (June 2026). Source: IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026.

How many foreign residents live in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

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

Is Reguengos de Monsaraz a good place to live?

Reguengos de Monsaraz 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.

Which cities are near Reguengos de Monsaraz?

Portel is near Reguengos de Monsaraz. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Portuguesa live in Reguengos de Monsaraz?

The official country of birth distribution records 9,467 people (95.9%) 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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