Living in Terras de Bouro
In Terras de Bouro, average gross earnings are €1,184 a month (2024) and unemployment is 1.7% (2026).
Terras de Bouro is a city in Portugal, with a population of 7,253 in 2021. In June 2026, the unemployment rate was 1.68%. There were 200 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.
Which Portugal-wide rules apply when you move to Terras de Bouro?
National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.
Housing and cost
No city-level rent figure is published for Terras de Bouro. The available city-level cost figures remain below.
Is Terras de Bouro 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.
Work and income
What is the unemployment rate in Terras de Bouro?
The unemployment rate is about 1.7 % (June 2026).
- Unemployment rate: 1.68 % · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 202627
Terras de Bouro 1.7%
Unemployment rate (%)
Public employment service
No exact public employment office is currently linked to Terras de Bouro. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.
Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional — Public employment service
Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Terras de Bouro. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.
Healthcare
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians per 100,000 residents | 200 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.10Official |
Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Terras de Bouro 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.
Open the official coverage guideSafety
How safe is Terras de Bouro?
Police recorded 2,780 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: 2,780 incidents per 100k · INE — Taxa de criminalidade (‰) por Localização geográfica (NUTS 2013) e Categoria de crime; Anual, indicador 0008074, categoria Total, ano 20225
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents | 2,780 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 20225Official |
Mobility and administration
The nearest airport was OPO, 61 km away, with 61 listed destinations in June 2026.
Language courses and integration
No exact city-level course record is currently published for Terras de Bouro. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.
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.
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.
Climate and air quality
Night-time low to daytime high
mm
Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³
City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.
Terras de Bouro 23.0
annual PM10, µg/m³ · cities per band
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO₂ — annual mean | 42 µg/m³ | 31 Dec 2024 | EEA air quality statistics — PT NO2 annual mean 2024 (station Fr Bartolomeu Mártires-S.Vitor)1Official · nearest-station reading |
| PM10 — annual mean | 23 µg/m³ | 31 Dec 2024 | EEA air quality statistics — PT PM10 annual mean 2024 (station Fr Bartolomeu Mártires-S.Vitor)2Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average daytime high by month | Jan 14.1 · Feb 15.5 · Mar 17.8 · Apr 19.6 · May 23 · Jun 26.1 · Jul 28.2 · Aug 28.7 · Sep 26.9 · Oct 22.2 · Nov 17 · Dec 14.9 °C | 31 Dec 1991 | IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação BRAGA (Merelim) (nº 622)8Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average night-time low by month | Jan 3.1 · Feb 3.4 · Mar 5.9 · Apr 7.8 · May 10.4 · Jun 13.2 · Jul 14.3 · Aug 14 · Sep 12.4 · Oct 10.1 · Nov 6 · Dec 3.7 °C | 31 Dec 1991 | IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação BRAGA (Merelim) (nº 622)8Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average temperature by month | Jan 8.6 · Feb 9.5 · Mar 11.9 · Apr 13.7 · May 16.7 · Jun 19.7 · Jul 21.2 · Aug 21.4 · Sep 19.7 · Oct 16.1 · Nov 11.5 · Dec 9.3 °C | 31 Dec 1991 | IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação BRAGA (Merelim) (nº 622)8Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average precipitation by month | Jan 179.5 · Feb 111.1 · Mar 150.1 · Apr 127.9 · May 89.8 · Jun 40.6 · Jul 27.9 · Aug 34.6 · Sep 67.6 · Oct 197.8 · Nov 170.1 · Dec 190.3 mm | 31 Dec 1991 | IPMA Normais Climatológicas 1991-2020 — IPMA estação BRAGA (Merelim) (nº 622)8Official · nearest-station reading |
Similar climate. In Portugal: Gondomar ±2.2 °C. Elsewhere: Ventura (United States) ±2.7 °C, Murfreesboro (United States) ±3.3 °C, Little Rock (United States) ±3.3 °C, Oklahoma City (United States) ±3.5 °C, Downey (United States) ±3.6 °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
The city covered 277.5 km² in 2021. Population density was 26.1 people per km² in 2021.
How many people live in Terras de Bouro?
The published population was 7,253 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro)4
By nationality
National passport98.4%
Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City area | 277.5 km² | 2021 | INE — Portal municipal (quadro)4Official |
| Foreign residents | 114 people | 2023 | Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value.26Independent |
| Population density | 26.14 people/km² | 2021 | Reproducible derived density from the same-period INE populationTotal divided by areaKm2; no external density number was substituted.13Official |
| Population | 7,253 people | 2021 | INE — Portal municipal (quadro)4Official |
International community in Terras de Bouro
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 | 6,358 | 100.0% |
| Portuguesa | 5,988 | 94.2% |
| Estrangeira | 370 | 5.8% |
| Europa | 234 | 3.7% |
| União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020) | 179 | 2.8% |
| França | 105 | 1.7% |
| América | 85 | 1.3% |
| Outros países - Europa | 55 | 0.9% |
| Brasil | 52 | 0.8% |
| Luxemburgo | 43 | 0.7% |
| África | 40 | 0.6% |
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| Published group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Suíça | 28 | 0.4% |
| Canadá | 25 | 0.4% |
| Angola | 22 | 0.3% |
| Alemanha | 18 | 0.3% |
| Moçambique | 12 | 0.2% |
| Reino Unido | 11 | 0.2% |
| Ásia | 9 | 0.1% |
| Outros | 9 | 0.1% |
| Espanha | 8 | 0.1% |
| Outros países - Ásia | 5 | 0.1% |
| Federação da Rússia | 4 | 0.1% |
| Bélgica | 3 | 0.0% |
| China | 3 | 0.0% |
| Estados Unidos da América | 3 | 0.0% |
| Venezuela | 3 | 0.0% |
| Outros países - África | 2 | 0.0% |
| Outros países - América | 2 | 0.0% |
| Oceânia | 2 | 0.0% |
| Cabo Verde | 2 | 0.0% |
| Ucrânia | 2 | 0.0% |
| Outros países - Oceânia | 1 | 0.0% |
| Austrália | 1 | 0.0% |
| Guiné-Bissau | 1 | 0.0% |
| Hungria | 1 | 0.0% |
| Índia | 1 | 0.0% |
| Moldávia | 1 | 0.0% |
| Roménia | 1 | 0.0% |
| São Tomé e Príncipe | 1 | 0.0% |
Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source7
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 | 6,358 | 100.0% |
| Portuguesa | 6,262 | 98.5% |
| Estrangeira | 96 | 1.5% |
| Europa | 51 | 0.8% |
| União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020) | 39 | 0.6% |
| América | 38 | 0.6% |
| Brasil | 29 | 0.5% |
| França | 14 | 0.2% |
| Outros países - Europa | 12 | 0.2% |
| Luxemburgo | 8 | 0.1% |
| Espanha | 7 | 0.1% |
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| Published group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Reino Unido | 6 | 0.1% |
| Canadá | 5 | 0.1% |
| Alemanha | 5 | 0.1% |
| Suíça | 4 | 0.1% |
| África | 3 | 0.0% |
| Outros países - América | 2 | 0.0% |
| Ásia | 2 | 0.0% |
| Oceânia | 2 | 0.0% |
| Angola | 2 | 0.0% |
| Bélgica | 2 | 0.0% |
| China | 2 | 0.0% |
| Outros | 2 | 0.0% |
| Outros países - Oceânia | 1 | 0.0% |
| Austrália | 1 | 0.0% |
| Cabo Verde | 1 | 0.0% |
| Hungria | 1 | 0.0% |
| Países Baixos (Reino dos) | 1 | 0.0% |
| Roménia | 1 | 0.0% |
| Estados Unidos da América | 1 | 0.0% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.0% |
Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source6
Alternatives for people set on Terras de Bouro
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.
Barcelos as a Terras de Bouro alternative in the same region
33 km away, better on 2 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.
- Residents: 116,752 Barcelos vs 7,253 Terras de Bouro+1510%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,990 Barcelos vs 2,780 Terras de Bouro−28%
- Unemployment: 2.1% Barcelos vs 1.7% Terras de Bouro+23%
- Nearest airport: 32.2 km Barcelos vs 61.0 km Terras de Bouro−47%
Alcobaça as a Terras de Bouro alternative in the same country
A move, not a commute, at 248 km, better on 1 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.
- Residents: 55,597 Alcobaça vs 7,253 Terras de Bouro+667%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,290 Alcobaça vs 2,780 Terras de Bouro−18%
- Nearest airport: 86.6 km Alcobaça vs 61.0 km Terras de Bouro+42%
- Unemployment: 1.7% Alcobaça vs 1.7% Terras de Bourosame level
Cities near Terras de Bouro
Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.
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- 5.95 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-03-31
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- 6.18 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-03-31
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- 6.18 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
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- 4.44 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
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- 5.95 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
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- 5.83 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
- Rent
- 5 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
Alternative cities in Portugal
Other cities in Portugal to compare with Terras de Bouro, nearest in population first.
How does Terras de Bouro compare?
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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; Terras de Bouro's school authority applies it locally.
Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.
Common questions
Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.
How many people live in Terras de Bouro?
The published population was 7,253 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro).
How safe is Terras de Bouro?
Police recorded 2,780 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 Terras de Bouro?
The unemployment rate is about 1.7 % (June 2026). Source: IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026.
How many foreign residents live in Terras de Bouro?
114 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value..
Is Terras de Bouro a good place to live?
Terras de Bouro 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 Terras de Bouro?
Sande, Caldelas, Amares, Ponte da Barca, Vila Verde are near Terras de Bouro. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.
How many people born in Portuguesa live in Terras de Bouro?
The official country of birth distribution records 5,988 people (94.2%) 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Terras de Bouro, Portugal: population, salary, jobs, safety [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 1939edf5f4960f02f1ae4ab184667150]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/pt/terras-de-bouro/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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