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Living in Tomar

In Tomar, average gross earnings are €1,327 a month (2024), rents in new contracts average €7.15 per m² a month (2026) and unemployment is 1.3% (2026).

Tomar had 43,007 residents in 2021 and is a city in Portugal. In June 2026, the unemployment rate was 1.34%.

Last checked 2026-09-2326 sources

Population43,007people2021Official source · INE — Portal municipal (quadro)
Average gross salary1,327EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)
Average net rent7.15EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.20 — 15% aboveOfficial source · www.ine.pt
Unemployment rate1.34%country median 2.3% — 42% belowIndependent source · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026
Recorded crime2,900incidents per 100kcountry median 2,730 — 6% 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

Pricier rent than 62% of Portuguese cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 94% of Portuguese cities that publish it and cleaner air than 74% of Portuguese cities that publish it.

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

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

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Tomar?

Average net cold rent is 7.15 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): 7.15 EUR/m²/month · www.ine.pt15
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Tomar recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€30
Mobile plan, 10 GB€15
Net rent across major citiesTomar highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Tomar highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Lisbon€17.42
Cascais€16.50
Oeiras€15.42
Almada€13.43
Braga€8.57
Tomar€7.15
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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
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited29.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026MEO fixed fibre7Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB15 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Vodafone Portugal mobile plan14Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)7.15 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.2026 Aug 2026www.ine.pt15Official

Is Tomar 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 worker60%strong on work, weak on safety · range 52–68%
Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on education · range 57–73%
Student53%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 44–62%
Family55%strong on family, weak on education · range 47–63%
Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 51–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 429 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.15 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 Tomar?

The unemployment rate is about 1.3 % (June 2026).

  • Unemployment rate: 1.34 % · IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 202626
Unemployment across cities in PortugalUnemployment in Tomar is 1.3%. Of 279 cities with data, 131 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Average gross earnings1,327 EUR/month31 Dec 2024INE — Ganho médio mensal (€), indicator 0012649 (Quadros de Pessoal)2Official
Unemployment rate1.34 %country median 2.3%30 Jun 2026IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 202626Independent

What does a salary buy in Tomar?

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

Portugal median gross pay: €1,099 (2022-12-31).
Left over each month€446of €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€7.15/m² · official · ine.pt · 2026-08-26− €429
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€446
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Tomar Salary needed to live in Tomar

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Tomar. 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

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Physicians per 100,000 residents310 per 100,0002024Official 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 Tomar 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 guide
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Tomar?

Police recorded 2,900 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: 2,900 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 citiesTomar highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Tomar highlighted

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Porto5,240
Lisbon5,090
Almada3,580
Amadora3,330
Matosinhos2,910
Tomar2,900
Loures2,800
Cascais2,700
Sintra2,640
Vila Nova de Gaia2,570
Braga2,440
Oeiras2,380
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents2,900 incidents per 100kcountry median 2,73031 Dec 2022INE — 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 LIS, 110.1 km away, with 103 listed destinations in June 2026.

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport103 count13 Jun 2026OpenFlights — routes.dat10Official
Nearest airportLIS13 Jun 2026OurAirports — airports.csv11Official
Distance to nearest airport110.1 km13 Jun 2026OurAirports — airports.csv11Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Tomar. 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

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

Find courses near Tomar

Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Tomar?

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

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 Tomar is 5.0 µg/m³. Of 72 cities with data, 27 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
PM2.5 — annual mean5 µg/m³country median 6.231 Dec 2024European Environment Agency1Official
Monthly extreme high temperatureJan 21.35 · Feb 23.04 · Mar 28.38 · Apr 30.44 · May 36.2 · Jun 40.31 · Jul 40.7 · Aug 42.7 · Sep 41.51 · Oct 36.05 · Nov 25.52 · Dec 19.74 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center8Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -4.23 · Feb -3.93 · Mar -4.37 · Apr 0.8 · May 4.19 · Jun 7.58 · Jul 10.2 · Aug 10.44 · Sep 9.25 · Oct 3.45 · Nov -0.87 · Dec -4.96 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center8Official
Average temperature by monthJan 8.07 · Feb 8.99 · Mar 11.55 · Apr 14.12 · May 17.56 · Jun 21.19 · Jul 23.4 · Aug 24.09 · Sep 21.8 · Oct 17.18 · Nov 11.44 · Dec 8.43 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center8Official
Annual PM2.5 over time10 published observations, 2015–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 54.5% between 2015 and 2024, from 11.0 to 5.0.

Population and city profile

The city covered 351.2 km² in 2021. Population density was 122.5 people per km² in 2021.

How many people live in Tomar?

The published population was 43,007 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro)3

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area351.2 km²2021INE — Portal municipal (quadro)3Official
Foreign residents1,796 people2023Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value.25Independent
Population density122.5 people/km²2021Reproducible derived density from the same-period INE populationTotal divided by areaKm2; no external density number was substituted.12Official
Population43,007 people2021INE — Portal municipal (quadro)3Official

International community in Tomar

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 groupPeopleShare
Total36,413100.0%
Portuguesa33,74992.7%
Estrangeira2,6647.3%
Europa1,0803.0%
África9902.7%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)6381.8%
América4921.4%
Angola4871.3%
Outros países - Europa4421.2%
Brasil3881.1%
França3741.0%
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Published groupPeopleShare
Moçambique3511.0%
Reino Unido1760.5%
Suíça1680.5%
Ásia970.3%
Ucrânia780.2%
Alemanha730.2%
África do Sul450.1%
Cabo Verde440.1%
China430.1%
Países Baixos (Reino dos)390.1%
Venezuela380.1%
Outros países - África340.1%
Espanha280.1%
Estados Unidos da América270.1%
Índia250.1%
Roménia250.1%
Bélgica240.1%
Itália220.1%
Outros países - América200.1%
Outros países - Ásia190.1%
Canadá170.0%
Guiné-Bissau160.0%
São Tomé e Príncipe130.0%
Bulgária120.0%
Irlanda110.0%
Moldávia80.0%
Federação da Rússia80.0%
Luxemburgo60.0%
Oceânia50.0%
Bangladeche50.0%
Paquistão50.0%
Polónia50.0%
Hungria40.0%
Letónia40.0%
Suécia40.0%
Outros40.0%
Austrália30.0%
Outros países - Oceânia20.0%
Argentina20.0%
Finlândia20.0%
Áustria10.0%
Chipre10.0%
Dinamarca10.0%
Lituânia10.0%
Eslováquia10.0%

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 groupPeopleShare
Total36,413100.0%
Portuguesa35,40197.2%
Estrangeira1,0122.8%
Europa4921.4%
América3010.8%
União Europeia 27 (s/ PT - a partir de 2020)2570.7%
Brasil2490.7%
Outros países - Europa2350.6%
Reino Unido1640.5%
África1250.3%
Ásia900.2%
Show 44 more groups
Published groupPeopleShare
Angola680.2%
França590.2%
Ucrânia560.2%
China530.1%
Países Baixos (Reino dos)470.1%
Itália320.1%
Alemanha260.1%
Cabo Verde210.1%
Roménia210.1%
Índia200.1%
Estados Unidos da América200.1%
Bélgica150.0%
Espanha130.0%
Venezuela130.0%
Irlanda120.0%
Outros países - África100.0%
Outros países - América100.0%
Guiné-Bissau90.0%
Bulgária80.0%
Canadá80.0%
Suíça80.0%
Outros países - Ásia70.0%
Polónia70.0%
São Tomé e Príncipe70.0%
Bangladeche50.0%
Letónia50.0%
Moçambique50.0%
Paquistão50.0%
Suécia50.0%
África do Sul50.0%
Oceânia40.0%
Outros países - Oceânia30.0%
Moldávia30.0%
Federação da Rússia20.0%
Outros20.0%
Argentina10.0%
Austrália10.0%
Chipre10.0%
Dinamarca10.0%
Finlândia10.0%
Hungria10.0%
Lituânia10.0%
Luxemburgo10.0%
Eslováquia10.0%

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

Alternatives for people set on Tomar

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.

Amarante as a Tomar alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 188 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Unemployment: 2.9% Amarante vs 1.3% Tomar+113%
  • Rent: €4.63/m² Amarante vs €7.15/m² Tomar−35%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,010 Amarante vs 2,900 Tomar−31%
  • Nearest airport: 29.9 km Amarante vs 110.1 km Tomar−73%
  • Residents: 52,264 Amarante vs 43,007 Tomar+22%

Tallinn as a Tomar alternative in another country

A move, not a commute, at 3195 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 €7.15/m² (2026) Tomarno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 5.6 km Tallinn vs 110.1 km Tomar−95%
  • Annual PM2.5: 3.0 µg/m³ Tallinn vs 5.0 µg/m³ Tomar−40%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,030 (2025) Tallinn vs 2,900 (2022) Tomarno percentage

Cities near Tomar

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

Constância 14.8 km away
Rent
5.6 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
Ourém 15.3 km away
Rent
6.85 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
Entroncamento 15.4 km away
Rent
7.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
Torres Novas 16.4 km away
Rent
6.65 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-08-26
Riachos 19.2 km away
Rent
6.65 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-03-31
Fátima 20.3 km away
Rent
6.85 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2026-03-31

Alternative cities in Portugal

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

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Tomar in rankings

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; Tomar'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 Tomar?

The published population was 43,007 people in 2021. Source: INE — Portal municipal (quadro).

How much does it cost to rent in Tomar?

Average net cold rent is 7.15 EUR/m² per month (2026-Q1), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 501 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.ine.pt.

Is the air quality good in Tomar?

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

How safe is Tomar?

Police recorded 2,900 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 Tomar?

The unemployment rate is about 1.3 % (June 2026). Source: IEFP — registered unemployment by municipality, June 2026.

How many foreign residents live in Tomar?

1,796 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value..

Is Tomar a good place to live?

Tomar 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 Tomar?

Constância, Ourém, Entroncamento, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Ferreira do Zêzere are near Tomar. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Portuguesa live in Tomar?

The official country of birth distribution records 33,749 people (92.7%) 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). Tomar, Portugal: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 79e2b8f9b5465a77dc9fd0520ee29d5f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/pt/tomar/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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