Most international cities in Portugal

Odivelas, Portugal has the highest foreign-resident share of the 30 cities compared: 21.79 % (Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value., 2023-12-31).

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Portugal cities ranked by the published share of foreign residents; definitions remain source-specific.

Items compared: 30
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-09-17

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

Showing all 30 rows

Original rank	City or place			Source and scope
1	Odivelas, Portugal	21.79 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
2	Amadora, Portugal	20.91 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
3	Lisbon, Portugal	20.2 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
4	Cascais, Portugal	20 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
5	Faro, Portugal	17.9 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
6	Sintra, Portugal	16.3 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
7	Loures, Portugal	16 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
8	Almada, Portugal	14.51 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
9	Seixal, Portugal	13.15 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
10	Setúbal, Portugal	12.2 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
11	Aveiro, Portugal	11.8 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
12	Oeiras, Portugal	11.48 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
13	Braga, Portugal	10.7 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
14	Leiria, Portugal	10.08 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
15	Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal	9.9 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
16	Coimbra, Portugal	9.6 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
17	Porto, Portugal	7.3 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
18	Funchal, Portugal	7 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
19	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal	6.8 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
20	Viana do Castelo, Portugal	6.3 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
21	Matosinhos, Portugal	5.99 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
22	Viseu, Portugal	5.9 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
23	Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal	5.76 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
24	Maia, Portugal	4.68 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
25	Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal	3.68 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
26	Guimarães, Portugal	3.5 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
27	Gondomar, Portugal	3.34 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
28	Barcelos, Portugal	3.04 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
29	Ponta Delgada, Portugal	2.9 %	2026-08-03	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31
30	Valongo, Portugal	2.88 %	2026-09-17	Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31

What the numbers say

Odivelas, Portugal leads at 21.79 %.
Valongo, Portugal sits at the other end with 2.88 %.
The middle of this ranking is 9.9 %, across 30 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 18.91 %.

Quick answer

What does Most international cities in Portugal show?

How this list is built

Every row is a published foreign-resident share observation measured in %, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2023. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 30 places
Geographic grain: city
Observation period: 2023-12-31
Last checked: 2026-09-17
With an official source link: 30 of 30

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Most international cities in Portugal [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 689f6ec0dff24ea759674cfcf6172c59]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/portugal-most-international-cities/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_most-international-cities-in-portugal_1a0d3ae08263,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Most international cities in Portugal},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {689f6ec0dff24ea759674cfcf6172c59},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/reports/portugal-most-international-cities/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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Sources

Foreign population with legal resident status at 31 December; Total Nacionalidade; annual municipality value.PORDATA | INE | AIMA/MP · Checked 2026-09-17
EurostatEurostat · Checked 2026-08-03