Lanzarote Statistics and Demographics 2022

Would you like to know more about current property market conditions and trends in Lanzarote? We've put together some useful information for prospective buyers to help them in their property search. Most of this data comes from the Spanish Institute of National Statistics (INE), as well as Canarian based statistics agencies such as ISTAC (Instituto Canario de Estadísticas) and the Centro de Datos on Lanzarote.

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Population and Demographics

Lanzarote’s current official population at year end 2021 stands at 156,189 residents.

This figure represents the highest yet recorded and represents an increase of .24% versus 2020 figures. And of these, 31% are residents who were born elsewhere than in the Canary Islands (48,636), with non-Canarian residents also showing a small increase over figures from 2020, but a much larger rise since 2019, when there were 45,691 residents in Lanzarote who were not born there.

While this increase is statistically small it indicates that the population continues to grow year on year and has done since 2015, after several years of relatively stable figures following the financial crisis in 2008, when the economy and number of residents contracted

Despite the popularity of Lanzarote as a holiday destination its total population accounts for just 6.95% of the entire 2,246,370 population of the Canary Islands (ISTAC figures from 2021).

House Prices

How has the pandemic and Brexit impacted house prices on Lanzarote? How much does it currently cost to buy a property in Lanzarote?

Property prices vary even on a small island like Lanzarote, as some areas are more sought after than others.

Price € per m² by municipality

	2021	2020	2019
Arrecife	1,340	1,394	1,453
Haría	1,613	1,694	1,795
San Bartolome	1,963	1,869	1,901
Teguise	2,009	1,960	1,953
Tías	2,409	2,462	2,521
Tinajo	1,587	1,494	1,545
Yaiza	2,290	2,367	2,381

These figures illustrate that the three municipalities with tourist resorts (Tias, Teguise and Yaiza) in them consistently have higher selling prices than the four other municipalities, indicating that this is where the demand for property is most consistent.

Tourist Visitor Numbers

The Coronavirus pandemic obviously caused a massive disruption in tourist visitor numbers during the course of 2020, reducing arrivals to 795,213 in total for the year.

2021 showed a significant recovery in tourist numbers, with the annual total standing at 1,188,783, an interannual increase of 49%. Revealing just how quickly holiday demand can rise when factors that have prevented people from travelling are removed.

Foreign Tourist Arrivals

2021	1,188,783
2020	795,213
2019	3,065,575
2018	3,063,108
2017	3,146,117
2016	2,632,657
2015	2,193,273
2014	2,094,083
2013	1,870,159
2012	1,716,694
2011	1,708,490
2010	1,482,045
2009	1,367,499
2008	1,587,237
2007	1,618,215
2006	1,682,596
2005	1,688,223
2004	1,774,714
2003	1,853,067
2002	1,781,388
2001	1,791,741
2000	1,761,966
1999	1,720,842
1998	1,662,587
1997	1,464,570
1996	1,318,195

Foreign Tourist Arrivals in 2019 by Nationality

Country	Arrivals
UK	1,420,765
Germany	397,972
Ireland	311,688
Spain	309,548
France	157,727
Holland	97,063
Nordic Countries	95,851
Italy	68,997
Belgium	52,863
Other nationalities	153,100

British tourist numbers remained fairly constant at around 46% of the total number of visitors, with numbers rising slightly between 2018 and 2019. German visitors also declined in 2019 by 5.52% in comparison with figures for 2018, but Irish holidaymakers went up by over 20,000 or 6.95% at the same time. With increases also noted in the Spanish holiday market of 36,404 more visitors in 2019 and amongst French tourists (8,227 more). Most of the other tourist markets saw declines in visitor numbers – the Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian and Italian markets all saw lower figures of arrivals than in 2018.