Santa Eugènia de Ter has become the first neighborhood in Girona with more than 10,000 inhabitants in which the population born outside of Spain exceeds half of the census. The neighborhood has 10,732 registered residents and 5,424 of them were born abroad, 50.54% of the total.
This data breaks the image of an autochthonous majority in one of the most populated areas of the city and confirms a sustained change in the last decade. In 2015, the percentage of residents born outside of Spain in Santa Eugènia de Ter was 37.3%.
Santa Eugènia de Ter went from 37.3% to 50.54% in ten years
The figures come from the municipal census processed by the INE on March 31 of this year, with updates on movements until December 31 of the previous year. The leap places Santa Eugènia de Ter above the 50% threshold for the first time since the Girona City Council Observatory began collecting this series.
By origin, the largest group within the population born outside of Spain in the neighborhood is made up of people from Central or South America, with 2,840 registered residents. Following them are 1,055 residents from the Maghreb, 667 from sub-Saharan Africa, 330 from the European Union, 303 from Asia, and 187 from the rest of Europe.
The census also records 23 inhabitants from North America, 14 from the Middle East, and two from Oceania. Overall, the distribution confirms that the increase is not due to a single geographical origin, but to diverse origins concentrated in the same neighborhood.
El Barri Vell also exceeded 50% and La Creueta reached 63.2% with 68 residents
Santa Eugènia de Ter is not the only neighborhood above that level, although it is the most significant in terms of population volume. El Barri Vell registers 1,933 people born outside of Spain compared to 1,748 born in Spain, which is equivalent to 52.5% of the total.
La Creueta reaches 63.2% of the population born abroad, but on a census of only 68 inhabitants. In medium-sized neighborhoods, Can Gibert del Pla is at 44.9% out of 8,392 residents and Sant Ponç reaches 40%.
The situation in the most populated areas of the city is very different. Eixample Sud has 23,639 inhabitants and 31.6% of the population born outside of Spain, while Eixample Nord has 22,795 residents and 27.4%.
At the opposite extreme are les Hortes, with no population born abroad among its seven registered residents, as well as Domeny Nord with 8.9%, Montjuïc with 13.7%, Germans Sàbat with 14.6%, and Font de la Pólvora with 17%.
Girona reached 30.8% of population born outside Spain
In the municipality as a whole, Girona registers 110,057 registered inhabitants. Of these, 33,907 were born abroad, representing 30.8% of the population.
The distribution by origin in the entire city maintains a pattern similar to that of Santa Eugènia de Ter, with 16,854 people from Central or South America, 6,008 from the Maghreb, 3,515 from the European Union, 2,597 from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2,171 from Asia, and 1,737 from the rest of Europe.
Compared to 2015, the growth has been sustained. At that time, 21% of Girona's inhabitants had been born outside Spain, with 20,603 people out of a total of 97,907.
Now, the city has 33,907 registered foreign-born residents, while those born in Girona have decreased to 38,943, below the 39,344 registered eleven years ago.