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Living in Olivella

Purchase: €1,724/m² (Jul 2025–Jun 2026) · Rent: €1,436/month (2025) · Data checked on 03/11/2026

Price
1,436€/month rent1,724 €/m² to buy37% of the town's average household income
Transport
—no data
Life
—no data
Sources and notes
  • Price: registered rental contracts · Generalitat (deposits) · read 03 Nov

36 of 54 figures with a source and date · 18 no data

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A view of Olivella

Photo: Julien Lagarde · CC BY-SA 2.5

Transport

Plaça Catalunya
no data
by public transport

56 min by car with no traffic

22@
no data
by public transport

By car: not worked out yet for this destination

La Sagrera
no data
by public transport

By car: not worked out yet for this destination

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Olivella at a glance

The sea
Inland
No coastline of its own
Public transport to Barcelona
No direct service
No direct service between 7 and 9am

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From Olivella, as the crow flies
Barcelona
34 km
Sources and notes
Municipal boundaries and the location of public services.
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Journey times from Olivella

Driving times with no traffic. Every town measured from its official centre (Cap de municipi).

Drive to central Barcelona · calculated 3 Nov 2026
56 min
Drive to La Sagrera · calculated 3 Nov 2026
60 min
Drive to El Prat airport · calculated 3 Nov 2026
42 min
Walk to the nearest beach · calculated 3 Nov 2026
132 min
Walk to a school · Nearest school, on foot · calculated 3 Nov 2026
51 min
Sources and notes
OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from the town centre.
Calculated by Verithic
If you work in Barcelona

Three ways to reach Plaça Catalunya every morning

Door to door by public transport, leaving between 7 and 9am, waits included. We time the trip to Plaça Catalunya; if your office is elsewhere, add the onward journey from there.

*To Plaça Catalunya by public transport: ATM, Renfe and FGC GTFS timetables. Door to door, waits included, leaving 7–9am, read 11 Oct 2026. Price per m², resale homes: Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge — compravendes registrades, Jul 2025–Jun 2026, read 3 Nov 2026.

Price

Rent
€1,436/month
average of registered contracts
Buy
€1,724/m²
resale homes sold

On average, a home sold here costs €321,000 and has 204 m².

Property tax on an average home
€896/year
rate × average cadastral value

Rate: 1.0307%.

Sources and notes
  • Buy: Resale homes sold from July 2025 to June 2026.
  • Property tax on an average home: Catastro, 2026. Last Catastro revaluation: 2000.
Rent-capped area

Olivella has had a rent cap since 9 October 2024.

Rent on a new contract is capped by law; seasonal and by-the-room lets too since 1 January 2026 (Llei 11/2025).

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Sources and notes
  • Rent-capped area: BOE of 9 October 2024 (BOE-A-2024-20576): resolution TER/2408/2024. Read on 3 November 2026.

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Is moving from Barcelona to Olivella worth it?

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Monthly difference

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€302
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What it measures: what you pay each month today, renting in Barcelona, minus what you would pay renting in Olivella, at the average rent of its contracts, whatever the floor area (your reference home: 79 m², the average sold in Barcelona). These are published averages for each municipality, not your own flat.

Going by public averages, if you moved from Barcelona to Olivella, you'd pay €302 more a month.

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Olivella: every figure with its rank

Where each figure ranks among the towns we cover in its comarca.

€1,724/m²
Price to buy
€1,436/month
Monthly rent
16.4%
Empty homes (2021 Census)
1.0307%
Property tax rate
0.53%5/61.111%
€896/year
Property tax on an average home
No trip 7–9am
To Plaça Catalunya by public transport

No public transport journey 7–9am we can give. We don't estimate minutes.

56 min
Drive to Barcelona
41 min6/656 min
42 min
Drive to the airport
28 min6/642 min
23 min
Drive to the beach
51 min
Walk to a school
1 min6/651 min

What you pay each year in Olivella

Property tax rate · data from 2026
1.0307%
Building works tax (ICIO) · data from 2026
4%
Sources and notes
Rate: the council's 2026 tax bylaw (published 18 December 2025). Building works tax and Catastro revaluation: Spanish Ministry of Finance, 2026. Average home: Catastro, 2026.
Read 24 September 2026

Buying and renting in Olivella

Rent is the average of every registered rental contract.

Price to buy · per m², resale homes sold, Jul 2025–Jun 2026 · read 3 Nov 2026
€1,724
Monthly rent · a month, average of registered leases · read 3 Nov 2026
€1,436
Plusvalía (the council tax on the land-value gain when you sell) · read 3 Nov 2026
30%
Charged on the rise in land value, and only if you sell at a gain (Royal Decree-law 26/2021). Spanish Ministry of Finance, 2026. See the deadlines if you inherit
Rent-controlled area · read 3 Nov 2026
Yes
Rents capped by law since 9 October 2024, including seasonal and room lets since 1 January 2026.
Tourist flats · on the register, 5 October 2026 · read 3 Nov 2026
213
4.8 per 100 residents. No planning licence needed: the town is not on the Decree-law 3/2023 list.
Sources and notes
Generalitat de Catalunya — registered sales of used homes (Jul 2025–Jun 2026) and the rental-deposit register.
Read 3 November 2026
What it costs, against what people earn

In Olivella, average net household income was €47,045 a year in 2024 (Barcelona: €49,915). A 70 m² flat at the average resale price equals 2.6 years of that income; in Barcelona, 7. The average rent on contracts signed in 2025 (€1,436 a month) takes 37% of an average household's income.

Within the town, net income per person ranges from €16,201 to €17,293 across census sections (2 sections).

Income: INE (Spanish Statistics Office), Household Income Distribution Atlas; Verithic's calculation (2024, CC BY 4.0). Price: Generalitat, resale transactions. Rent: Generalitat, deposits on signed contracts. These are town averages, not anyone's actual income or flat.

Read on 3 November 2026

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Life

Satisfied residents
no data
with living in its comarca

The Diputació does not publish the survey for this town.

School and A&E
51 min
walk to a school

5.1 km in a straight line to the hospital with A&E (Hospital Residència Sant Camil).

Space
115 people/km²
population density

The Interior Ministry only publishes safety figures for towns over 20,000 people.

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Nearest international schoolRichmond International School

In Sant Pere de Ribes. British school (NABSS member), ages 3 to 18. Fees not published on its website.

Foreign residents23.6%

1,055 residents; 8 in 10 are European. 2025 census.

Hospitals near Olivella

Distance as the crow flies from the town centre.

Nearest public hospital with 24-hour A&E · read 19 Sep 2026
Hospital Residència Sant Camil
Distance as the crow flies · read 19 Sep 2026
5.1 km
In Sant Pere de Ribes.
Sources and notes
CatSalut — Cercador de centres sanitaris (list); Wikidata (coordinates, CC0)
Read 19 September 2026

Before you decide: Olivella

What no listing tells you: how many people live here and how old they are, the flood and fire risk the Generalitat gives the town, the forest fires on record and the crimes known to the police.

Density
115 people/km²
4,473 residents.
Residents under 15 · aged 65+
15.9% · 13.2%
Flood risk (the Generalitat's INUNCAT plan)
3/4
Level 3 of 4, official category “high” (the highest of the five types). By type: flood-prone zones (torrents), high; surface water (heavy rain), low. The level set in the council's civil-protection plan. It is not a forecast.
Forest-fire hazard (INFOCAT plan)
3/4
Level 3 of 4 against the Catalan average (“above average”). Vulnerability very high. Municipal wildfire plan: pending review; approved on 10 December 2021.
Forest fires, 2011-2024
8
105.7 ha of woodland burned in the municipality over those years.
Known crimes (2025)
No data
The Ministry of the Interior only publishes towns with more than 20,000 residents. We don't estimate it.
Sources and notes
Density and ages: Idescat, EMEX, 2025. Flood and fire risk: Generalitat de Catalunya, Protecció Civil: plans INUNCAT e INFOCAT por municipio (eqag-gzjs), read 3 November 2026. Forest fires: Generalitat de Catalunya, Incendis forestals a Catalunya (bks7-dkfd). Known crimes (criminal offences): Ministry of the Interior, Crime Report 2025; population: INE, register at 1 January 2025; rate calculated by Verithic; read 17 October 2026.

Getting into Barcelona

Every public transport service into Barcelona between 7 and 9am on a school-day Tuesday, from the stop in town with the most departures, and the minutes on board to central Barcelona (direct services only).

Public transport · read 11 Oct 2026
No direct service
No direct service into Barcelona between 7 and 9am: every journey involves a change or a drive.
Sources and notes
Generalitat de Catalunya / ATM — horarios del transporte público de Cataluña y de los autobuses interurbanos (GTFS); Renfe Cercanías (GTFS, CC BY 4.0); FGC (GTFS)
Read 11 October 2026
Weather · 2015-2024
Average temperature
16.6 °C
Daily average
Days of rain a year
49
498 mm a year
Days above 30 °C
49
43 nights below 5 °C
Days of frost a year
1.7
This station doesn't measure sunshine

Measured at Sant Pere de Ribes - PN del Garraf, 3.6 km away, at 164 m. 3651 daily readings.

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Sources and notes for this page
Common questions
Is there an international school near Olivella?
The nearest is Richmond International School, in Sant Pere de Ribes.
How far is the beach from Olivella?
23 minutes by car from the town centre (Platja dels Balmins).
Method: where each figure comes from and how the fit score works

How the fit score works

  • Each criterion scores 0 to 100.
  • Transport: 100 if the trip is at or under your maximum; it falls in a straight line to 0 at 1.5 times the maximum.
  • Price: 100 at or under your limit; 0 at 1.3 times the limit.
  • Services, Space and Surroundings: the index for each dimension (percentile 0 to 100 within its area). Residents: the % satisfied.
  • A criterion with a limit (Transport and Price) only fits if the figure does not pass your limit; if it does and still scores 60 or more, it is «partly», with its figure. The others fit from 60 and are «partly» from 40. The score is the average of the criteria you gave.
  • If you pick a priority (Price, Transport or Life), that block counts double. In Price and Transport the score is also the average of the fit to your limit and the town's rank among those in its area (the cheapest, or the closest, scores 100): so, between two that fit your limit, the cheaper or closer one wins.
  • A town with no data on a criterion is not scored on it. Nobody pays to rank higher.
Indices by dimension
Cost38/100€1,724/m² for used homes · €1,436/month average rent · €896/year IBI on an average homeConnectionsno indexno index: not enough figures to compute it.Services nearby37/10051 min walk to school · 5.1 km to the acute-care hospital · 4.7 km to the international schoolSpace97/100115 inhabitants per km² · average used home of 204 m²Surroundings43/1004.8 tourist flats per 100 residents · natural hazard 3.8 out of 8 · 92 hot days or cold nights a year · 132 min walk to the beach

Scores from 0 to 100 by rank among the 124 towns in Barcelona and around (100 is the best). Cut-off: 3 November 2026. How it is calculated

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