Living in Vacarisses
Purchase: €2,142/m² (Jul 2025–Jun 2026) · Rent: €1,019/month (2025) · Data checked on 03/11/2026
- Price
- 1,019€/month rent2,142 €/m² to buy25% of the town's average household income
- Transport
- 111min by public transport to Plaça Catalunya
- Life
- —no data
Sources and notes
- Price: registered rental contracts · Generalitat (deposits) · read 03 Nov
- Transport: minutes by official timetable · ATM, Renfe and FGC · read 11 Oct
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Transport
40 min by car with no traffic
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Vacarisses at a glance
- The sea
- Inland
- No coastline of its own
- To Plaça Catalunya by public transport
- 111 min
- 2 changes: bus + bus + FGC (M5, M8A, S1)
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- Barcelona
- 31 km
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Public transport from Vacarisses, mode by mode
From Vacarisses, 1 public transport mode runs to Barcelona between 7 and 9am: Rodalies. The quickest to the centre is Rodalies, 57 minutes.
- Rodalies R4
- Every 40 min
- Minutes between departures at 7–9am. Lines: R4. From Vacarisses-Torreblanca. 57 min to the centre.
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Journey times from Vacarisses
Driving times with no traffic. Every town measured from its official centre (Cap de municipi).
- Drive to central Barcelona · calculated 3 Nov 2026
- 40 min
- Drive to La Sagrera · calculated 3 Nov 2026
- 34 min
- Drive to El Prat airport · calculated 3 Nov 2026
- 46 min
Sources and notes
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.
- Close in, higher priceL'Hospitalet de LlobregatBarcelonès20 min€3,107/m²The quickest of the towns above the median price.See the town →
- Further out, lower priceBadia del VallèsVallès Occidental44 min€1,637/m²The lowest price per m² under 60 minutes away.See the town →
- Middle groundMontcada i ReixacVallès Occidental24 min€2,391/m²Where minutes and price balance out most evenly.See the town →
*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
On average, a home sold here costs €253,000 and has 152 m².
Rate: 0.948%.
Sources and notes
- Buy: Resale homes sold from July 2025 to June 2026.
- Property tax on an average home: Catastro, 2026. Last Catastro revaluation: 2001.
Vacarisses 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 Vacarisses worth it?
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What it measures: what you pay each month today, renting in Barcelona, minus what you would pay renting in Vacarisses, 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 Vacarisses, you'd pay €116 less a month.
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Vacarisses: every figure with its rank
Where each figure ranks among the towns we cover in its comarca.
What you pay each year in Vacarisses
- Property tax rate · data from 2026
- 0.948%
- Building works tax (ICIO) · data from 2026
- 4%
Sources and notes
Buying and renting in Vacarisses
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
- €2,142
- Monthly rent · a month, average of registered leases · read 3 Nov 2026
- €1,019
- 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
- 8
- 0.1 per 100 residents. No planning licence needed: the town is not on the Decree-law 3/2023 list.
In Vacarisses, resale homes went from €1,119 per m² in 2015 to €2,010 in 2025: +80%. In the last year, +13%.
Generalitat de Catalunya, registered sales of resale homes. Completed sales only, never asking prices. With fewer than 150 sales a year, the figure jumps around from year to year. For 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, we use the average of the four quarters, weighted by sales, because the Generalitat doesn't publish a full-year figure by town.
See how prices in Vacarisses have risen compared with other towns →Sources and notes
In Vacarisses, average net household income was €49,493 a year in 2024 (Barcelona: €49,915). A 70 m² flat at the average resale price equals 3 years of that income; in Barcelona, 7. The average rent on contracts signed in 2025 (€1,019 a month) takes 25% of an average household's income.
Between 2015 and 2024, household income changed +53% and the resale price per m² +59%.
Within the town, net income per person ranges from €15,570 to €18,752 across census sections (4 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.
Selling in Vacarisses: before you sign, transfer tax and rebates →Cost of moving →
Life
The Diputació does not publish the survey for this town.
9.5 km in a straight line to the hospital with A&E (Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa).
The Interior Ministry only publishes safety figures for towns over 20,000 people.
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In Terrassa. American curriculum (Common Core) and the IB Diploma, from age 1 to grade 12. Fees not published on its website.
392 residents; 5 in 10 are European. 2025 census.
Hospitals near Vacarisses
Distance as the crow flies from the town centre.
- Nearest public hospital with 24-hour A&E · read 19 Sep 2026
- Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa
- Distance as the crow flies · read 19 Sep 2026
- 9.5 km
- In Terrassa.
Sources and notes
Before you decide: Vacarisses
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
- 189 people/km²
- 7,710 residents.
- Residents under 15 · aged 65+
- 15.9% · 12.4%
- Flood risk (the Generalitat's INUNCAT plan)
- 4/4
- Level 4 of 4, official category “very high” (the highest of the five types). By type: river, moderate; flood-prone zones (torrents), moderate; surface water (heavy rain), high; dam or pond failure, very high. 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 21 December 2005.
- Forest fires, 2011-2024
- 15
- 0.1 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
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).
- Rodalies R4 · read 11 Oct 2026
- Every 40 min
- Lines: R4. From Vacarisses-Torreblanca into Barcelona, 7–9am. 57 minutes on board to central Barcelona.
- Full trip to central Barcelona · read 11 Oct 2026
- 111 min
- From the town centre, leaving 7–9am, waits included: 2 changes: bus + bus + FGC. With 5 office days a week, 69.4 hours a month on public transport: time to read, not to drive.
- To the airport by public transport · read 11 Oct 2026
- 145 min
- To T1 or T2, leaving 7–9am, waits included: 3 changes: bus + bus + FGC + bus.
Sources and notes
Measured at Vacarisses, 1.7 km away, at 343 m. 3653 daily readings.
Compare
With your same work and your same limit. It is not a criterion: it is what you do next.
| Price | min to Plaça Catalunya | Life | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vacarisses | €1,019/month | 111 min | no datasatisfied residents |
| L'Ametlla del Vallès | €1,016/month | 101 min | 91.9%satisfied residents |
| Collbató | €1,056/month | 100 min | 87.9%satisfied residents |
| Sant Cebrià de Vallalta | €1,108/month | 114 min | 88.9%satisfied residents |
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Tap one to put it side by side with Vacarisses. Beside each one, its council's property tax rate.
Towns like Vacarisses
The towns closest to it on price per m², rent, public transport time to the centre and size, wherever they are. Its neighbours are just above.
- L'Ametlla del VallèsVallès OrientalAverage rent€1,016/monthhere: €1,019/month
- CollbatóBaix LlobregatPrice per m²€2,242/m²here: €2,142/m²
- Sant Cebrià de VallaltaMaresmeTo Plaça Catalunya114 minhere: 111 min
- Santa SusannaMaresmePrice per m²€2,066/m²here: €2,142/m²
*Each figure is scaled from 0 to 1 between the lowest and highest town (population on a log scale) and the four gaps are added up. Only towns with all four figures take part. Price per m², resale homes: Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge — compravendes registrades, Jul 2025–Jun 2026, read 3 Nov 2026. Average rent: Secretaria d'Habitatge, Generalitat de Catalunya — average rent on registered leases, 2025, read 3 Nov 2026. To Plaça Catalunya by public transport: ATM, Renfe and FGC GTFS timetables. Door to door, waits included, leaving 7–9am, read 11 Oct 2026. Residents: Idescat, EMEX, 2025, read 3 Nov 2026.
Sources and notes for this page
- Ordenanzas fiscales municipales (tipo del IBI urbano y bonificaciones) (Ayuntamientos; Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona)Period: 2026 · Read on 24 September 2026 · Licence: Public regulation (municipal tax ordinances)
- Información impositiva municipal: IBI, ICIO, año de revisión catastral e IIVTNU (plusvalía) (Ministerio de Hacienda, Secretaría General de Financiación Autonómica y Local)Period: 2026 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Reuse of public-sector information (Spanish Law 37/2007)
- Estadística del Catastro urbano: valor catastral medio residencial (Dirección General del Catastro)Period: 2026 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Reuse of public-sector information
- Compravendes d'habitatge registrades: precio por m² construido de la vivienda usada (Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge (datos de los Registradores))Period: 2025-07/2026-06 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Reutilización citando la fuente
- Alquiler medio de los contratos registrados (fianzas del Incasòl) (Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge)Period: 2025 anual · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Sistema Estatal de Índices de Alquiler de Vivienda (SERPAVI): renta mediana de los alquileres declarados (Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana)Period: 2024 · Read on 7 October 2026 · Licence: Reuse of public-sector information (Spanish Law 37/2007)
- Period: 2024 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: CC BY 4.0 (own elaboration with INE data)
- Period: Censo 2021 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: CC BY 4.0 (own elaboration with INE data)
- Bonificación de la plusvalía municipal (IIVTNU) al heredar la vivienda, leída en la ordenanza fiscal (Ayuntamientos; Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona; ORGT de la Diputació de Barcelona)Period: 2026 · Read on 26 September 2026 · Licence: Normativa pública
- Period: 2026 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Period: 2026 · Read on 11 October 2026 · Licence: ATM vía el Punto de Acceso Nacional: licencia de datos del NAP, «Powered by MITRAMS», datos procesados; FGC: CC BY 4.0 (dadesobertes.fgc.cat, comprobado el 09/10/2026); autobuses interurbanos: datos abiertos de la Generalitat de Catalunya; Renfe: CC BY 4.0
- Period: 2026 · Read on 11 October 2026 · Licence: CC BY 4.0 (data.renfe.com, comprobado el 09/10/2026)
- Directori de centres docents (estudios extranjeros) y web de cada colegio (cuotas publicadas) (Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Educació; colegios)Period: 2026-27 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes; cuotas citadas de la web de cada colegio
- Zonas de mercado residencial tensionado (Ley 12/2023) (Boletín Oficial del Estado)Period: 2024-2027 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Public regulation (BOE official gazette)
- Prórroga (TER/3739/2026) y nueva declaración (TER/3740/2026) de zona tensionada, DOGC núm. 9775 del 19/10/2026 (Generalitat de Catalunya)Period: 2026 · Read on 25 October 2026 · Licence: Public regulation (DOGC official gazette)
- Period: 2023-2024 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: CC BY 4.0 (citar Diputació de Barcelona y fecha)
- Registre de Turisme de Catalunya: habitatges d'ús turístic (Generalitat de Catalunya)Period: 2026-10 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes
- Censo de población: residentes extranjeros (Idescat)Period: 2025 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Reutilización citando Idescat
- Hospitales de agudos (distancia en línea recta desde el Cap de municipi) (CatSalut)Period: 2026 · Read on 19 September 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes
- Densidad de población (habitantes por km²) (Idescat, El municipio en cifras (EMEX))Period: 2025 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Reutilización citando Idescat
- Riesgo de inundación (INUNCAT) y peligro de incendio forestal (INFOCAT) asignados a cada municipio (Generalitat de Catalunya, Protecció Civil (eqag-gzjs))Period: 2026 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Días al año por encima de 30 °C y noches por debajo de 5 °C, de la estación de la XEMA atribuida a cada municipio (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, dades diàries de la XEMA (7bvh-jvq2))Period: 2015-2024 · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Dades obertes de la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Registre d'agents immobiliaris de Catalunya (AICAT) (Agència de l'Habitatge de Catalunya)Period: 2026 · Read on 7 October 2026 · Licence: Registro público
- Period: últimos 12 meses disponibles · Read on 3 November 2026 · Licence: Use authorised by the Notariado, quoting the source verbatim (the citation stays in Spanish)
Common questions
- Is there an international school near Vacarisses?
- The nearest is Gresol International-American School, in Terrassa.
- How far is the beach from Vacarisses?
- 39 minutes by car from the town centre (Platja dels Patins de Vela).
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.
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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