Alcalá de Henares rents: the declared figures
At 9,42 €/m², Alcalá de Henares is an expensive rental market by Spanish standards. It is 20,6 % above the reference of five years earlier. 12.836 declared leases stand behind the figure, so the quartiles are as solid as this statistic gets.
Rents declared on income-tax returns for main-residence leases, not asking prices. They lag the market and exclude holiday lets.
A sense of scale
Within Madrid, that is the second highest number of declared leases among the municipalities this guide covers.
Nationally, that population falls in the second-dearest twentieth.
Set against the other Madrid municipalities in this guide, it has the fourteenth lowest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the lower-quartile rent per square metre is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.
How it ranks
Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the fifteenth lowest median declared monthly rent of the group.
Put beside the rest of the country, its reference rent per square metre belongs to the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.
Judged only against Madrid, the upper-quartile rent per square metre here is the eighteenth highest in the guide.
On a national view, its median floor area of a let flat falls into the fourth-cheapest twentieth.
The comparison that matters
Line the Madrid municipalities in this guide up by five-year change in the reference rent and this one is the eighteenth lowest.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of main homes that are rented is in the upper middle of the range.
How much of the stock is rented
Only 8,29 % of Alcalá de Henares dwellings are not a main home, so almost nothing is competing with long leases.
Renting accounts for 18,25 % of main homes in Alcalá de Henares, close to the Spanish norm.
The reference figures, in a market that prices by size alone
7,90 €/m² to 11,21 €/m² is a very narrow spread: Alcalá de Henares prices by square metre and rewards little else.
12.836 declared leases stand behind the figure, so the quartiles are as solid as this statistic gets.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 7,90 €/m² |
| Median | 9,42 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 11,21 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 697,76 € |
| Median floor area | 74 m² |
Testing a quote against the declared figures
697,76 € a month is the median declared rent in Alcalá de Henares, above the national middle.
The median flat in Alcalá de Henares measures 74 m², an ordinary Spanish size.
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 435 € | 518 € | 617 € |
| 75 m² | 593 € | 707 € | 841 € |
| 100 m² | 790 € | 942 € | 1.121 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
Related guides
Sources and licences
- MIVAU, Sistema Estatal de Referencia del Precio del Alquiler de Vivienda (SERPAVI), base 2011-2024. Period: 2024; 2019-2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse "para usos comerciales y no comerciales" with the source and its last-update date cited. Values are rents declared on income-tax returns, not asking prices.
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, viviendas por tipo (tabla 59525). Period: 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (INE legal notice). Attribution: "Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE".
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, régimen de tenencia en municipios de más de 50.000 habitantes y capitales (tabla 59529). Period: 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (INE legal notice). Attribution: "Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE".
- MIVAU, registro de zonas de mercado residencial tensionado (art. 18 Ley 12/2023). Period: 16 September 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse for commercial and non-commercial purposes with the source and its last-update date cited.