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Évora’s council owes less than the law allows, and its debt index has fallen to less than half in ten years: from 242,6 %source · calculated in 2014 to 105,5 %source · calculated in 2024. Average monthly earnings are 1 484,5 euros per monthsource · INE, below Portugal, where they are 1 576,0 euros per monthsource · INE.
111,47 index (Portugal = 100) · 2023source · INE
Évora (111,47) ranks 12th of the 308 municipalities with a value for purchasing power per inhabitant, from the highest to the lowest.
It is above Portugal’s average (100).
Index of purchasing power per person, where Portugal is one hundred: above one hundred, purchasing power per person in the municipality is higher than the country average; published for every municipality.
7 907 enterprises · 2024source · INE
Counts the non-financial enterprises attributed to the municipality (integrated business accounts system).
54 681 562 euros · 2024source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)
The council’s debt that counts towards the legal limit at year end (DGAL’s “dívida total”, without non-budget debts, the exceptions in the law and the contribution to the municipal support fund, the “Fundo de Apoio Municipal”).
no published value · December 2025source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)
Évora has no published value for this period, so it has no place among the 299 municipalities with a value for the average time to pay suppliers.
No comparison with Portugal for the same period.
The average number of days the council takes to pay its suppliers (DGAL’s “prazo médio de pagamento”, from its annual list).
105,5 % of the average revenue of the previous three years · 2024source · calculated
within the legal limit, which is 150 %
Évora (105,5) ranks 287th of the 307 municipalities with a value for the debt index, from the lowest to the highest.
No comparison with Portugal for the same period.
Debt as a percentage of the average net current revenue that the municipality collected in the previous three years; the law allows one and a half times that average.
1 409 people · December 2025 (the source has already published July 2026; read on 01.09.2026)source · Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP)
Counts the unemployed people registered with the employment service at month end (registered unemployment).
1 484,5 euros per month · 2024source · INE
Évora (1 484,5) ranks 35th of the 308 municipalities with a value for average monthly earnings, from the highest to the lowest.
It is below Portugal, where the average is 1 576,0 euros per month.
What full-time employees on full pay earn per month, on average, before deductions, from the staff records of the labour ministry’s strategy and planning office.
58 567 people · 2025source · INE
Estimates how many people have their home in the municipality (resident population), from the statistics institute’s annual estimate.
What does the Câmara de Évora budget, collect, pay and owe, and how did the debt inherited from the rescue get to where it is?
Évora’s budget has drifted from the money that arrives, and the strain shows in unpaid invoices and the payment queue, not in the legal debt: 137source · Município de Évora days to pay a supplier, and 4 976 172,24 eurossource · Município de Évora overdue, with total debt still below the limit.
Quem governou a Câmara de Évora desde 2009, com que maioria, quem teve cada pelouro, e o que decidiu cada executivo?
Évora’s portfolios sit with the president’s own list in the terms for which the council publishes the split, and the municipality’s accounts are not cut in a way that lets anyone say what each councillor spent: in the 2021–2025 term, 12source · Município de Évora and 10source · Município de Évora portfolio designations split between two people (a portfolio is an area of the council’s work that the president assigns by order to a member of the executive); the council installed in 2025 has 7source · Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Administração Interna (SGMAI) seats.
What does the municipality of Évora produce, what public money reaches it outside the council, through whose hands, and how much of it is late?
Of the recovery-plan money contracted in the municipality, the university holds more than the council: 38 596 975,81 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal against 12 069 012,6 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal. Of the sum approved for the municipality, 61,32 %source · calculated sits in overdue project locations, that is, in the part of each project that the register attributes to the municipality whose planned completion date has passed with no completion recorded, and 51,95 %source · calculated has been paid, and the two parts overlap: the overdue locations have also received money.
What did Évora's bid for European Capital of Culture promise, what did the European experts who follow it write about it, and what money is written into the official acts?
The State’s money is what arrived; the council’s is what is missing. The documents show three different totals for the cost of the event and no document that reconciles them, because the protocol that divides the money between the parties is not published.
Published studies about Évora6 → 4 studiesrow · O Estado do País
Published studies about Évora5 → 6 studiesrow · O Estado do País
Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) funds approved for Évora167 366 755,84 → 167 372 755,84 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal[a verificar] · a field not confirmed against the source, not a doubt about what is published
Share of approved funds already paid50,61 → 51,95 % of the approved amountsource · calculated
Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) funds paid in Évora84 699 317,63 → 86 944 668,69 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal[a verificar]
Approved funds in projects past their deadline102 618 703,85 → 102 624 703,85 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal[a verificar]
Share of approved funds in projects past their deadline61,31 → 61,32 % of the approved amountsource · calculated
Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) funds approved for Évora166 639 411,36 → 167 366 755,84 eurossource · Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal[a verificar]
The measures
The reading of each measure
The debt index, computed on the directorate-general’s data, fell from 242,6 %source · calculated in 2014 to 105,5 %source · calculated in 2024.
2014242,6source · calculated2017182,0source · calculated2021141,9source · calculated2024105,5source · calculated
Who answers for what
Open each term2009–20132013–20172017–20212021–20252025– in office
The excess over the legal ceiling · 32 559 910 eurossource · Município de Évora January 2014 → 943 664 eurossource · Município de Évora December 2019.
How far the debt exceeded the legal limit, in the first and the last year in which the report publishes it as a positive figure. After that the table turns negative, and a negative there is no longer excess but borrowing capacity.
The portfolio counts are designations, not spending.
There is no counterfactual for any index, and an executive’s share of them is not separable.