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São Pedro do Sul

The council debt of São Pedro do Sul is within the legal limit (debt index of 55,5 %source · calculated) and purchasing power per person is below the country average (index of 74,80source · INE, with the country average as the base). Average monthly earnings are 1 117,0 euros per monthsource · INE, below Portugal, where they are 1 576,0 euros per monthsource · INE.

Themes

Economy and public finances

Non-financial enterprises

1 809 enterprises · 2024source · INE

What this number is

Counts the non-financial enterprises attributed to the municipality (integrated business accounts system).

Total municipal debt

9 418 552 euros · 2024source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)

What this number is

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”).

Average payment time

49 days · December 2025source · Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)

São Pedro do Sul (49) ranks 266th of the 299 municipalities with a value for the average time to pay suppliers, from the lowest to the highest, level with 3 other municipalities with the same value.

No comparison with Portugal for the same period.

What this number is

The average number of days the council takes to pay its suppliers (DGAL’s “prazo médio de pagamento”, from its annual list).

Purchasing power per inhabitant

74,80 index (Portugal = 100) · 2023source · INE

São Pedro do Sul (74,80) ranks 206th of the 308 municipalities with a value for purchasing power per inhabitant, from the highest to the lowest.

It is below Portugal’s average (100).

What this number is

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.

Debt index

55,5 % of the average revenue of the previous three years · 2024source · calculated

within the legal limit, which is 150 %

São Pedro do Sul (55,5) ranks 235th of the 307 municipalities with a value for the debt index, from the lowest to the highest, level with another municipality with the same value.

No comparison with Portugal for the same period.

What this number is

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.

Labour

Average monthly earnings

1 117,0 euros per month · 2024source · INE

São Pedro do Sul (1 117,0) ranks 282nd 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 this number is

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.

Population

Resident population

15 867 people · 2025source · INE

What this number is

Estimates how many people have their home in the municipality (resident population), from the statistics institute’s annual estimate.

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