The new figures for the number of foreigners registered on the padrón (town hall registries) are out. If you aren't on the padrón you don't exist, so that's an easy way for the bean-counters to arrive at an exact if hopelessly wrong figure.
The interesting thing is how much older we expats are than our Spanish neighbours - in Almería we are apparently 20 years senior. No wonder we don't like fireworks. In truth, we are pretty elderly, with our average age in this province put at 61 years. Indeed, our largest age-group is 70-74 with 2,870 of us tottering about and, as above, waiting for this blasted red rain to have finished with us. Aged sixty and up, there are 10,996 of us: which works out at the remarkable news that very nearly two-thirds of us Brits living in Almería are over 60 years old. In all, including the nippers, we are 17,200 souls, says the official Padrón site here, up from the previous year with an extra 1,210 of us to annoy the staff at the medical centre.
Across Spain, there are 282,124 Brits on the padrón, and we are fourth in foreign numbers behind the Moroccans, Rumanians and the Colombians. The Germans are 13th with 109,556 residents (a smidgen in front of the French at Nº 14 with 109,397). The official British presence, Brexit notwithstanding, has increased for the current 2022 figures by 19,239, but again, our oldies are more than our young'uns, with 33,100 of us inexplicably trapped at the 70-74 age (25 of us are 99 or older).
So the Red Rain probably won't put us off coming to live in Spain, and neither will the Eurovision Song Contest. Somehow, we are managing to work our way around the pen-pushers too... One day, maybe they'll write an epic poem about us.
2 comments:
So what has increased do you think? The number of Brits in Almería or the number of Brits who have legalized themselves by registering?
Probably the latter.
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