Of the total population, 78.1 percent are Spanish, while the rest are made up of 82 nationalities, including Morocco with 10.24 percent of the total population, Ecuador with 4.6 percent, Romania with a 1.6 and Bolivia, Ghana, the United Kingdom or Bulgaria that exceed 0.5 percent
The Councilman of Statistics of the City council of Lorca, Francisco García, has done this morning an analysis of the population of the municipality.
Specifically, the provisional population, without the impact of casualties that the INE will send in the monthly file corresponding to the month of October, is 94,591 inhabitants as of October 31, 2017, which means that so far this year there has been there was a growth of 1,078 people.
Of these data, 51.4 percent are men, a logical aspect in a receiving society of immigration, and 48.6 percent women.
Francisco García has indicated that "of the total population 78.1 percent are Spanish, while the rest is made up of 82 nationalities, among which Morocco stands out with 10.24 percent of the total population, Ecuador with a 4.6 per cent, Romania with 1.6 and Bolivia, Ghana, United Kingdom or Bulgaria that exceed 0.5 per cent.The spatial distribution shows that the resident population in the urban area is 64.5 per cent, leaving the rest distributed among the districts, being the most populated La Hoya (4,086 hab), Campillo (3,946 hab), Tercia (3,057 hab) and Cazalla (2,909 hab.) and the least Culebrina (9 hab) and Puntarrón (5 habs) ".
The Councilor for Statistics has indicated that "the movement of the population is reflected both in the highs and casualties that occur, classifying those highs and lows according to their motive." The total of discharges included in the Municipal Register of Inhabitants until the month of October has been 3,909, broken down by 2,731 by change of residence (from other Spanish municipalities or from abroad), 424 by default, (people discharged for administrative reasons and not real movement) and 754 by birth. of low impact on the registration register has been 2,912 distributed in 1,670 by change of residence to other Spanish municipalities or abroad, 767 administrative after the resolution of the appropriate records and 475 death.
Space movements of the population
Of the 2,731 registrations registered for change of residence corresponding to citizens of 54 different nationalities, during the first ten months of the year in the Municipal Register of Inhabitants a total of 31 percent corresponds to citizens of Moroccan origin, and 32 percent of Spanish citizens, while around 6 percent are nationals of Romania and Ecuador.
If we focus on the countries of origin of the people registered, 58 percent come from Spanish municipalities.
According to the nationality of the citizen who causes high, Spaniards come mostly from Spain (88.4%), while 6.2 do so from Ecuador and 2.4 from France.
Those of Ghanaian and Senegalese origin, come half by half from their own country or from other Spanish municipalities.
The Moroccan citizens move to Lorca mainly from their country (51.5%), being also very numerous those who do it from other Spanish municipalities (47.7%), although, not very significantly, they also come from France, Italy and Germany.
For admissions from abroad, it should be noted that 38 percent come from Morocco, more than 11 percent from Romania and Ecuador and between 2.5% - 5% come from Nicaragua, Ghana, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia and the United Kingdom. United.
Administrative movements of the population
There is also a series of high and low administratively processed as a result of low or default records corresponding to those casualties produced.
The additions due to omission are the result of highs after an administrative downturn and during the January-October period more than 400 have been counted, which mostly correspond to foreign citizens, reaching 88.2 percent.
The losses that are made due to improper inclusion or the expiration of the registration forms have reached the figure of 767, a number that can increase once the hundreds of open and not yet completed files are completed.
The greater part, 79.40 percent, corresponds to ex officio dismissal files after a report of an interested party or because of "non-confirmation of residence" of foreigners with authorization of permanent residence or of the European Union.
Of these administrative losses 30 percent corresponds to Moroccan citizens, while Romanians and Ecuadorians exceed 18 percent and another series of countries such as Bolivia and Ghana reach 4 percent.
Natural movement of the population
With respect to the natural movement of the population, the files included in the register show a figure of 475 deaths, mostly Spanish (97.7 percent).
The births meanwhile reach 754 of which most are Spanish (62.1 percent) and Moroccan (27.7 percent), followed very far by Ecuadorians who touch 5 percent and further away by Romanians and Ghanaians who do not reach 2 percent.
In addition to all these movements that affect the number of registered in the Register of Inhabitants, this record is extracted documents that constitute proof of address, certificates and registration flyers, which have already reached figures of more than 26,000 registration or coexistence leaflets and 3,000 certificates of any kind.
Other procedures are changes of address that greatly exceed the 4,300.
The procedures related to the foreign population are focused on the renewal of registration and residence confirmations, with whose obligation they must comply in periods of two years for the latter, having made more than 600 of the first and about 370 of the second.
The modifications that affect the personal data of residents in Lorca reach almost 2,000, consisting of the recording of identity cards and resident cards, modification of nationality, modification of school titles, or correction of errors on dates of birth or names and surnames.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca