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Gandia, 26 January 2026.— Chair of Territory Thinking Joan Noguera (Universitat de València — City Council of Gandia) has published a new number for its three-month newsletter from the Territory Observatory of Gandia, a reference publication offering the updated and precise analysis on the main social, economical and territorial challenges of the city.
This edition compiles and analyses recent data from official and municipal sources in order to support strategic planning, public decision-making and educated debate on the future of Gandia, according to the 2030 Agenda principles and the New Urban Agenda.
Gandia and dependency: a growing challenge for well-being
The first block of this newsletter revolves around the evolution of attention to dependency in Gandia, a key area of well-being. According to the data from the Social Service Council, 2024 registered 890 applications for the System for Autonomy and Dependency Attention (SAAD), almost twice as many as the maximum recorded during the autonomical management era, making evident the impact of municipal management since 2017.
The report highlights that 81.2 % of applications come from people over 65 years old and 7 out 10 applicants are over 75 years old, which confirms that progressive aging of population is one of the main social challenges of the city. In 2024, 694 valuation were solved, with more that 57 % of them corresponding to severe dependency (grades 2 and 3).
Historical maximums for tourism: over 207 000 visitors in summer 2025.
The second block analyses the evolution of recent tourism, one of Gandia’s economic pillars. The newsletter points out how during July and August 2025, the city received 207 199 tourists, the highest number between 2019 and 2025, a 3.9 % increase in comparison to 2024 and 11 % to 2019.
One of the most relevant data is the change in temporary distribution of demand, since for the first time, July welcomed 63 % of the summer tourists, in comparison to the 37 % in August. which demonstrates the progressive deseasoning of tourism. International tourism keeps growing and represents a total 10.5 %, with France as the main origin, followed by United Kingdom and Germany.
Gandia, a green city: over 2.2 million m2 in parks and green areas
The third addresses the territory and environmental analysis of the city, focused on the parks and green areas network. This report concludes that Gandia currently has 1 516 785 m2 of high quality primary network parks, wich make a 18.24 m2 ratio per inhabitant, a lot above of the minimum demanded by Valencian urbanistic regulation.
Incorporating the green areas secondary network, the city reacher a total of 2 239 258 m2 in green spaces, with a global 8.69 m2 of green area per inhabitant, confirming that Gandia complies with the urban and environmental quality standards. However, the newsletter detects some urban areas with particular lackings, reminding the importance of strategic projects like Anella Verda, currently in urbanistic administrative process.
A tool at the territory’s service
The newsletter from the Territory Observatory is aimed for public responisbles, technical staff, social and economical agents, the academic community, and citizen, and serves as an instrument of reference to understand the evolution of Gandia from an integral perspective based on data.
The full bulletin is available and downloadable on the Chair official website.
