European aid for tomato production and the employment generated by tourism in the south of Gran Canaria has not been of any use. Santa Lucía de Tirajana does not raise its head in the ranking of the municipalities with more than 50.000 inhabitants with the least wealth in Spain as confirmed by the data offered by the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea) to Maspalomas24H this Monday.
The report details aspects such as the number of personal income tax filers), information on the municipality's personal income (aggregate taxable income, average income per capita and per personal income tax filer, median income), measures of inequality or structure of the distribution of local personal income. among 1.207 municipalities (with more than 5.000 inhabitants) with microdata from the Annual Samples of Personal Income Tax Filers carried out by the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) and disseminated by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IEF).
And, in that context, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, which at the time was considered the labor lung of tourism in Gran Canaria at the same time as operated with tomatoes, is part of the unpleasant ranking of the ten municipalities with the lowest average income in Spain along with four in Andalusia such as El Ejido, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Utrera or Motril.
While El Ejido leads severe poverty with an average income per household of 13.066 euros, Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) with 13.587 euros emerges in third place behind Santa Lucía de Tirajana 14.246 euros just before Arona, the tourism engine of Tenerife, with 14.275 euros. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is ranked in all this as the seventh richest municipality in Spain, although we must not forget that part of that money comes from San Bartolomé de Tirajana, which continues to be the economic capital of the Canary Islands.
