Alcorcón

A drovers' road and a trade

According to the Town Council, the first medieval document to mention Alcorcón dates from 1208 and speaks of the "Cañada de Alcorcón", a livestock route and boundary of the Council of Madrid. In 1222 Ferdinand III included it in the sexmo of Aravaca, within the Común de Villa y Tierra de Madrid, and in 1576 Philip II's Relaciones topográficas describe about 140 houses and some 170 inhabitants.

Potters since the 16th century

Pottery is documented from the 16th century, and the Ensenada cadastre (1751–1754) lists 54 potters who worked as day labourers alongside farm work. According to the municipal text, it lasted into the 19th century and went into decline in the 1960s. The Navalcarnero railway arrived in 1890.

From 3,356 to over 170,000 inhabitants

After the Civil War, urban plans gave Alcorcón a residential role within a satellite-city plan to relieve Madrid. In 1960 it had 3,356 inhabitants and 800 homes; in 1970, 46,073; in 1980, 140,957; and in 2023, 171,772 according to INE. In April 2005 it was officially classified as a large city.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 13th of the 32 municipalities analysed by median closing price.
• It is a municipal median: compare homes in the same neighbourhood and of the same type.

Source for the historical context: Alcorcón Town Council (history of the city).

Data and statistics

Alcorcón is a municipality in the Community of Madrid. According to the Community of Madrid's statistical tables, it covers 33.6 km² and lies 18.1 km by road from the capital. The INE's official population figures give 175,719 registered inhabitants for 2025.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the municipality of Alcorcón was €3,257/m². Since January (€3,026/m²), the figure rose in 4 of the 6 months that can be compared with the previous one, without a steady climb.

Among the 2026 figures published, the highest is June (€3,300/m²) and the lowest, January (€3,026/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +14.6% and a year-to-date change of +7.6%, with €2,843/m² in July 2025 as the prior-year starting point. They compare medians of different transactions in each period, not the change in value of the same home.

For reference, the July figure is below the one published for the province as a whole (€3,618/m²). These are medians for each area, not averages of the areas they contain.

This guide describes the figure for the area, not an individual home: valuing a property requires comparing similar homes. The report does not say how many transactions underlie each territorial median.

Territorial context: Community of Madrid and National Statistics Institute (INE) (land area of the municipalities (Regional Geographic Information Centre, Community of Madrid); road distance to the capital (Directorate-General for Economy and Industry, Community of Madrid); official population figures, Madrid: population by municipality and sex (INE)), accessed 2 November 2026. Official information, separate from the Huspy statistics.

Source of the statistics: Huspy Market Insights · Madrid, October 2026 edition. Completed sales, median in €/m²; not asking or rental prices. The edition date is not the data date.