Postal Codes

8500-661 Postcode

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Postal code 8500-661 covers Portimão, Faro. A Portuguese postal code is four digits, a hyphen and three more. INE publishes census results by freguesia (parish), which is finer than the municipality, so the figures below describe the parish or municipality this code falls in rather than the code itself.

Area
Portimão
Residents
49,218
Population density
650.5 /km²
Completed at least secondary school
49.93%
Municipality
Portimão
Population by age
MenWomen0 to 1415 to 2425 to 6465 and over

Where 8500-661 is

Portimão, Faro — the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

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People
Residents49,218
Men23,552
Women25,666
Aged under 1514.5%
Aged 65 and over21.6%
Ageing index149.5
Population change, 2011 to 20218.34%
Population density650.5 /km²
Work and education
Economically active, of all residents46.63%
In work, of residents aged 15 and over47%
Completed at least secondary school49.93%
Illiteracy rate2.48%
Where this code is
AreaPortimão
MunicipalityPortimão
DistrictFaro

Figures from INE's Censos 2021, joined by the official DICOFRE code the postal file carries. Where a postal code names a parish INE still recognises they describe that freguesia; Portugal merged its parishes in 2013, so for the rest they describe the concelho, and the table says which.

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