Madrid (EFE) type of heating, mainly electricity is used.
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) corresponding to 2021, in Spain eight out of ten households have some type of heating at home, a proportion that, logically, rises in communities where it is colder: up to 97.9% in Navarra, 96.8% in La Rioja, more than 96% also in Castilla y León, Madrid and Aragón, 95.8% in the Basque Country and 93.2% in Asturias, with Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia and Catalonia equally above average.
There are localities -among those with more than 50,000 inhabitants and provincial capitals that the INE collects- in cold areas or with very high incomes where there are practically no homes without heating, such as Burgos (0.3%), Ávila (0.5% ), Pamplona (0.6%), Vitoria (0.6%), Soria (0.7%) or the Madrid municipalities of Pozuelo de Alarcón (0.4%), Las Rozas (0.6%) and Boadilla del Monte (1%).
On the contrary, in the Canary Islands 86.6% of homes do not have any type of heating at home and, already a long way away, in Extremadura 32.8% of homes do not have it, in Andalusia 31.3, slightly less than 28% in Murcia and the Valencian Community and just over 26% in the Balearic Islands, in addition to 69.8% in Ceuta and 51.3% in Melilla.
In total, there are 3.65 million homes -of the 18.81 that exist in Spain- that go without heating these days of intense cold in almost the entire country, of which more than a million are Andalusian, close to 750,000 canaries , more than 560,000 Valencians and more than 410,000 Catalans.
Natural gas, predominant in Madrid and the north
Among the households that do have some type of heating, natural gas is predominant in Madrid (69.3%) and throughout the north of the peninsula, except Galicia -which has the most varied heating energy mix in the entire country-: Country Basque (66%), La Rioja (60.3%), Navarra (60%), Catalonia (56.9%), Cantabria (56.1%), Aragon (51.1%), Asturias (48.7 %) and Castilla y León (43.3%).
Electricity is absolutely widespread in Melilla (93.3%) and Ceuta (89.8%) and is also in the majority in the rest of warmer Spain: the Canary Islands (77.1%), Andalusia (74.5%), Murcia (67%), the Valencian Community (61.2%), the Balearic Islands (57.9%) and Extremadura (44.8%).
Petroleum derivatives, such as diesel, are the most widely used heating fuel in Castilla-La Mancha (33.8%) and Galicia (29.3%) and are also abundant in Castilla y León (32.7%) , Aragon (27.4%), La Rioja (26.8%) and Navarra (24.6%).
Individual heating wins over collective
On the other hand, the majority of the 80% of Spanish homes that have heating are heated with individual installations, 62.5%, while 26.3% only have some device that allows heating a room and only 11.2 % are collective facilities.
Individuals are the majority in 11 of the 17 communities: 81.1% in Cantabria, 77.4% in both Castillas, 75.6% in Catalonia, 73.9% in La Rioja, more than 72% in the Basque Country and Madrid, more than 71% in Asturias and Navarra, 68.7% in Galicia and 66.7% in Aragon.
The collective ones only exceed 25% of the total homes with heating in Aragon and Navarra and 20% in La Rioja and Madrid; and the use of heating devices for some rooms is the majority in the southern communities and in the archipelagos: Canarias (81.3%), Andalucía (63.4%), the Valencian Community (49.2%), Murcia (48 7%), the Balearic Islands (48.6%) and Extremadura (47.1%), as well as Ceuta (78%) and Melilla (46.5%).
