Caranguejeira

Parish of the municipality of Leiria (Leiria), district of Leiria.

Caranguejeira had 4.331 residents in the 2021 Census, 26,4% of whom were aged 65 or over, and 12,4% of the population aged 15 or over had completed higher education. It borders 7 parishes and its centroid is 9,7 km in a straight line from the centroid of the municipality of Leiria.

Population (inh.)

1.026 – 2.027
2.174 – 2.829
3.552 – 4.156
4.331 – 5.542
7.535 – 34.644

Density (inh./km²)

33,1 – 111,0
121,0 – 143,2
154,4 – 185,2
188,2 – 207,6
212,9 – 799,5

Area (km²)

5,5 – 12,9
15,6 – 20,1
23,0 – 29,4
31,0 – 45,4
46,6 – 52,3

Quantile classes · current parish

Parish highlighted. Click a neighbouring parish to open its page. Geometry: CAOP2025, Direção-Geral do Território (simplified).

The 20 parishes of Leiria

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#	Parish	Population	Area (km²)	Inhab./km²
1	Amor	4.578	23,48	195,0
2	Arrabal	2.610	20,09	129,9
3	Bajouca	1.895	12,27	154,4
4	Bidoeira de Cima	2.236	15,61	143,2
5	Caranguejeira	4.331	30,99	139,8
6	Carreira	1.026	5,54	185,2
7	Coimbrão	1.726	52,19	33,1
8	Maceira	9.141	47,03	194,4
9	Milagres	2.829	17,35	163,1
10	Monte Redondo	4.156	45,37	91,6
11	Ortigosa	2.027	12,87	157,5
12	Regueira de Pontes	2.174	11,55	188,2
13	Souto da Carpalhosa	3.552	29,35	121,0
14	União das freguesias de Colmeias e Memória	3.746	46,57	80,4
15	União das freguesias de Leiria, Pousos, Barreira e Cortes	34.644	52,26	662,9
16	União das freguesias de Marrazes e Barosa	26.225	32,80	799,5
17	União das freguesias de Monte Real e Carvide	5.542	26,03	212,9
18	União das freguesias de Parceiros e Azoia	7.535	22,99	327,8
19	União das freguesias de Santa Catarina da Serra e Chainça	4.572	41,20	111,0
20	União das freguesias de Santa Eufémia e Boa Vista	4.058	19,55	207,6

Code (DTMNFR): 100907
Resident population (2021): 4.331
Area: 30,99 km²
Density: 139,8 inh./km²
Share of the municipality (population): 3,4%
Rank in the municipality (population): 8th of 20

INE, Censos 2021 (população residente por freguesia, geografia 2025, ind. 0014584); DGT, CAOP2025 (área). Population refers to the 2021 census moment, compiled by INE for the parish boundaries in force in 2025.

2021 Census in detail

Men: 2.119 (48,9%)
Women: 2.212 (51,1%)
Portuguese nationality: 4.219 (97,4%)
Foreign nationality: 112 (2,6%)
Ageing index: 227,2 elderly per 100 young people
Private households: 1.656
Average household size *: 2,58 people
Dwellings: 2.539
Classic family dwellings: 2.538
Buildings: 2.475
Buildings with 7 or more floors: 0
With higher education (15+): 12,4% (474)
Unemployment rate *: 3,26% (H 2,36% · M 4,27%)
Active / employed population: 2.022 / 1.956

Population by age group

Residents by age group and share of the total (4.331).

Age group	Total	Men	Women
0-14 years	504	250	254
15-24 years	491	258	233
25-64 years	2.191	1.089	1.102
65+ years	1.145	522	623

Source: INE, Censos 2021 — indicators 0014630, 0014631, 0014627, 0014623, 0014621, 0014635, 0014636, 0012481, 0012328, 0014632, obtained from the INE indicators API on 24/09/2026 (licence CC BY 4.0). Parish geography of 2025 (CAOP2025). Nationality (Portuguese, foreign, stateless) is INE indicator 0014632. * Indicator published by INE only for 2013 parish geography (NUTS 2024); used because the parish has the same territory in both geographies (identical population by sex and age group). Ageing index = population aged 65+ ÷ population aged 0–14 × 100; share with higher education = residents with completed higher education ÷ residents aged 15 or over (our calculations from INE figures).

Neighbouring parishes

Matas (Ourém) · União das freguesias de Colmeias e Memória · União das freguesias de Santa Eufémia e Boa Vista · Arrabal · Cercal (Ourém) · União das freguesias de Santa Catarina da Serra e Chainça · União das freguesias de Leiria, Pousos, Barreira e Cortes

Straight-line distance to the centroid of the municipality of Leiria: 9,7 km

Neighbourhood calculated from official boundaries: DGT, Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal (CAOP) 2025 (licence CC BY 4.0); two parishes are neighbours when they share a boundary segment. The distance is the straight-line (great-circle) distance between the geometric centroid of the parish and that of the municipality (in territories with islets, of the main part), not a road distance.

2025 local elections — Parish assembly

Registered voters: 4.254
Voters: 2.832
Turnout: 66,57% (2021: 60,68%)
Seats: 9

List	Votes	%	Seats
PS Partido Socialista	1.224	43,22%	4
PPD/PSD Partido Social Democrata	1.054	37,22%	4
CH CHEGA	285	10,06%	1
CDS-PP CDS - Partido Popular	177	6,25%	0
PCP-PEV CDU - Coligação Democrática Unitária	13	0,46%	0
Blank votes	46	1,62%
Null votes	33	1,17%

Most-voted list, which elects the parish-council president: PS.

Source: SGMAI — official results of the local elections of 12 October 2025 (Secretary-General of the Ministry of Internal Administration), consulted on 25/09/2026. Percentages calculated by SGMAI over total voters.

Parish-council contacts

Address: Rua Comércio, N.º 54
Caranguejeira (LEIRIA)
2420-091 CARANGUEJEIRA
Telephone: 244734437
Email: jfcaranguejeira@gmail.com
Website: www.jfcaranguejeira.pt

Source: DGAL - Portal Autárquico (Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais), consulted on 25/09/2026.

More information

Coordinates: 39,74500, -8,70110
Wikipedia: Caranguejeira (Leiria)
Wikidata: Q1035405

Source: Wikidata (data under CC0 1.0), consulted on 24/09/2026. The patron saint and coordinates are those recorded on Wikidata.

Services and territory

Education · Emergencies · Health · Fire services · Citizen desks · Climate · Rents · Codes · Bodies

Education

Infoescolas 2020 (DGEEC) lists 83 schools in the municipality of Leiria. The source names the municipality, not the parish.

Showing 15 of 83.

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4 higher-education units (universities and polytechnics, DGEEC) with an address in this municipality:

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria — Ensino Superior Público - Politécnico · Rua General Norton de Matos, Apartado 4133 2411-901
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais — Ensino Superior Público - Politécnico · Rua Dr. João Soares, Apartado 4045 2411-901
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - Escola Superior de Saúde de Leiria — Ensino Superior Público - Politécnico · Morro do Lena - Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4137 2411-901
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão — Ensino Superior Público - Politécnico · Morro do Lena - Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4163 2411-901

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Bank branches are left out: there is no republishable national open list. NHS hospitals appear below when the official name includes the municipality. Fire services exist only for Lisbon (CML POI).

Emergency contacts

Linha SNS 24: 808 24 24 24
Número europeu de emergência: 112

National numbers, the same in every parish. Confirmado na página oficial de SNS 24. Source: SNS 24; INEM.

NHS hospitals

Unidade Local de Saúde da Região de Leiria, E.P.E. — Região de Saúde do Centro

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NHS institutions that report inpatient stays (ACSS). The source has no address or telephone; the link to the municipality is by official name.

Fire services

No fire stations in this municipality in the open list we republish. Only Lisbon publishes a usable POI (CC0); INE series are counts, not directories. See what exists in the catalogue.

Citizen shops and desks

No Citizen Shop or desk mapped in this municipality in the AMA list. See the national catalogue.

Climate

1991–2020 climate normals for the station São Pedro de Moel (IPMA no. 721), 28,1 km in a straight line from the geometric centre of the parish. Temperature and precipitation are those of the station.

Bars: precipitation (mm, left scale). Line: mean daily temperature (°C, right scale).

Month	Mean temp. (°C)	Maximum (°C)	Minimum (°C)	Precipitation (mm)
Jan	10,7	14,4	7,0	72,3
Feb	11,1	14,9	7,4	51,4
Mar	12,6	16,3	9,0	45,6
Apr	13,8	17,1	10,5	53,9
May	15,6	18,8	12,4	42,1
Jun	17,4	20,6	14,2	15,5
Jul	18,2	21,1	15,3	7,4
Aug	18,5	21,6	15,4	11,2
Sep	17,9	21,3	14,5	30,4
Oct	16,5	20,1	13,0	76,7
Nov	13,6	17,0	10,2	85,7
Dec	11,9	15,4	8,3	73,0
Year	14,8	—	—	565,1

Source: IPMA, ficha da normal climatológica, período 1991-2020. Climate region: Ribatejo e Oeste. Station altitude: 32,5 m. Distance calculated between the CAOP2025 centroid and the coordinates published by IPMA.

Rent and cost of living

INE does not publish the median rent for this parish (indicator 0014773, 2025 geography).

In the municipality of Leiria the median value in 2025 is 7,59 €/m². This figure is for the municipality.

The consumer price index is national, not by parish. Year-on-year change in Agosto de 2026: 3,3% (INE 0014648).

Source: INE, indicador 0014773 (CC BY 4.0), Local housing rent statistics, 2026 methodology. Reference year 2025. IPC: indicator 0014648.

Postcodes and telephone

Postcode of the parish-council address: 2420-091 (Rua Comércio, N.º 54, Caranguejeira (LEIRIA), 2420-091 CARANGUEJEIRA).

Geographic telephone code of the district/region seat (Leiria): 244. It is not exclusive to this parish.

We do not republish the full CTT postcode database. The parish council telephone is 244734437.

Public bodies

Junta de Caranguejeira — Rua Comércio, N.º 54, Caranguejeira (LEIRIA), 2420-091 CARANGUEJEIRA · 2420-091 · 244734437 · [email protected] · http://www.jfcaranguejeira.pt

Câmara Municipal de Leiria — Presidente: Gonçalo Nuno Bértolo Gordalina Lopes · Largo da República, 2414-006 Leiria · 2414-006 · 244839500 · [email protected] · https://www.cm-leiria.pt

Other parish councils of the municipality in the catalogue · Catalogue filtered by Leiria

Sources: INE, 2021 Census (resident population) · DGT, CAOP2025 (area and parishes) · more details · Data updated on 24/09/2026