The number of foreign workers in the Valencian Community in March amounts to 312,141, which represents a percentage of 14.7%, according to data provided by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
Of this total of people from other countries, a total of 25,821 are affiliated with the agrarian regime, while 13,408 are affiliated with the special home system.
In Spain, this figure marked a historical maximum in March with 2,734,119 contributors from other countries, 13.1% of total employment that is distributed unequally by territory, with up to 20.5% in the Balearic Islands for only 4 % in Extremadura.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, the differences are even greater by province, with four Andalusian provinces at both extremes: Huelva (25.2%) and Almería (24.6%) above and Jaén (3.3%) and Córdoba (3.5%) below.
The majority of foreigners who work as employees in Spain – more than two-thirds from non-EU countries, led by Moroccans, Colombians and Venezuelans – have established their residence in the most populated communities.
Thus, around 642,000 (23.5% of the national total) live in Catalonia; more than 569,000 (20.8%), in Madrid; just over 353,000 (12.9%), in Andalusia; and above 312,000 (11.4%), in the Valencian Community, figures that will grow if the popular legislative initiative for the extraordinary regularisation of immigrants accepted this month by Congress is successful.
The weight they represent in each territory with respect to the group of workers is substantially different and, broadly speaking, it is greater in provinces on the Mediterranean coast and around Madrid and less in almost all the rest of the interior and northwest of the peninsula.
Thus, in addition to the aforementioned Balearic Islands, Huelva and Almería, the highest percentages are found in Catalonia (17.2% of its workforce are foreign citizens), Murcia (15.9%) and Madrid (15.5%) among the communities and in Lleida (20.8%), Girona (19.9%) and Huesca (17.7%) among the provinces.
On the opposite side, in addition to Extremadura, Jaén and Córdoba, the lowest percentages are located in Asturias (5.6%), Galicia (5.7%) and Cantabria (7.3%) among the communities and in Badajoz (3.8%), Cádiz (4%) and Cáceres (4.5%) among the provinces.
