Five kilometres behind the famous port lies the town that gives it its name: a Mallorcan country town in a valley basin, with the Serra de Tramuntana at its back — and prices not dictated by the water.
Source: INE, Padrón Continuo · 2026-08-22
Say “Andratx” and most people mean the port. The town itself — five kilometres inland in a valley basin — is something else: a historic Mallorcan country town where the municipality lives its everyday life, while the coast holds its shop window. For buyers, that difference is the most useful information on this page.
Andratx sits at the southwestern end of the Serra de Tramuntana, whose cultural landscape has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011 — the mountains stand literally at the back of every lane. Above the town presides Son Mas, a manor house on the hill that today houses the town hall.
The Wednesday market fills the centre every week, and with CCA Andratx the town hosts one of the largest contemporary art centres in the Balearics — a town of this size with an art institution of that scale is the exception on the island.
The municipality includes Port d’Andratx, Camp de Mar, the village of S’Arracó and Sant Elm at the island’s westernmost point — together one of the most expensive stretches of coast in Mallorca.
The town of Andratx is the other half of that equation: townhouses with substance, hillside houses with Tramuntana views, fincas in the valleys towards S’Arracó — no sea view, but considerably more house for the same money, five minutes’ drive from the coast that gives the name its fame. If you are searching the southwest and the only thing you dislike about the port is the price, you should know the town.
The municipality of Andratx had 11,735 registered residents in 2022, against 11,919 in 2011 — a decline of two percent. The registered foreign population fell more sharply: from 4,178 (2011) to 3,012 today, around 28 percent. It is the same post-crisis trace as in most coastal municipalities — with the foreign share still at a good quarter, one of the island’s higher figures.
The figures come from the Padrón Continuo of the Spanish statistics office and count registered residents — second homes do not appear in them, and in this municipality especially they are a large part of the market. The statistics describe the municipality, not the market.
Andratx is the rare case of a town where three buyer groups search at once — our measurement shows English, Spanish and German demand almost level. That keeps the market liquid, but also fast: well-cut townhouses with outdoor space rarely stay on the market for long.
The second point is the World Heritage setting: anyone building or converting on the edge of town or in the valleys must reckon with the Tramuntana’s protection rules — what is permitted belongs before the purchase, not after it.
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Population figures are official, from the INE. Market observations are our own and are not statistics.
