Croca

Parish of the municipality of Penafiel (Penafiel), district of Porto.

Croca had 1.792 residents in the 2021 Census, 14,8% of whom were aged 65 or over, and 9,5% of the population aged 15 or over had completed higher education. It borders 5 parishes and its centroid is 8,7 km in a straight line from the centroid of the municipality of Penafiel.

Population (inh.)

823 – 1.364
1.459 – 1.579
1.682 – 1.954
2.100 – 2.584
2.780 – 15.676

Density (inh./km²)

72,8 – 175,1
218,6 – 278,4
301,0 – 323,2
326,0 – 481,3
525,3 – 696,1

Area (km²)

3,1 – 4,3
4,6 – 5,2
6,1 – 6,9
7,3 – 10,2
10,6 – 22,5

Quantile classes · current parish

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

The 28 parishes of Penafiel

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#	Parish	Population	Area (km²)	Inhab./km²
1	Abragão	2.311	9,53	242,5
2	Boelhe	1.532	5,09	301,0
3	Bustelo	1.682	6,86	245,2
4	Cabeça Santa	2.354	6,93	339,7
5	Canelas	1.579	11,82	133,6
6	Capela	964	13,25	72,8
7	Castelões	1.364	4,22	323,2
8	Croca	1.792	6,64	269,9
9	Duas Igrejas	2.255	8,10	278,4
10	Eja	863	4,93	175,1
11	Fonte Arcada	1.459	4,82	302,7
12	Galegos	2.584	4,57	565,4
13	Guilhufe e Urrô	3.845	7,32	525,3
14	Irivo	2.100	3,17	662,5
15	Lagares e Figueira	2.780	16,64	167,1
16	Luzim e Vila Cova	1.539	10,60	145,2
17	Oldrões	1.954	4,06	481,3
18	Paço de Sousa	3.838	8,60	446,3
19	Penafiel	15.676	22,52	696,1
20	Perozelo	1.317	3,99	330,1
21	Rans	1.804	3,05	591,5
22	Recezinhos (São Mamede)	1.364	4,25	320,9
23	Recezinhos (São Martinho)	1.708	5,24	326,0
24	Rio Mau	1.340	6,13	218,6
25	Rio de Moinhos	2.536	8,21	308,9
26	Sebolido	823	5,15	159,8
27	Termas de São Vicente	4.758	10,21	466,0
28	Valpedre	1.508	6,33	238,2

Code (DTMNFR): 131108
Resident population (2021): 1.792
Area: 6,64 km²
Density: 269,9 inh./km²
Share of the municipality (population): 2,6%
Rank in the municipality (population): 14th of 28

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: 898 (50,1%)
Women: 894 (49,9%)
Portuguese nationality: 1.777 (99,2%)
Foreign nationality: 13 (0,7%)
Stateless: 2 (0,1%)
Ageing index: 107,3 elderly per 100 young people
Private households: 650
Average household size *: 2,76 people
Dwellings: 795
Classic family dwellings: 795
Buildings: 656
Buildings with 7 or more floors: 0
With higher education (15+): 9,5% (146)
Unemployment rate *: 7,60% (H 5,01% · M 10,57%)
Active / employed population: 934 / 863

Population by age group

Residents by age group and share of the total (1.792).

Age group	Total	Men	Women
0-14 years	248	137	111
15-24 years	229	122	107
25-64 years	1.049	519	530
65+ years	266	120	146

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

Penafiel · Recezinhos (São Martinho) · Vila Boa de Quires e Maureles (Marco de Canaveses) · Bustelo · Meinedo (Lousada)

Straight-line distance to the centroid of the municipality of Penafiel: 8,7 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: 1.578
Voters: 1.111
Turnout: 70,41% (2021: 66,86%)
Seats: 9

List	Votes	%	Seats
JPC Juntos Por Croca	747	67,24%	7
PS Partido Socialista	306	27,54%	2
PCP-PEV CDU - Coligação Democrática Unitária	27	2,43%	0
Blank votes	14	1,26%
Null votes	17	1,53%

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

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 da Igreja n.º 919
Croca (PENAFIEL)
4560-064 CROCA
Telephone: 255214324
Fax: 255720764
Email: freguesiadecroca@sapo.pt
Website: www.juntadefreguesiadecroca.comunidades.net

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

More information

Coordinates: 41,21952, -8,23570
Wikipedia: Croca
Wikidata: Q994611

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 45 schools in the municipality of Penafiel. The source names the municipality, not the parish.

Showing 15 of 45.

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

Instituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte - CESPU - Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Tâmega e Sousa — Ensino Superior Privado - Politécnico · Rua Direita, 5 4560-485
Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro — Ensino Superior Privado - Politécnico · Rua Vitorino da Costa, nº 96 4560-708 · 255318550;255318555

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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

No NHS institution with this municipality in the official name. See the national list in the catalogue.

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

AMA service points in the municipality (rows linked to this parish first when the locality matches):

Espaço Cidadão de Croca — Horário: 2ª a 6ª das 09:00 às 12:30 e das 13:30 às 17:00 · Junta de freguesia de Croca -Rua da Igreja, 919 4560 - 064 Penafiel 4560 - 064
Espaço Cidadão de Termas São Vicente — Horário: 2ª a 6ª das 09:00 às 12:30 e das 13:30 às 17:00; Localidade na fonte: Termas de S, Vicente · Alameda Dona Rosa Branca Archer Nº129 4575-367 Penafiel 4575-367

There are 12 in the municipality in total.

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Source: AMA / dados.gov.pt (CC BY).

Climate

1991–2020 climate normals for the station Luzim (IPMA no. 657), 8,0 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	7,3	11,0	3,6	196,0
Feb	8,5	12,8	4,1	129,3
Mar	11,0	15,7	6,3	133,2
Apr	12,4	17,3	7,6	134,2
May	15,3	20,5	10,1	93,5
Jun	18,3	24,1	12,6	37,6
Jul	20,4	26,7	14,1	15,3
Aug	20,7	27,0	14,5	29,7
Sep	18,7	24,6	12,8	72,6
Oct	15,0	19,7	10,3	162,6
Nov	10,3	14,2	6,5	183,4
Dec	8,0	11,6	4,5	194,2
Year	13,8	—	—	1.381,6

Source: IPMA, ficha da normal climatológica, período 1991-2020. Climate region: Entre Douro e Minho e Beira Litoral. Station altitude: 287,2 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 Penafiel the median value in 2025 is 5,60 €/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: 4560-064 (Rua da Igreja n.º 919, Croca (PENAFIEL), 4560-064 CROCA).

Geographic telephone code of the district/region seat (Porto): 22. It is not exclusive to this parish.

We do not republish the full CTT postcode database. The parish council telephone is 255214324.

Public bodies

Junta de Croca — Rua da Igreja n.º 919, Croca (PENAFIEL), 4560-064 CROCA · 4560-064 · 255214324 · [email protected] · http://www.juntadefreguesiadecroca.comunidades.net

Câmara Municipal de Penafiel — Presidente: Pedro Miguel Santana Cepeda · Praça do Município, 4564-002 Penafiel · 4564-002 · 255710700 · [email protected] · https://www.cm-penafiel.pt

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

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