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A survey conducted for 24 companies of the TechPark, representing 33% of the workforce, highlights that 92% of the workers live in the province of Malaga
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The survey showed that 33% of workers live in the Costa del Sol Occidental, Costa del Sol Oriental or Valle del Guadalhorce.
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Malaga TechPark becomes an essential element of dynamization for innovation development in the province.
Malaga TechPark has gathered information about the workers of the different companies in the park in order to establish their main place of residence.
The results come from a survey conducted in January and February of 2023, and it was addressed to 24 companies of the technopolis that employ 8,068 people, representing a third (33%) of the total employment in Malaga TechPark (24,400 people).
Several types of companies have been considered for the survey, including major multinational companies, local SMEs, start-ups and newly established foreign companies.
Among the main conclusions of this study, it is shown that the vast majority of Malaga TechPark employees live in the province of Malaga, more specifically 92% of them.
Of the remaining 8%, 7% lives in other Andalusian provinces, where employees of a high number of companies live in the bordering provinces of Granada and Cadiz, and only 1% lives outside Andalusia, mostly in Madrid.
Within the province of Malaga, 59% of workers live in the capital, where there is an important distribution between different areas. The city centre district stands out, as it hosts 13% of total employees. The remaining are distributed in a very similar way among other districts of the city (Teatinos-Universidad, 10%; and Carretera de Cadiz, 9%).
The remaining 33% is distributed between the Costa del Sol Occidental (hosting 12% of the employees), the Valle del Guadalhorce region (10%) and the Costa del Sol Oriental (9%). Compared to previous years, there is an upward trend in the number of people living in other regions of the Malaga province rather than in the capital.
Malaga TechPark: a space of attraction for innovation development
With these results, the park is conceived as a space of attraction for innovation development, collaborating to make the city and the province of Malaga a global city, and becoming a real hub of knowledge and relations that projects innovation. This plays a proactive and cooperative role in Malaga TechPark consolidation.
A park used as a tool for economic development and talent and business attraction in the global economy framework; a park that is based on the principles of sustainability and energy efficiency improvements, that contributes to curb climate change and has sustainable development goals.
In order to do so, it is necessary to extend the existing spaces and develop new infrastructure, as well as to enhance the efficiency of current spaces by incorporating sustainable elements and developing new spaces that meet the demands of companies whose area of work is the digital economy.
Transport to Malaga TechPark:
In view of the problems aforementioned, and taking into account the current figures and the expected growth of the park in the coming years, it is necessary to develop a new direct access through Campanillas to the northern extension of Malaga TechPark, essential to improve accesses to the park in the coming years.
Moreover, it is important to enhance public transport, as the Metro and the Commuter train now arrive at the park, as well as to increase EMT buses frequency and routes that arrive at Malaga TechPark from the different areas of the city where the technopolis’ workers live.