Living in Mislata: rent, metro and schools next to Valencia

Metro: two stations, three lines, one fare overlap

Mislata has two Metrovalencia stations inside its boundary, Mislata and Mislata-Almassil, and trains of lines 3, 5 and 9 stop at both. Line 3 opened here in 1999 along the old railway alignment, which now runs underground beneath Avenida de Gregorio Gea.

Heading into the city, the next stops are Nou d'Octubre, Avinguda del Cid, Àngel Guimerà and Xàtiva. That puts Colón five stops from Mislata on line 3, without a car and without a transfer.

Both stations are in the A-B fare overlap on the Metrovalencia route diagram, so a trip into the city is not billed as a full two-zone journey from a zone B town. Fares change, so check the current price on ATMV's page before you budget a commute.

Buses fill the gaps. A Fernanbús line runs between Mislata and the Mercat Central in Valencia, MetroBus lines link the town with Quart de Poblet, Manises, Aldaia and Alaquàs, and the council runs a public bike-hire service, Bicim. By car the V-30 is beside the town, and the city's low emission zone rules apply once you drive in.

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Renting in Mislata: cheaper than the city

Fotocasa splits the town into four zones, but three of them repeat the whole-town row exactly, so the zone figures add nothing here. Most of the rental stock is apartment blocks, so whether a flat has a lift matters more than which street it is on.

Buying in Mislata: about three quarters of the city's price per square metre

Fotocasa's sale index reads 2,610 EUR per square metre for Mislata in September 2026, against 3,352 EUR for the city of Valencia. That is about 78 per cent of the city's level, and the Mislata index is up 13.5 per cent on a year earlier.

Inside the town the zones differ more than the rent index suggests. Fotocasa shows 2,291 EUR per square metre in the Juzgados zone and 2,900 EUR in La Constitució-Canaleta. Both are thin samples, so use them to compare streets, not to price a flat.

Rent and sale prices both sit at roughly three quarters of the city's, so the case for Mislata is much the same for a tenant and an owner: a metro station and a city-side address at a lower price per square metre.

The densest town in Spain: what it means day to day

Mislata's 47,079 residents live in about two square kilometres. Few municipalities in Spain are denser, and the town has grown by about nine per cent since 2014.

In practice that means apartment blocks, little space between them and a town you can cross on foot in minutes. Check where the nearest green space is before you sign, and visit at the hours you would actually be home.

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Schools in Mislata

The council's own directory lists seven state primary schools (Mestre Serrano, L'Almassil, Jaume I, Gregorio Mayans, El Cid, Ausiàs March and Amadeo Tortajada) and three state secondary schools (IES Músic Martín i Soler, IES Molí del Sol and IES La Morería).

It also lists Colegio Santa Cruz and Colegio Sagrado Corazón, which carry no public label, and a vocational training centre, CIPFP Mislata. Check each school's status in the Generalitat's directory before you count on a place.

The council's list names no international school, but it is a list of local services, not a register of private provision. For an international curriculum, our guide to international schools in Valencia covers the options within reach, and our state school guide explains how admission works.

Market, fiestas and the Creu Coberta

Mislata has a weekly Saturday street market, which the council regulates through its own permits for traders. The council also lists a municipal library, the Carmen Alborch cultural centre and La Fàbrica sociocultural centre.

The patron-saint fiestas fall in the last third of August and are organised with the town's two clavarías, the brotherhoods of the Virgin of the Angels and of the Holy Christ of Faith. In 2026 the council's programme ran from 20 August to 5 September and included a giant paella, a Moorish procession and daytime firecracker displays.

The Creu Coberta, the covered cross, is the town's best-known monument. Its stone arches and central column are worth a short detour if you are in the area.

Who Mislata suits

It suits people who want a metro station close to home and a short ride to Colón without paying city rents, and buyers who want a flat beside the city at a lower price per square metre.

It suits you less if you want space, a garden or quiet streets. For more room outside the city compare Paterna or Torrent, and on the city side compare L'Olivereta, Campanar and Patraix.

Registering and paperwork in Mislata

Your padrón (play_arrow) registration is made at the town's ajuntament (play_arrow), in Plaça de la Constitució 8, and the certificate names Mislata even though the streets look continuous with the city.

Your IBI and local taxes are set by Mislata's council, not Valencia's. Our empadronamiento guide covers the registration itself, and the NIE and residency paperwork are national.