How Much a Family of 4 Spends Per Month in Spain: the Official INE Figure (and Why Yours Is Different)
You search for how much a family of four spends per month, and you find everything except a reliable answer: one forum says 2,200 euros, a blog says 3,200, an expat real-estate site gives a figure built for a different cost of living. None of them cite a source, and the numbers that repeat the most look like they came out of a bar conversation.
There is an official figure. Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) publishes it every year with a survey built exactly for this, and almost nobody uses it because it’s buried in a technical table. It won’t hand you your number as-is either, though: a national average isn’t your figure, and this article covers why, plus how to work out your own.