Russian immigrants across Lisbon: no public source ranks the districts — only one national figure, 10,901, exists

Asked:

“What are Lisbon districts with the most population of russian immigrants? What are the most popular, what are the most unpopular?”

A live web scan on 2026-09-01 reviewed 93 pages — search results, official statistics portals and open-data catalogs. It found parish-level census geography and a national count of Russian citizens, but no verified Russian-resident count for any Lisbon parish, municipality or metropolitan area unit. “Most popular” and “most unpopular” are therefore unresolved, not zero.

Why the question cannot be answered yet: every geography × every definition is unresolved

unresolved — no verified local count found in the scan the only verified figure — national, cannot rank Lisbon places

Findings

The only explicit current figure found is 10,901 Russian citizens resident in Portugal in 2024 (up from 4,260 in 2016) — a national total, not a Lisbon-area count. kiwix.enszfarms.org

SEFSTAT, the official foreign-resident portal, exposes a district page but no municipality- or parish-level Russian rows in its searchable form. sefstat.sef.pt

INE Census 2021 sources confirm Lisbon city's 24 civil parishes and ~210,000 census subsections exist as geography — but the indexed pages expose no Russia-specific local rows. ine.pt

Portugal granted 51,232 temporary-protection permits after Russia's invasion of Ukraine — a different population (mostly Ukrainian nationals) that must not be conflated with Russian residents. portugalresident.com

Expat neighbourhood guides describe where foreigners in general live; none carries Russian-specific counts, so no defensible ranking can be inferred from them. everycity.guide

How to get a real ranking

Retrieve an AIMA/SEF municipality-by-nationality export for one chosen year, or request a custom INE Census tabulation of nationality for Lisbon's 24 civil parishes.
Fix one geography (parishes, district municipalities, or the 18 metropolitan municipalities) and one population definition before ranking.
Rank the counts, suppressing or flagging confidential small cells, and state the metric that defines “popular” (absolute count, share of residents, or growth).

Key sources checked

Source	What it showed	Link
SEFSTAT – Portal de Estatística	Official SEF/AIMA foreign-resident portal; district page found, but no municipality/parish Russian rows exposed in the searchable page	sefstat.sef.pt
Statistics Portugal (INE) indicator page	INE resident-population indicator; no Russia-specific local rows in the indexed content	ine.pt
dados.gov.pt – população residente	Open-data catalog landing page; resident population, not nationality by parish	dados.gov.pt
Census 2021 BGRI geopackage (INE)	Finest official census geography (~210,000 subsections); confirms parish-level sources exist, no Russia rows exposed	ine.pt
Census 2021 by subsection (BGRI) – Icon Map	Census 2021 joined to BGRI subsections; establishes geography, not nationality counts	icon-map.com
Observatório da Emigração – nationality tables	Resident population by nationality, 2021/2016/2011 — national scope only	observatorioemigracao.pt
Wikipedia mirror – Immigration to Portugal	The one explicit current figure: 10,901 Russian citizens in Portugal, 2024 (national, not Lisbon)	kiwix.enszfarms.org
Aldeias Portuguesas – Lisboa parish data	Confirms Lisbon city's 24 civil parishes with Census 2021 totals; no nationality breakdown	aldeiasportuguesas.pt
AML – Lisbon Metropolitan Area municipalities	Confirms the 18 municipalities of the metropolitan area	aml.pt
Expat guide – best Lisbon neighbourhoods	Qualitative relocation guide; no Russian-specific counts — excluded from any ranking	everycity.guide
Portugal Resident – temporary protection permits	51,232 temporary-protection permits after Russia's invasion of Ukraine — mostly Ukrainians, a different population	portugalresident.com

Method: source audit of a live public-web scan dated 2026-09-01 — 93 pages across three result sets (50 qualitative/location search results, 40 official/statistical source candidates, 3 official open-data landing pages), using Portuguese and English queries over official agencies, municipal pages, open-data catalogs, demographic databases, academic sources and news/relocation sources. A cell in the matrix marks whether a verified count for that geography × definition pair was found; only the national 2024 Russian-citizen figure was. Pages with no relevant evidence were cut for space.

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