Coverage
Elche, the coast, and two neighbours
All of Elche and its pedanías, the coast from El Altet down to La Marina, Santa Pola including Gran Alacant, and Crevillente. Below is what a locksmith actually runs into in each of them, which is more useful than a list of names.
The city
The four zones of the urban core and the barrios inside them.
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Centre and La Vila
The old walled quarter and the streets around the basilica, most of it pedestrianised. The van stops at the edge and the tools come the rest of the way on foot, so tell us the nearest street a vehicle can reach. Older timber doors and long-serving locks that reward patience over force.
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Carrús
Two of the city's six districts and its most densely built area, grown quickly in the 1950s and again between 1990 and 2010. Communal street doors take heavy daily use, and a stiff key here is usually a cylinder that has simply done its years.
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Altabix
The expansion east of the historic palm grove, and the part of the city that gained most population in the last property boom. Modern blocks with multipoint doors, communal garages and entryphone panels — when one of these doors starts needing a shove before the key turns, it has dropped on its hinges.
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El Pla
West of the Vinalopó, between the riverbed and the old railway lines. Mixed stock of mid-century blocks and houses. The river splits the city and crossings are limited, which is worth knowing when you are describing where you are.
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El Toscar and Los Palmerales
Residential blocks south and east of the centre, many with shared entrances and storerooms. Storeroom and meter-cupboard locks are neglected until the day they matter.
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San Antón and Travalón
Older residential streets on the western side. Ground-floor flats and street-level doors, where an extra deadbolt is often a better spend than a whole new door.
The coast
Nine kilometres of seafront, and most of the second-home stock.
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Los Arenales del Sol
A second-home town of 1.3 km² whose registered population has quadrupled since the mid-1990s and where around a fifth of residents are foreign, many of them retired. Apartments and town houses that stand shut for months, and windblown sand off the beach that finds its way into anything left unused.
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El Altet
The village on the airport side of the coast road. A lot of holiday lets and arrivals at odd hours, which is why so many of the calls from here come in late at night.
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La Marina
Beach and pine woodland at the southern end of the Elche coast, backing onto the dune belt. Holiday stock and low-rise housing, exposed to the same salt air as the rest of the seafront.
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El Carabassí and Balsares
High dunes, fossil dunes and pine woods between Arenales and the airport. Properties here sit right against the sand, and cylinders show it.
The Camp d’Elx
The farming partidas, where an address is often less use than a map pin.
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Torrellano
Village, industrial estate and the edge of the airport in one place. Housing, workshops and units, so the work here swings between a flat door at midnight and a roller shutter at seven in the morning.
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Matola, Valverde and Las Bayas
Farming partidas spread across the Camp d'Elx. Properties often have no usable street number, so a dropped map pin gets us there far faster than an address does.
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Algoda, Perleta, Daimés and Atzavares
Scattered country properties among the irrigated land. Gates, outbuildings and garden doors as often as the house itself.
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La Hoya, Jubalcoy and El Derramador
The band between the city edge and open country: detached houses, plot gates and the odd communal access road.
Where Elche works
Estates, units and the airport, which is inside this municipality.
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Elche Parque Empresarial
Over a million square metres between the Saladas and Torrellano partidas, holding a reported 49% of the municipality's employment. Units, offices and loading doors, where a lock that fails at opening time costs a shift.
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Polígonos de Carrús and Altabix
The older industrial belt inside the city, much of it footwear workshops. Metal personnel doors and roller shutters that get used hard and serviced rarely.
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Alicante–Elche airport
The airport is inside the Elche municipal boundary, between El Altet and Torrellano, and handled 18.4 million passengers in 2024. Car hire desks are in the terminal, and keys shut inside a hire car in the car park is one of the calls we get most. Opening only — we do not supply or program car keys.
Just outside
Two neighbours we genuinely cover
Not a wish list. These are the places we reach often enough to quote honestly for.
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Santa Pola
Around 30,000 residents that comfortably triple in the tourist season. Apartment blocks near the port and the beaches, plus the holiday stock behind them.
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Gran Alacant
The urbanisations on the side of the cape, 2.5 km from Santa Pola town. Roughly 10,000 residents, the large majority foreign and mostly British, and a third of the whole municipality's population. Villas, bungalows and town houses, many of them second homes with a key holder rather than an owner on site.
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Crevillente
On Elche's western boundary at the foot of the sierra, about 31,000 residents, and part of the same metropolitan area. Town-centre housing and the carpet and textile industry that the town is known for.
Questions
Reaching an address around here
Is there a charge for coming out to the villages?
A run out into the Camp d’Elx is more mileage than a job in the centre, and where that applies we tell you the figure when you ring rather than adding it at the end. Inside the city there is no surprise to spring on you either way.
Do you cover Alicante city or the Vega Baja?
No, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. We work Elche and its pedanías, Santa Pola including Gran Alacant, and Crevillente. Staying inside an area we can actually reach quickly is the whole reason we can give you a realistic time on the phone.
My house is in the campo and has no street number.
Normal around Matola, Valverde, Las Bayas and the partidas generally. Drop a pin in your maps app and send it on WhatsApp. It is the single most useful thing you can do, and it removes the part of the journey where we are guessing at turnings.
How does the pedestrianised centre work for a call-out?
Most of the historic core is pedestrian, so the van stops at the edge and the tools come in on foot. It is routine. Telling us the nearest street a vehicle can reach saves real time, and during the August fiestas, when the centre is closed off, it matters a great deal more.
Is the airport in Elche or in Alicante?
Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández airport is inside the Elche municipal boundary, between the El Altet and Torrellano pedanías, despite the order of the names. It handled 18.4 million passengers in 2024. For us it is home ground rather than a trip out.
Somewhere in Elche or just over the line?
Ring and say where you are. If it is outside what we cover we will tell you straight away rather than take the job and be an hour late.
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