Market map · Portugal

Public, community & associations in Portugal_

As of 4 November 2026, 10,847 public, community & associations companies are based in Portugal: 718 with 51+ employees, 14 hiring right now, led by nonprofit civic associations and Lisboa.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
10,847
51+ employees
718 · 7%
Hiring now
14 · 5 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Nonprofit civic associations · 3,615
Top city
Lisboa · 1,281
Running cold outbound
1
10,847public, community & associations companies in Portugal
718with 51+ employees
14hiring on their own career site today
5opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Public, community & associations in Portugal, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Nonprofit civic associations
3,615 · 2
Municipal government
2,264 · 1
Charitable foundations
1,815 · 2
Membership associations & unions
1,812 · 3
Public programmes & agencies
1,408 · 7
Amateur sports clubs
1,393 · 1
Churches congregations
734 · 2
Research institutes & think tanks
574 · 1
Justice & public safety
11 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
3,474 · 0
2-10 employees
5,258 · 2
11-50 employees
1,397 · 3
51-200 employees
460 · 2
201-500 employees
152 · 4
501-1000 employees
51 · 1
1001-5000 employees
39 · 2
5001-10000 employees
4 · 0
10,001+ employees
12 · 0
By city
companiesshare
Lisboa
1,28112%
Porto
4404%
Coimbra
1772%
Braga
1131%
Lisbon
861%
Funchal
781%
Vila Nova de Gaia
631%
Aveiro
621%
Viseu
601%
Faro
591%
Setúbal
540%
Guimarães
520%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest public, community & associations companies in Portugal

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

10,847 public, community & associations companies in Portugal; 14 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of public, community & associations in Portugal

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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10,847 public, community & associations companies are based in Portugal: 718 with 51 or more employees, 14 hiring right now (5 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by nonprofit civic associations and Lisboa. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/portugal)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Public, community & associations in Portugal: questions

How many public, community & associations companies are there in Portugal?

10,847 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 718 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to public, community & associations?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which public, community & associations companies in Portugal are hiring?

14 have an open role on their own career site today and 5 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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Yes: filter on public, community & associations and Portugal, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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