One office for 85,000 people, and it is not in El Vedat
Torrent is the largest municipality on this site by a distance, and it registers everybody at a single office: the TDIC, on C/ Ramón y Cajal, 1.
There is no office in El Vedat, which is where most of Torrent's private schools are and where an international family is most likely to live. That is a drive across town for a form.
The compensation is real, though, and Torrent is the only town here that offers it: it opens in the evening and on Saturday mornings. For a parent who cannot take a Tuesday morning off, that is the difference between doing this in one trip and burning a working day.
If you have no rental contract
Torrent uses a named form, the Modelo AIVA, and it requires the property owner's signature. A utility bill on its own is not enough here — Riba-roja accepts one, Torrent does not.
One inconsistency worth knowing: the town's web page omits the IBI receipt while its own AIVA form accepts it. Take the receipt if you have it.
No sworn translation or apostille is published as a requirement.
The schools, and a warning about finding them
Torrent has 58 registered centres, more than any other town on this site, and its private schools cluster in El Vedat.
Two of them call themselves "El Vedat" — one run by Fomento, one by the Teresianas — so check which one you are looking at.
And one genuine trap: the official registry still links cjulioverne.com for Julio Verne, and that domain is now an Indonesian gambling site. The school's real address on the web is julioverneschool.es. If you followed the official link and thought the school had vanished, that is why.
What it costs to live here
Family houses in El Vedat commonly sit between €1,100 and €2,000 a month; flats in the town centre are well below that. About 20 minutes into central Valencia by car, 25 on metro lines 1 and 2.