The magnitude and the recurrence of crisis episodes, which were triggered after 2008, demand a new set of references to allow us to analyse the factors and contexts that (un)block the progress of municipal communities. The assessment of socioeconomic resilience implies a thoughtful consideration of spatial, temporal and sectorial interactions, by combining factors that reinforce persistence to the development trajectories, along with other evolution and transformation drivers. A matrix of 22 indicators, organised in four domains (governance and urban, economic and social structures), was developed through the analysis of 18 models which evaluate territorial resilience. This matrix replicates the most expressive socioeconomic dimensions. When applying it to Portuguese municipalities, considering that there were pre- and a post-crisis periods after the beginning of the 2008 crisis, we mapped a country that was vulnerable to crisis and, as a result, lost development potential. The evolution between the pre- and the post-crisis periods shows the strengthening of central areas and the intensification of the vulnerabilities in the peripheries.