Spain Crime Explorer

Compare official police-recorded offence rates with the national average across Spain.

Municipality below 20,000 residents - Showing provincial or island context

The Ministry of the Interior only publishes standalone municipal crime breakdowns for municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants. Figures below reflect the official provincial or island benchmark.

Crime Profile vs. Spain Average

The dashed ring marks the Spain average (1.0x). Segments inside are below average; segments outside are above average.

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1.0x Spain Average Reference Ring Visual scale capped at 3.5x Spain average

Crime Trends

Municipality Spain Average
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All Recorded Crime Categories

All 19 official SEC crime categories for the selected location and period. Click any row to update the chart above.

Code Offence Category Recorded Cases Local Rate Spain Avg vs. Spain YoY Change

Data Sources & How to Read This Page

Official sources, population denominators, and guidance on interpreting municipal crime statistics.

The BarrioRadar Spain Crime Explorer provides free, interactive access to official municipal crime statistics published by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior's Sistema Estadístico de Criminalidad (SEC). Search any of Spain's 8,132 municipalities to compare local police-recorded offence rates per 1,000 residents or homes against the national benchmark across 19 official crime categories, with direct municipal series for all 434 municipalities above 20,000 residents and official provincial or island context for smaller towns.

Explore multi-year historical crime trends from 2016 to 2025 alongside rolling 12-month quarterly updates, covering everyday property offences (theft, home burglary, vehicle theft, and cyber fraud) as well as personal safety indicators (robbery with violence, serious assault, sexual offences, and homicide), normalized with INE Padrón population and 2021 Housing Census denominators.

Official Data Sources & Coverage
Primary Crime Source

Ministerio del Interior - Portal Estadístico de Criminalidad (SEC), quarterly and annual series.

Geographic Threshold (>20,000 Residents)

SEC publishes direct municipal breakdowns for municipalities above 20,000 residents. Smaller municipalities display their official provincial or island benchmark.

Population & Housing Denominators

Rates per 1,000 residents use the official INE Padrón Municipal for the matching year. Home burglary per 1,000 homes uses the INE 2021 Housing Census.

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How the Crime Wheel & Rare-Incident Adjustments Work

Relative Wheel Scale & 3.5x Cap

Each segment compares the local rate with the Spain average (1.0x dashed ring). Segments are capped at 3.5x so extreme outliers do not distort the chart; exact figures always appear in tooltips and the table.

Small-Number Smoothing for Rare Offences

For rare offences (homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault), a single incident in a mid-sized town can cause a huge spike. The wheel smooths low-volume ratios toward the national average (weight k = 5 expected cases) while showing exact unadjusted counts and rates in the table.

Year-on-Year Change Threshold

When a category has fewer than 10 cases in the current or previous year, percentage changes are hidden ('Few cases (<10)') because small shifts (such as 1 to 2 cases) produce misleading percentages.

Official SEC Category Hierarchy & Legal Notes

Total Criminality equals Conventional Criminality plus Cybercrime. Home burglary is a subset of 'Burglary with Force in Homes and Other Premises'.

In 2023, Organic Law 10/2022 unified previous 'sexual abuse' and 'sexual assault' offences into a single legal framework. Multi-year comparisons of sexual offence categories across 2022/2023 should account for this legal change.