Select an official Ministry of the Interior (SEC) crime category to rank reporting Spanish municipalities by rate or count and explore quarterly rolling 12-month evolution.
Select any of 19 official Spanish Ministry of the Interior (SEC) offence categories to compare reporting municipalities (427 in complete series, 431 with latest entrants) across per-1,000 rates, raw case counts, national maps and rolling 12-month quarters since 2016.
Choose any official SEC category or subcategory (synced with the sunburst).
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Each bar shows the municipality's selected crime rate. The vertical marker shows the national (or pooled SEC dwelling) benchmark, and Nx indicates how many times that benchmark the municipality records.
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Excludes Ceuta (51001), Melilla (52001) and Formentera (07024), which SEC publishes as provincial or island reporting entities rather than strictly municipal observations.
Recorded offences may involve non-resident tourists, airport or port transit passengers, shoppers and daily commuters outside registered INE Padron denominators. Rates per 1,000 residents can therefore appear elevated in resort municipalities, transport hubs and commercial centres.
Spanish Ministry of the Interior - Sistema Estadistico de Criminalidad (SEC) & INE.
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Official municipality-level recorded offence rates for the selected category and period (direct SEC reporting municipalities, typically >=20,000 residents). Reflects municipal administrative totals, not street-level risk.
[III] Total Recorded Offences · Per 1,000 residents · -
Quarterly rolling 12-month municipal rates tracked across observed SEC releases. Animation interpolates smoothly between observed quarters without fabricating monthly figures.
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Municipal rankings include only direct SEC municipal reporting units (427 municipalities in complete rolling 12-month and annual series, 431 including 2026-Q2 year-to-date entrants, and 432 across any historical quarter, out of 8,132 municipalities in Spain). Ceuta (51001), Melilla (52001) and Formentera (07024) are excluded because SEC reports them as autonomous-city or island aggregates rather than comparable municipalities.
By default, Explore by Crime enforces a minimum threshold of 5 recorded cases (min5) for rate rankings to suppress single-case Poisson noise in ~20,000-resident municipalities. At 5 cases per 20,000 residents (0.25 per 1,000), the exact 95% Garwood Poisson confidence interval still spans 0.08 to 0.58 per 1,000 (a 7.2x range), and tourist resorts, port hubs or commercial centres attract commuters and visitors beyond resident Padron denominators. Rates display to 2 decimals (4 for rare offences 1, 2 and 4) while national multiples divide those published display rates; switch anytime to >=1, >=10 or raw cases.
The SEC taxonomy follows strict parent-child hierarchy rules: III (Total Recorded Crime) = I (Conventional Crime) + II (Cybercrime). Categories 1 through 11 sum to I; 5.1 + 5.2 sum to 5 (Sexual Offences); and 7.1 (Residential Burglary) is a subset of 7 (All Burglary with Force). Category 7.1 defaults to INE 2021 census dwellings (per 1,000 homes), whereas all other categories use INE Padron residents (per 1,000 residents). Because INE publishes municipal dwelling counts only in the decennial 2021 Census rather than annually, historical 7.1 rates (2016-2026) apply fixed 2021 housing stock.
Categories III, 1, 6, 7.1, 8, 9 and 10 run continuously from 2016/2017 onward; categories 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.1, 5.2 and 7 begin in 2017; and the Dual-Pillar split introducing I (Conventional), 11 (Other conventional offences), and II, 12, 13 (Cybercrime) begins in 2022 annual / 2023-Q4 rolling 12-month data. Sexual offence categories (5, 5.1, 5.2) carry a statutory break under Organic Law 10/2022.
SEC publishes cumulative year-to-date offence counts each quarter (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4). BarrioRadar derives exact rolling 12-month (TTM) totals for any quarter (Y, Q) where Q < 4 as YTD(Y, Q) + FullYear(Y-1, Q4) - YTD(Y-1, Q), and uses FullYear(Y, Q4) directly when Q = 4. Small negative TTM values caused by retroactive police/court reclassification across years are suppressed rather than clamped to zero.
When playing the Historical Ranking Race, animated transitions between two observed quarters represent visual motion between real quarterly checkpoints and never claim to measure intermediate months.
Plain-language explanations of how official SEC offence categories, population denominators, small-count filters and rolling 12-month quarterly rankings work.
Recorded crime rates divide offences by registered Padron residents (or 2021 Census homes for Residential Burglary). Coastal resorts, port hubs, border corridors and commercial centres receive large flows of daily visitors, commuters and seasonal guests beyond their registered headcounts. As a result, a high rate reflects reported incidents per resident rather than risk per person present, and BarrioRadar never labels places as unsafe.
Spain has 8,132 municipalities, but the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (SEC) publishes municipal figures only for reporting tiers: above 50,000 residents in 2016, above 30,000 from 2017-Q4, and 20,000 or more from 2021-Q4 onward. This yields 427 complete municipal series (431 including 2026-Q2 entrants and 432 across all historical quarters). Smaller towns appear only inside provincial or island totals.
Large cities record higher total offence counts simply because more people live there, whereas rates per 1,000 residents (or homes) normalise across population size. However, in a 20,000-resident municipality, 1 to 4 rare incidents can create wide Poisson swings: 5 cases per 20,000 equals 0.25 per 1,000 with a 95% Garwood confidence interval of 0.08 to 0.58. BarrioRadar defaults to >=5 cases, with >=1 and >=10 toggles.
Home burglaries target residential properties rather than registered residents. Municipalities with heavy holiday-home or seasonal occupancy would appear distorted if residential break-ins were divided by year-round Padron population alone. Category 7.1 therefore defaults to INE 2021 Census total dwellings (per 1,000 homes). Because Spain conducts dwelling counts decennially rather than annually, 2016-2026 rates hold 2021 housing stock fixed, with a per-resident toggle.
The Ministry of the Interior publishes cumulative year-to-date SEC offence totals every quarter. For quarters Q1 to Q3, BarrioRadar computes exact trailing 12-month (TTM) totals via YTD(Y, Q) + FullYear(Y-1, Q4) - YTD(Y-1, Q), and uses FullYear(Y, Q4) directly for Q4. When playing the ranking race, smooth motion connects observed quarterly checkpoints for readability only and never invents monthly observations.
Under SEC taxonomy rules, III (Total Recorded Crime) equals I (Conventional Crime) plus II (Cybercrime). Subcategories 1 to 11 sum to I, 5.1 + 5.2 sum to 5, and 7.1 sits inside 7. Dual-Pillar categories (I, II, 11, 12, 13) begin in 2022 annual / 2023-Q4 rolling data, while Organic Law 10/2022 unified sexual offence classifications from 2022-Q4 onward, marked as a statutory break.
SEC reports Ceuta (51001) and Melilla (52001) as autonomous-city totals and Formentera (07024) as an island-wide unit outside standard municipal comparison tiers, so BarrioRadar excludes them from rankings. Likewise, when updated SEC releases revise earlier quarters asymmetrically and cause mixed-vintage quarters or negative derived 12-month revision deltas, affected municipal observations are suppressed rather than clamped to zero.
Use Explore by Crime when starting from a specific offence type (such as residential burglary or vehicle theft) to find which Spanish municipalities rank highest nationwide, inspect geographic clusters on the map and follow quarterly rank changes since 2016. Use the companion Explore by Place view when investigating one municipality across all 19 SEC categories, long-term trends and national benchmarks.