BarrioRadar evaluates everyday surroundings across Spain using official public registries, scheduled transit timetables, and pedestrian street-network routing. This page explains what our location scores measure, how the seven scoring components are weighted, and what a location report does and does not represent.
The overall BarrioRadar Score combines seven core dimensions of everyday urban and residential life. Each component is scored on a 0 to 100 scale and combined using fixed, transparent weights that sum to 100%.
Conceptual model diagram. Select a node or category button to inspect how each dimension is evaluated.
Walking proximity to public transport stops, the diversity of distinct routes serving the neighbourhood, and scheduled service frequencies across metro, commuter rail, tram, and urban or interurban bus networks.
Reliable public transport reduces household dependence on a private car for commuting, school runs, and reaching city-centre services, while connecting outer neighbourhoods to regional rail and metro corridors.
Walking proximity to public transport stops, the diversity of distinct routes serving the neighbourhood, and scheduled service frequencies across metro, commuter rail, tram, and urban or interurban bus networks.
Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible (MITMA NAP), regional transport consortia, and municipal transit operators.
Walking access to a full-service supermarket alongside the variety of everyday food retail - bakeries, greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers, municipal markets, and convenience grocers. Pharmacies are evaluated separately under Healthcare.
OpenStreetMap contributors and verified commercial food retail directories.
Access to primary care health centres (Centros de Salud and Consultorios Locales), 24-hour urgent care points (SUAP/PAC and hospital emergency departments), dispensing community pharmacies, and general hospitals.
Ministerio de Sanidad (SIAP, CNH, REGCESS), Autonomous Community health service registries, and OpenStreetMap pharmacy locations.
Pedestrian proximity to officially registered infant and primary schools (Educacion Infantil y Primaria), secondary and sixth-form centres (ESO, Bachillerato, and FP), and local availability of publicly funded (publico or concertado) school options.
Ministerio de Educacion, Formacion Profesional y Deportes (RCE) and regional education authority registries.
Walking access to publicly accessible parks, municipal gardens with confirmed pedestrian entry, coastal beaches and promenades, children's playgrounds, and public sports pitches or centres.
OpenStreetMap contributors with public pedestrian access filtering and perimeter entrance mapping.
Immediate doorstep access to a nearby cafe, bar, or restaurant combined with the broader variety of neighbourhood dining, social venues, and cultural spaces within walking reach.
OpenStreetMap hospitality and cultural amenity data across Spain.
Proximity to dedicated cycleways, the continuity and density of the local cycling network, physical separation from heavy motor traffic, and access to municipal public bike-share docking stations.
OpenStreetMap cycleway and street network mapping and municipal public bike-share systems.
BarrioRadar uses two complementary spatial methods so that both nationwide area comparisons and detailed single-address reports reflect realistic access on the ground.
Routing along actual footways and crossings reveals that Supermarket A requires a long detour, making Supermarket B the genuinely closer everyday option.
Large urban parks can span hundreds of metres from edge to centre. BarrioRadar measures access to the nearest accessible park perimeter or pedestrian entrance rather than the middle of the polygon.
Nearby services generally contribute more to everyday convenience than distant alternatives, while having several useful choices is considered differently from simply counting every establishment on a commercial street.
Across Spain, BarrioRadar anchors its national 250-metre scoring grid on official CartoCiudad address portals and pedestrian street routing, while full property reports also run live point-to-point walking analyses and exact parcel checks from the property's coordinates.
Single-property scorecards and branded agency reports use the seven-dimension V3 location score alongside a separate 15-minute walking accessibility analysis. City-wide rankings and municipal research publications use uniform comparative grid models tailored for macro urban studies.
BarrioRadar is committed to strict data integrity: we never invent fallback figures or interpolate missing years. Because official registries publish on different schedules, every report displays the exact reference period for each dataset.
Dense, well-connected urban neighbourhoods where supermarkets, pharmacies, primary healthcare, schools, public parks, dining, and frequent public transport are all reachable within a short walk from the front door.
The BarrioRadar Score measures proximity to everyday services and public infrastructure - not tranquillity, scenic views, plot size, architectural quality, or investment potential.
A detached villa in a quiet coastal urbanisation or rural estate will naturally receive a C or D score because daily errands require a car, even when the home itself is highly desirable for buyers seeking privacy and space. Conversely, a high score in a busy city centre does not guarantee a quiet street or a well-maintained apartment building.
BarrioRadar strictly distinguishes between a verified absence of nearby amenities and missing official data. A low numerical score means our registries confirm that few or no qualifying services lie within walking range.
If upstream official registries lack sufficient verified coverage for a municipality (for example, where local transit timetables have not been published in national open feeds and total verified evidence falls below our completeness threshold), the score is reported as Unavailable rather than penalizing the location with a false zero.
These official registries and spatial networks directly determine the seven dimensions of the BarrioRadar Score and our 15-minute walking accessibility calculations:
These official statistical, fiscal, cadastral, and environmental sources power the contextual chapters of BarrioRadar reports. They have zero effect on the 0 to 100 BarrioRadar Score:
Registry market indicators in full reports: Fuente: Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad, Bienes Muebles y Mercantiles de Espana (CORPME) - Estadistica Registral Inmobiliaria bajo Licencia ODbL 1.0. Cartography: CC-BY 4.0 scne.es / IGN CartoCiudad & (c) OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
A full BarrioRadar Location Report brings together broader neighbourhood, environmental, and market intelligence alongside the seven-dimension score. Keeping these contextual layers separate from the 0 to 100 score ensures that high property prices or high neighbourhood income never artificially inflate a location's accessibility rating.
Municipal and provincial sales volumes (MIVAU SEDAL and CORPME), new-build versus resale splits, international buyer shares, and regional buyer acquisition tax brackets (ITP, AJD, and IVA).
Provincial mortgage originations and average loan capital (INE Op. 40), registry modifications and foreclosures (INE Op. 259), and national reference interest rates and LTV indicators (Banco de Espana).
Census-section monthly rental benchmarks (EUR/m2 median, 25th and 75th percentiles) from the official MIVAU SERPAVI reference system for collective apartments and single-family homes.
Resident age structure and population trends (INE Padron), census-section net household income (INE ADRH), and postal-code disposable income statistics (Agencia Tributaria AEAT).
Coordinate-level intersection against official MITECO SNCZI and regional flood hazard polygons (10, 100, and 500-year return periods) and MITECO SICA strategic daytime and nighttime noise maps.
Official census-section counts of licensed tourist dwellings (VUT), bed capacity, and the percentage of local residential housing stock dedicated to short-term holiday rentals (INE Op. 30182).
Designed for estate agencies sharing location dossiers with prospective buyers or tenants. Includes the Executive Cover, 7-Dimension Breakdown, Demographics & Income, Holiday Rentals, 15-Minute Walking Accessibility, Nearby Amenities, Schools, Healthcare, Public Transport, Cycling, Flood Risk, and Environmental Noise - while omitting area price and mortgage benchmarks.
Includes all 14 neighbourhood, infrastructure, and environmental chapters plus five additional market and financial chapters: Local Property Sales & Purchase Taxes, Historical Price Trends, Mortgage & Financing Indicators, International Buyer & Currency Trends, and Official SERPAVI Rental Benchmarks.
Official Spanish registries publish on different schedules and at different geographic scales. Because an annual tax or rental registry cannot be updated at the same speed as a daily exchange rate or weekly bus timetable, BarrioRadar tracks three distinct dates for every dataset:
The real-world calendar period measured by the official source - such as an academic school year, an active transit timetable window, a quarterly property registry period, or a reconciled annual tax exercise.
The date the ministry, statistical institute, or public authority published the validated edition. Administrative datasets such as household income (INE ADRH) and rental benchmarks (SERPAVI) undergo statutory verification before release.
When BarrioRadar ingested, spatially validated, and promoted the dataset into production. Importing a dataset recently ensures we use the latest official release, but does not change the underlying historical observation period.
| Dataset Domain & Providers | Geographic Scale | Verified Observation Period | Role in BarrioRadar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addresses, Streets & Cadastral Parcels IGN CartoCiudad & Direccion General del Catastro |
Door-level address portals (all 52 provinces) & cadastral parcels | 2025 / 2026 active cartography | Core grid anchor, geocoding & property summary |
| Public Transport Timetables (GTFS) MITMA NAP, regional consortia & municipal operators |
Stop-level coordinates & scheduled route departures | 2025 / 2026 active service calendars | Core Location Score (Public Transport) & Pages 14-15 |
| Education & Healthcare Registries MEFD (RCE), Ministerio de Sanidad (SIAP, CNH, REGCESS) & Autonomous Communities |
Verified facility coordinates nationwide | 2025/2026 academic & 2024-2026 health registers | Core Location Score (Education & Healthcare) & Pages 12-13 |
| Everyday Amenities, Parks & Cycling Network OpenStreetMap contributors & public bike-share feeds |
Point venues, park polygons & pedestrian/cycling street graph | 2026 validated spatial extracts | Core Location Score, Valhalla routing & Pages 10-11, 16-17 |
| Property Sales, Mortgages & Exchange Rates CORPME (Registradores), MIVAU (SEDAL), INE (Op. 40/259), Banco de Espana & ECB |
Municipal (SEDAL), Provincial/CCAA (CORPME, INE) & National | 2026 Q2 (Sales) / 2026 M08-M09 (Rates) / Daily FX | Professional Report Context (Pages 3-6, 0% score effect) |
| Official Rental Benchmarks (SERPAVI) Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana (MIVAU) |
Census section (CUSEC, 2021 vintage) & municipality | 2011 - 2024 consolidated annual series | Professional Report Context (Page 7, 0% score effect) |
| Demographics, Household Income & Tourist Rentals INE (Padron, ADRH, VUT) & Agencia Tributaria (AEAT) |
Census section (CUSEC), postal code (AEAT) & municipality | 2023 (ADRH) / 2024 (AEAT & Padron) / 2026 (VUT) | Report Context (Pages 8-9 Pro / Pages 3-4 Client) |
| Flood Hazard & Strategic Noise Mapping MITECO (SNCZI & SICA 4th Phase) & Regional Water/Territorial Authorities |
Exact property coordinate polygon intersection | EU Floods & Noise Directive active cycles (2022-2026) | Report Context (Pages 18-19 Pro / Pages 13-14 Client) |
Location data helps buyers, tenants, and researchers ask better questions before visiting a property, but every public dataset has practical boundaries that should be kept in mind.
Official statistics and open maps can be incomplete or delayed. Shops, cafes, and local businesses may open or close between mapping updates, and rural demand-responsive or municipal bus services that are not published in standardized GTFS feeds may not appear in automated transit checks.
Walking proximity to a registered school, health centre (Centro de Salud), or hospital measures physical reachability only. It does not guarantee school place availability, catchment admission points, or administrative healthcare assignment.
Walking times and network distances are modelled using standard pedestrian footway routing (1.2 to 1.3 m/s). They do not certify step-free wheelchair access, pavement width, kerb ramps, street lighting, or universal accessibility for all mobility needs.
Official flood (SNCZI and regional) and noise (SICA) maps cover designated river basins, coastal zones, and major urban agglomerations. Absence of a mapped hazard means no published polygon intersects the coordinate, not guaranteed immunity from localized drainage flooding or neighbourhood noise. In rental and tax datasets, small samples (such as census sections with fewer than 10 rental contracts in SERPAVI) are suppressed for privacy and shown as unavailable.
Whether you scanned a QR code on a printed estate agency dossier or searched an address online, use the BarrioRadar report as an objective starting point. Combine its map of nearby transport, schools, clinics, and environmental context with an in-person walk around the neighbourhood at different times of day, and verify any legal, structural, or administrative questions directly with qualified professionals.