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Sant Joan Despí, in questions

9 figures for Sant Joan Despí next to the AMB, each with its source, period and limits. Further down, the 36 questions the viewer can answer.

Sant Joan Despí: 3D view of the town centre at dusk, each building coloured by its construction period.
ObservedSant Joan Despí at dusk in the Xamfrà viewer: each building takes the construction period of its parcel from the Cadastre.

Figures next to the AMB

Each dot is one of the 36 municipalities; the dark mark is this municipality and the “AMB” line is the reference for the whole metropolitan area.

More context

Four readings that do not fit a dot strip, each with its own limit.

What people work in

Activity sections that weigh more in Sant Joan Despí than across the municipalities with data by sector (end of June 2026).

What people work in
SectorJobsShare hereShare in the AMBQuotient
Publishing, broadcasting and content2,41513.2%1.3%× 10.5
Manufacturing2,85015.6%7.3%× 2.1
Water, sewerage and waste3251.8%0.9%× 2.0

Quotient: location quotient: the sector’s share in the municipality divided by its share across the municipalities with data by sector; above 1, more weight than the reference.

Source. Social Security affiliations by CCAE-2025 section, at the municipality of the contribution account (Idescat), end of June 2026, provisional.

Limit. Affiliations, not persons; rounded to multiples of 5. A cell under 50 affiliations has no quotient. Not an economic-complexity or cluster index.

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Movement by mobile phone

Estimated trips of a working day, over 500 m, that start in Sant Joan Despí.

  • ≈ 3.5trips per resident that start here
  • ≈ 20,800trips that start and end in the municipality

AMB: ≈ 3.6 trips per resident

Source. MITMA, mobility studies with big data (mobile phones) · Period: working week 13–17 October 2025

Limit. Estimate from mobile devices, not persons; no transport mode or route. Only trips over 500 m: in a small municipality most internal movement does not appear. Pairs under 10 trips a day are not published, so trips towards other places are a minimum. Residents of the MITMA zone, not the INE census; the AMB reference is derived.

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What the sections are like

The census sections of Sant Joan Despí split into five descriptive types, by the residents who live in them.

  • A · Dense fabric, many children, low income, large households13.4% · 3 sections · 4,798 residents
  • B · Medium density, older population, medium income35.5% · 9 sections · 12,698 residents
  • D · Low-density fabric, many children, medium income, mostly built since 198040.1% · 9 sections · 14,350 residents
  • E · Dispersed fabric, many children, medium income, far from primary care11.1% · 3 sections · 3,965 residents

Source. Xamfrà’s own method, k-means with five types, on INE data (2025 census, 2023 income), the Cadastre and service registers. Residents per 2025 section (INE). Generated on 6 Oct 2026 (method 1.0.0).

Limit. Descriptive grouping of the AMB’s sections on ten published variables: not a ranking or a score, and no type is better than another. Section context, not the building or the people. The A–E order is not a hierarchy.

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EU-funded research

Horizon Europe (2021–2027) and Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) projects with participants in Sant Joan Despí.

  • 8participations
  • 8projects
  • 5organisations

AMB: 7,006 participations · 4,981 projects · 788 organisations

Source. CORDIS, European Commission; aggregated by Xamfrà. Data downloaded on 4 Oct 2026.

Limit. Only Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects: not all research, nor private R&D, nor patents. A participation is one organisation in one project.

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Questions the viewer answers about Sant Joan Despí

36 questions with data for Sant Joan Despí. Each link opens the viewer with the municipality already chosen and the question’s view. The viewer is in beta and asks for access.

Population

Services

Mobility

Housing and economy

Environment

  • Who has no park nearby in Sant Joan Despí?Each building with its distance to the nearest public park ≥ 0.5 ha; the panel counts residents with no park within 300 m.Limit: OpenStreetMap parks; straight line to the edge, not walking time or park quality.View: Park nearby
  • Which part of Sant Joan Despí is noisiest?Buildings tinted by the share of their section’s area at Lden ≥ 65 dB(A); night level on the ground.Limit: Strategic noise-map model, not exposed residents or a measurement.View: Noise
  • Who lives far from a climate shelter in Sant Joan Despí?Each building with its distance to the nearest climate shelter; the panel counts residents in sections more than 500 m from a climate shelter.Limit: A registered shelter does not guarantee opening hours or capacity; straight line, not walking time.View: Climate shelters
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Population

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How we check

Every figure on this page comes from an open source with its publisher, period and licence. An unknown value is never painted as zero: when there is no data, the row does not appear. Method and sources →

Sources of this page
  • INE: annual population census at 1 Jan 2025 and Household Income Distribution Atlas 2023 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Idescat: municipal register 2015 and 2025; Social Security affiliations by municipality (tables by workplace and by residence).
  • Generalitat de Catalunya: Incasòl rent deposits 2026-Q1 and registered unemployment rate of August 2026 (Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, SEPE data, provisional); CatSalut, health centre finder.
  • OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): parks, with the limits of their tagging.
  • MITMA: mobility studies with big data, based on open data of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility.
  • CORDIS, European Commission: Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects (Commission reuse notice); aggregated by Xamfrà.

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