Older people
Where do older residents live?
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Nine themes
The label on each view says what the colour on the map belongs to: a building, a census section, a neighbourhood, a municipality, points, street or track segments, zones, flows or a grid. Views marked “new” were added since 5 October 2026.
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Population
Older people
Where do older people live, and how many care places are there?
Very old people (80+)
Where do more people aged 80 and over live?
Places for older people
How many residence and day-centre places are there per 100 people aged 80+?
Pre-1960 buildings in sections with more people aged 80+
Where are old buildings in sections with many residents aged 80+?
Old walk-up blocks in sections with more people aged 80+
Where are pre-1980 residential blocks of 4 floors or more in sections with many residents aged 80+?
Buildings with no bus stop within 300 m and no station within 800 m (straight line) in sections with more people aged 65+
Where are buildings with no bus stop within 300 m and no station within 800 m in a straight line, in sections with many residents aged 65+?
Buildings more than 1 km (straight line) from a primary-care centre in sections with more people aged 80+
Where are buildings more than 1 km in a straight line from a primary-care centre, in sections with many residents aged 80+?
Childhood
Where do most children live, which ones have no play area nearby and where are nursery places short?
Children
Where do most children live?
Children and play spaces
Where do many children live without a play area within a 300 m walk, and where is it also hot with little shade?
Nursery places
Where do many children aged 0–2 live without a public nursery within a 500 m walk, with low income, more infants and new homes planned nearby?
Buildings more than 300 m (straight line) from a park of 0.5 ha or more in sections with more children
Where are buildings more than 300 m in a straight line from a park of 0.5 ha or more, and what share of children aged 0–14 does the section have?
Dwellings far from a play area in sections with more children
Where are buildings with dwellings more than a 600 m walk from a play area, and what share of children does the section have?
Density and residents
Where do most people live, and how are they spread by age and nationality?
Density
Where do most people live per km²?
1 dot = 10 people
How are the residents’ age and nationality spread?
Origin and language
Where do more foreign-national or foreign-born residents live, and how widely is Catalan known?
Foreign nationality
Where do more foreign-national residents live?
Born abroad
Where do more people born outside Spain live?
Knowledge of Catalan
What share of residents can speak, understand, read and write Catalan, and which language do they use at home?
Census: education and activity
What education and activity do the residents of each section have?
Tertiary education
Where do more people with tertiary education live?
Primary or less
Where do more people who did not go beyond primary education live?
Activity
What share of residents of working age work or look for a job?
Census unemployment
Where is the share of the active population that is unemployed highest?
Change and projections
How has the population changed, and how may demand for services change up to 2040?
Population change
Where has population grown or fallen since 2015?
Future demand (Idescat projections)
How could the demand for nurseries, schools, older-people care and home care change by 2030, 2035 and 2040?
Profile and vulnerability
What socio-economic position does each section have, which neighbourhoods are most vulnerable and which sections are alike?
Socioeconomic index (IST)
How does each section’s socioeconomic position compare with the Catalonia average?
Urban vulnerability
Which neighbourhoods are the most vulnerable according to the official indices, and on what scale?
Neighbourhood indicators (AMB)
What is each AMB statistical neighbourhood like: commerce, tourism, work, rent, vulnerability?
Section types
Which sections resemble each other?
Benefits and disability
How many people have a recognised disability or receive social benefits in each municipality?
Other views in this theme
Views that answer a question of their own, with no family.
Single-person households
Where are there more one-person households?
Elections by section
What were the turnout and the most-voted candidature in each section at the latest elections?
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Housing
Housing stock
What homes are there, how many are empty or not main residences, who owns them and how dense are they?
Housing in the 2021 census
What share of dwellings is rented, owned or not a main residence, and how does it compare with the AMB?
Dwellings without consumption (2021 census)
Where are there most dwellings with no or very low electricity consumption?
Non-main homes where demand is high
Where are there many non-main dwellings in sections with much renting, rising rents, services and rail nearby?
Housing ownership
Who owns Barcelona’s dwellings: people, companies or public bodies?
Dwellings per hectare
How many dwellings are there per hectare and how does it compare with the rest of the AMB?
Tourism
How many tourist flats and hotels are there, where does tourism weigh most on housing and how many visitors does each municipality receive?
Tourist flats
Where are tourist-use dwellings concentrated?
Tourism pressure
Where does tourist accommodation weigh most on resident housing and population, and where do many visitors arrive per resident?
Hotels and accommodation
Where are the hotels and other tourist accommodation, of what category and how many places do they have?
Visitors (mobile phones)
How many tourists from elsewhere does each municipality receive, and in which month?
Tourist flats in the building
What share of each building’s dwellings are registered tourist flats?
Buildings with tourist flats in sections with more rented homes
Where are buildings with tourist flats in sections with more rented homes?
Rent
What does rent cost, what burden is it and where do conditions associated with displacement risk coincide?
Rent
Where is the rent of new contracts highest?
Rent burden
What share of a household’s income would a new rental contract take?
Displacement pressure
Where do enough conditions associated with residential displacement risk coincide?
Access to housing
How much new and protected housing is built, how much protected demand is there, how many rent aids are granted and how many evictions are carried out?
New and protected housing
Where was most new and protected housing built in the last five years?
Protected housing: demand and supply
Per municipality: how much registered demand for protected housing is there, how many emergency cases, what protected stock is in force, how many protected homes are completed and planned, and how many years would cover current registrations?
Rent benefits and empty dwellings (IHB)
How many rent-payment benefits are granted per 1,000 households, of what amount, and how many empty dwellings do legal persons and large holders declare?
Executed evictions (by judicial district)
How many launches do the courts of each judicial district execute per 1,000 households, and of which type?
Other views in this theme
Views that answer a question of their own, with no family.
Energy poverty and retrofit
Where do inefficient, old dwellings, low income, heat and older residents with many one-person households coincide?
Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, 2009–2026
Which neighbourhoods changed most since 2009, and when?
What’s near me?
How many basic services are near home, what lies within 15 minutes on foot and where do uses mix?
Services nearby
How many basic services are close to home?
15-minute city
How many basic services do residents have within a 15-minute walk?
Land-use mix nearby
Where do housing, shops, work and services mix?
Few services within 15 minutes in lower-income sections
Where are homes with 4 or fewer of the 7 basic services within a 15-minute walk in low-income sections?
Facilities
Where are the facilities, and how many are there per resident?
Facilities
Where are the facilities and services?
Facilities per resident
How many facilities are there per 10,000 residents?
Sport
Where are the sports facilities?
Libraries
Where are the libraries?
Social services
Where are the social services centres?
Health
Who lives far from a primary-care centre, a pharmacy or a hospital?
Health
Who lives far from a primary-care centre?
Pharmacies
Who lives far from a pharmacy?
Hospitals
Who lives furthest from a hospital?
Pressure on primary care
Where do a basic health area with many residents per CAP, an old population, low income, planned new residents and a CAP more than a 1 km walk away coincide?
Schools
Who lives far from a school, and where are places filled?
Education
Who lives far from a primary school?
School demand
Where are all places filled at pre-enrolment, and where are some left?
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Mobility
Public transport
How much public transport is nearby, where is supply short and how many jobs can be reached?
Stations nearby
Who lives far from a train, metro or tram station?
Transit service level
How much scheduled public transport is there near each building (stops within 300 or 500 m in a straight line)?
Nearest station to the building
How far, in a straight line, is the nearest train, metro or tram station?
Transit supply vs demand
Where is potential demand for public transport high and scheduled supply low?
Access to jobs
How many (modelled) jobs can be reached by public transport and walking from each section in the morning peak?
Where public transport falls short
Where do many people travel but public transport is not a competitive alternative?
Cycling
Where can you ride, where are shared bikes and how many pass by?
Cycle network
Where can you ride a bike?
Bike share
Where are bikes or docks available now?
Bike and traffic counters
How many bikes (and vehicles) are actually counted on the street?
The Bicing tide
Where do the bikes go in the morning and in the evening?
Car and street
How much traffic is there now and how many heavy vehicles use the roads, where do crashes happen, which zones restrict polluting vehicles and how many vehicles are there?
Traffic
Where is traffic congested now?
Road traffic
How many vehicles, and how many heavy ones, use each road, from the AP-7 to the local network?
Road safety
Where do traffic accidents happen and which are serious?
LEZ
What lies inside the low emission zone and how many people live there?
Vehicles and motorisation
How many cars and motorcycles are registered per 1,000 residents, how has the fleet changed since 2015 and which environmental label do they carry?
Road casualties by municipality
How many people are killed or seriously injured in road crashes per resident in each municipality?
EV charging per dwelling
How many public EV charging points does each municipality have per 1,000 dwellings?
Bus
Where do buses run most often, and where does each line run?
Bus frequency
Where do buses run most often?
Bus lines
Which bus lines are there and where do they run?
Rail and metro
Where do trains run most often, how many passengers use each station and where does each line run?
Rail frequency
Where do trains run most often?
Station ridership
How many passengers does each rail station carry?
Metro, rail and tram lines
Which metro, rail and tram lines are there and where do they run?
Streets
Which streets are steepest, and which would carry more people according to the shape of the network?
Street grades
Which streets are uphill?
Through streets
Which sections have the streets most people would pass through, given the shape of the network?
Urban logistics
Where is loading space, how much van demand is there, which logistics parks reach flood zones and where are fuel stations?
Loading zones
Where is kerb space reserved for loading, and how many places?
Vans, trucks and loading by section
How many vans and trucks are registered in each section, and how many loading places do they have?
Business parks and flooding
Which business parks, especially logistics ones, have area inside flood zones?
Fuel stations and diesel price
Where are fuel stations, what diesel price do they declare and which logistics parks are farthest from one?
Parcel lockers and pickup points
Where are parcel lockers and pickup points, and who lives far from a locker?
Electrified vans
How many electrified vans were registered in the last 12 months in each municipality, and how many per 1,000 vans in the fleet?
Trips between municipalities
Where do residents work, and how many trips are there between municipalities on a weekday?
Commuting
Where do residents work, and where do the people who work here live?
Trips between municipalities (mobile phones)
How many trips are there between municipalities on a weekday, at what time and for roughly what purpose?
Estimated trips (mobile phones, MITMA)
How many trips are there between AMB districts on a weekday, in which hour band and for roughly what purpose?
How people get around (EMEF)
How do residents travel between the metropolitan rings: on foot, by public transport or by private vehicle?
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Economy & work
Income
Where is income higher or lower, and where are inequality and poverty risk highest?
Income
Where is income higher or lower?
Income inequality
Where is income inequality highest?
Poverty risk
Where do more residents live below the poverty-risk threshold?
Pension share of income
Where does income rely most on pensions?
Pre-1960 buildings in lower-income sections
Where are pre-1960 buildings in low-income sections?
Retail
How much retail is there, where is it concentrated, which streets have empty premises and how has it changed?
Commerce by municipality
How much commerce does each municipality have per resident, and in which sector?
Retail density
Which Barcelona neighbourhoods or districts have most active premises per km²?
Empty premises
Where are most ground-floor premises without activity?
Retail share
What share of each neighbourhood’s active premises is retail?
Commercial streets
Which streets concentrate the most active or empty premises?
Premises change
Where did premises gain or lose activity between 2022 and 2024?
Economic activity
Which ground-floor premises are active and which are empty?
Markets
Where are the municipal markets?
Unemployment
Where is unemployment highest, and where has it grown or fallen?
Unemployment
Where is the registered unemployment rate highest?
Unemployment change
Where has unemployment grown or fallen in a year?
Work and training
How many jobs are there, in which sectors, how are contracts changing and where do people train?
Jobs
Which municipalities attract workers and which are mainly residential?
Sector specialisation
What is my municipality specialised in?
Registered contracts
What share of initial hiring is indefinite?
Vocational training
What vocational training is offered?
Companies and establishments
Which companies are listed in the municipal directories, which activities hold a licence, and where are the authorised gambling venues?
Companies
Which companies and activities are there, and where?
Licensed activities (GIA)
Which activities with a licence or notification appear in the published municipal censuses, and where are they?
Authorised gambling
Where are the authorised gaming salons, bingo halls and casinos, and how do they relate to Barcelona's hospitality and social profile?
Public investment and spending
Where has the EU co-funded projects, and how much does each council spend and invest per resident?
European public investment (Kohesio)
Where did the EU co-finance projects in the AMB (ERDF 2014-2020), and of what kind?
Municipal finances
How much does each council spend and invest per resident, and on what?
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Industrial-zone sheds: renewal conditions
Which sheds of the economic-activity zones meet the building’s own conditions that make them a place to look first for renewal?
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Climate & environment
Heat
Who lives far from a climate shelter, where is shade lacking, which areas and people are most heat-vulnerable and where does the surface heat up most?
Climate shelters
Who lives far from a climate shelter?
Shade in squares
Which squares and yards have the least shade on a summer afternoon?
Heat vulnerability
Which areas combine more heat-wave exposure with more sensitive people or homes?
Older people alone and heat
Where do many very old residents, often alone and on low incomes, live in hot sections far from a climate shelter?
Observed surface heat
Which sections heat up most at the surface in summer, as seen from the satellite?
Flat roofs on residential buildings from before 1980 (LiDAR)
Which residential buildings from before 1980 have a measured flat roof, where a cool, green or solar roof can be looked at first?
Reference climate 1991–2020
How many tropical nights and hot days does each municipality have on average, and how much rain falls?
Urban green
Where is the green, who has a park nearby, how much tree cover is there, how much soil is sealed and which roofs are green?
Urban green
Where are the parks, green areas and trees?
Park nearby
Who has no park nearby?
Tree canopy
How much of each section’s urbanised land is under tree canopy?
Street trees by section
Which Barcelona sections have more street trees?
Sealed soil
How much of each section is sealed, and where did it grow between 2021 and 2024?
Green roofs
Where is there roof to green where it is hottest?
Air and noise
What air quality do the stations measure, and where is it noisiest?
Air
What air quality do the stations measure today?
Air in the streets
Which streets have the worst air, and has it improved since 2018?
Noise
Where is it noisiest according to the strategic map?
Airport noise at the building
Which buildings lie inside the airport noise contours?
Water and waste
How much is collected separately, where are the recycling points and how much water is used at home?
Waste and separate collection
What share of waste is collected separately and how many kg does each resident generate?
Recycling points
Where are the recycling points?
Domestic water use
How much water does each resident use at home per day, and what does a cubic metre cost in each municipality?
Recycling centres by municipality
How many recycling centres does each municipality have per resident, and how far are they?
Solar energy
What solar potential do rooftops and facility roofs have?
Rooftop solar potential
Which roofs have the most solar potential?
Facility roofs and solar
What modelled solar potential do parcels associated with facilities have?
Donor roofs
Which roofs in the AMB meet the conditions for shared self-consumption with the dwellings nearby?
Solar-ready roofs in sections with higher poverty risk
Where are large solar-ready roofs in sections with a higher poverty risk?
Registered self-consumption
How much photovoltaic self-consumption capacity is registered in each municipality, and how has it grown?
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Risks & emergencies
Flooding
Which areas and buildings lie in flood zones, and where do the rivers and streams run?
Flood zones
What lies inside the official flood zones and how many people live in the affected sections?
Rivers and streams
Where does water run: rivers, streams and canals, and which sections are buried?
River flood zone at the building
Which buildings lie in a river flood zone?
Buildings in flood zones in sections with more older people
Where are buildings in T100 or T10 flood zones in sections with many residents aged 65+?
Floors below ground in a mapped flood zone
Which buildings with floors below ground lie inside a mapped flood zone (T500, T100 or T10)?
Hazard exposure
Who lives exposed to a hazard, and which sensitive facilities have flooding, noise or hazards nearby?
Risk exposure
How many residents, of which ages, live in a flood zone or in sections highly vulnerable to heat?
Sensitive facilities: flooding and noise
Which schools, residences, primary-care centres and hospitals are in a flood zone or in noisy sections?
Facilities: environment and risks
What do flood, heat and shelter-access data show around facilities?
Exposures of the building
How many mapped physical exposures does the building have?
Emergency response
How long do emergency services take to arrive, where are defibrillators, how many interventions do firefighters make and which plans exist?
Emergency response reach (modelled)
How long would a fire engine take, in the model, to reach each section from the nearest station, and how many people are further away?
Defibrillators nearby
How far in a straight line is each building from the nearest registered defibrillator, and which areas are left far away?
Civil protection plans and 112
Which municipalities have up-to-date civil protection plans for the risks that oblige them?
Fire-service interventions
How many urgent interventions do the Generalitat fire service make in each municipality per resident, and of what kind?
Public safety
How many offences do the Mossos record in each police area, and how many incidents does the City Police handle in each neighbourhood?
Public safety
How many offences do the Mossos know of in each police area per 1,000 residents, of what kind, and how are they changing?
City Police incidents and cameras
How many incidents does the City Police handle in each neighbourhood, of which type, and where are municipal cameras?
Industry, transport and earthquakes
Where is the chemical industry, where do dangerous goods travel and what seismic intensity does each municipality have?
Chemical industry (Seveso)
Where are Seveso establishments and which sensitive facilities are nearby?
Dangerous goods
Where do dangerous goods travel, with which hazard level in the TRANSCAT plan, and what is nearby?
Earthquakes: intensity and building stock
What seismic intensity does each municipality have, and how many dwellings predate 1980?
Fires and forest interface
Where are buildings close to forest, what is the fire danger today and which historical fires occurred?
Urban–forest interface
Which built parcels are near mapped forest?
Forest-fire danger today
What forest-fire danger level does each municipality have today and tomorrow, and which fires occurred in 2025 and 2026?
Historical forest fires
Which historical fires and perimeters occur in the work area?
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Buildings & land
Buildings
When were the buildings built, what are they used for and how tall are they?
Building age
When were the buildings built?
Predominant use (Cadastre)
What are the buildings mostly used for?
Building use and period
What is the building stock used for and when was it built?
Heights
Where are the tallest buildings?
Building floors
How many floors does each building have?
Highest floor of the building
Up to how many floors does each building rise?
Gross floor area
How much floor area does each building have?
Condition (Cadastre)
Which buildings are recorded as declined or in ruin in the Cadastre?
Buildings of 7 floors or more in denser sections
Where are buildings of 7 floors or more, and how dense is their section?
Residential buildings aged 45 or more (ITE reference age)
Which residential buildings are 45 years old or more, the age at which the technical building inspection (ITE) applies?
Buildings lower than their surroundings
Which residential buildings are clearly lower than the parcels of their zone around them?
Buildings: energy and renovation
How efficient are the buildings, which ones have rehabilitation conditions and where are works under way?
Energy efficiency
Where are more certified dwellings rated E, F or G?
Energy letter of the certified homes
Which consumption letter prevails in each parcel’s energy certificates?
F or G certificates of the parcel
What share of each parcel’s energy certificates is F or G?
Rehabilitation conditions
Which buildings are residential and predate 1980, and how many energy-poverty criteria does their section meet?
Rehabilitation: the building’s own conditions
Does the building meet its own conditions that make it a place to look first for rehabilitation?
Pre-1980 homes in sections meeting more energy-poverty criteria
Which pre-1980 residential buildings stand in the sections meeting more energy-poverty criteria?
Building works
Where are buildings being built, enlarged or refurbished?
Heritage
Which elements and buildings have heritage protection?
Architectural heritage
Which buildings and elements have recognised heritage value, and in which source?
Air-raid shelters
Where are Barcelona’s Civil War air-raid shelters recorded?
Heritage protection at the building
Which buildings hold a catalogued heritage element?
Activity in the building
Which signs of activity are recorded at each building?
Activity signals at the building
Are there recent signals of works, renovation or activity at the building?
Activity mapped on the parcel (OSM)
How many OSM activity points does each parcel have, and of which families?
Land: use and availability
Which observed land uses and land parcels are recorded?
Agricultural land
Which agricultural uses and DUN declarations occur in the work area?
Land use
What was the land used for in 2016?
Parcels without a building (Cadastre)
Which urban parcels have no building in the Cadastre and how much land do they take?
Buildings: fibre-cement and radon
Where are fibre-cement roofs recorded, and what radon context does each municipality have?
Fibre-cement detection
Where are fibre-cement roof detections concentrated?
Radon: territorial context
Which municipal zoning and territorial radon potential are recorded?
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Planning & opportunities
Activity and productive land
Where does activity concentrate, how has it evolved and how much productive land is gained or lost?
Activity poles
Where are the economic activity poles and what type are they?
Evolution of the poles
When did the AMB activity poles appear and how have they grown since 1965?
Business parks
Where are the business parks and how occupied are they?
Productive land balance
How much economic-activity land would be converted and how much is gained, by municipality and corridor?
Knowledge
What connects campuses and research with industry and the city?
Campuses and surroundings
What connects the campuses and research centres with industry and the city around them?
Knowledge network
Who produces scientific knowledge in the AMB, and with whom?
EU research projects
Which organisations run EU R&D&I projects, and who do they work with?
Research centres
Where are the research centres?
Detect opportunities
Where is land planned to grow or transform, new centralities and station areas with potential?
Opportunity detector
Where are there opportunity signals, which constraints weigh on them, and what should be prepared to plan them well?
Transformation areas
Which land is planned to grow or transform, which activity land could change, and with what risks?
New centralities
Where are today’s centralities, where does the PDU propose new ones and which have the ingredients to take hold?
Station-area potential
Which station areas are well served but under-used, and where does planning already foresee growth?
Well-connected vacant land
Where are unbuilt urban parcels close to rail, with daily services and no flood risk, where housing pressure is high?
Planning
What does planning say for each zone and each building, which plans are in process and which equipment land has no facility?
Zoning
What is the approved zoning here?
Harmonised zoning (MUC)
What harmonised zoning does this area have and how many hectares does each kind of land take?
Equipment land without a catalogued facility
Where is there equipment land with no catalogued facility?
Plans in progress and approved
Which planning files affect this area: which are approved and which are in progress?
Zoning at the building (AMB consolidated plan)
What zoning does each building stand in?
Land classification at the building (AMB consolidated plan)
Which land class does each building stand on?
Buildings inside an approved planning ambit
Which buildings are inside the ambit of an approved file, and from which year is the latest?
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