# Provinces of Spain by active enterprises, 2023

All 49 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `active_enterprises`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/spain-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Madrid province | 553,293 |
| 2 | Barcelona province | 489,832 |
| 3 | Valencia province | 196,322 |
| 4 | Alicante province | 153,279 |
| 5 | Málaga province | 150,217 |
| 6 | Seville province | 129,432 |
| 7 | Murcia province | 99,842 |
| 8 | A Coruña province | 81,448 |
| 9 | Biscay province | 76,366 |
| 10 | Pontevedra province | 69,834 |
| 11 | Cádiz province | 69,086 |
| 12 | Asturias province | 68,999 |
| 13 | Girona province | 67,916 |
| 14 | Granada province | 65,018 |
| 15 | Zaragoza province | 63,677 |
| 16 | Tarragona province | 57,280 |
| 17 | Córdoba province | 49,913 |
| 18 | Gipuzkoa province | 49,652 |
| 19 | Toledo province | 47,358 |
| 20 | Almería province | 47,029 |
| 21 | Navarre province | 43,783 |
| 22 | Badajoz province | 42,263 |
| 23 | Castellón province | 42,255 |
| 24 | Cantabria province | 40,384 |
| 25 | Jaén province | 36,409 |
| 26 | Lleida province | 33,954 |
| 27 | Valladolid province | 32,860 |
| 28 | Ciudad Real province | 30,354 |
| 29 | León province | 29,732 |
| 30 | Huelva province | 27,665 |
| 31 | Albacete province | 26,533 |
| 32 | Cáceres province | 25,647 |
| 33 | Lugo province | 23,681 |
| 34 | Burgos province | 22,997 |
| 35 | La Rioja province | 22,502 |
| 36 | Ourense province | 22,265 |
| 37 | Salamanca province | 21,765 |
| 38 | Álava province | 18,794 |
| 39 | Huesca province | 16,148 |
| 40 | Guadalajara province | 14,569 |
| 41 | Cuenca province | 13,584 |
| 42 | Segovia province | 11,050 |
| 43 | Zamora province | 10,953 |
| 44 | Ávila province | 10,287 |
| 45 | Palencia province | 9,341 |
| 46 | Teruel province | 9,140 |
| 47 | Soria province | 5,755 |
| 48 | Melilla province | 4,751 |
| 49 | Ceuta province | 3,550 |