Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, September 2025
Creator: Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal
License: Spanish public sector information reuse (Ley 37/2007, attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest registered unemployment of 52 provinces in September 2025, at 278,039. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,270. The median was 28,275 and the figure for Spain was 2.42 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest278,039Madrid province

Lowest2,270Soria province

Median28,27552 provinces

Spain2,417,977History

All provinces, September 2025

CSV Chart (SVG)

persons. Source: SEPE. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	September 2025 persons	Change on September 2024
1	Madrid province Estimated	278,039	-4.7%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	240,934	-2.5%
3	Seville province	146,150	-6.3%
4	Valencia province Estimated	143,930	-6.4%
5	Alicante province Estimated	118,075	-6.2%
6	Cádiz province	112,577	-7.2%
7	Málaga province Estimated	109,362	-7%
8	Las Palmas province	75,565	-8.2%
9	Murcia province	74,832	-5.3%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	69,808	-8.6%
11	Granada province	67,969	-5.6%
12	Biscay province Estimated	60,296	-1.8%
13	Córdoba province	52,672	-8.4%
14	Asturias province Estimated	49,513	-8%
15	A Coruña province	44,849	-6.2%
16	Almería province Estimated	43,883	-9.6%
17	Toledo province Estimated	43,808	-5.6%
18	Pontevedra province	43,255	-7.3%
19	Badajoz province	42,959	-10.1%
20	Tarragona province Estimated	37,493	-3.7%
21	Zaragoza province Estimated	37,318	-5.8%
22	Jaén province	35,760	-10.1%
23	Castellón province Estimated	31,951	-8.3%
24	Huelva province	31,335	-8.5%
25	Ciudad Real province Estimated	31,185	-7.7%
26	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,324	-0.4%
27	Navarre province Estimated	28,226	-4.2%
28	Girona province Estimated	27,869	-5.1%
29	Cantabria province Estimated	27,266	-5.7%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	26,049	-6.8%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	22,202	-10.1%
32	Albacete province Estimated	21,083	-8.5%
33	Valladolid province Estimated	20,750	-4.4%
34	León province Estimated	19,713	-5.4%
35	Álava province Estimated	18,300	+0.9%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	15,639	-7%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,430	-4.8%
38	Ourense province	13,902	-5.4%
39	Burgos province Estimated	12,407	-5.6%
40	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,760	-4.5%
41	La Rioja province Estimated	11,653	-4.6%
42	Lugo province	11,079	-6.4%
43	Ceuta province	9,319	-8.4%
44	Cuenca province Estimated	8,458	-8.1%
45	Zamora province Estimated	7,757	-6.9%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,666	-5.5%
47	Melilla province	7,463	-14.6%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,196	-8.6%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,751	-0.2%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,221	-5.7%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,706	-4.6%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,270	-3.5%

Other periods

About this ranking

Job seekers registered as unemployed at public employment offices on the last working day of the month.

Administrative count, available down to municipality. Not the survey-based unemployment rate.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the provinces are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE). Paro registrado por municipios. https://sede.sepe.gob.es/es/portaltrabaja/resources/sede/datos_abiertos/datos/Paro_por_municipios_2025_csv.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

Rank Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment using official data, and cite the source.

rank_places {"indicator":"registered_unemployment","level":"province","within":"Spain","limit":10}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=registered_unemployment&level=province&within=Spain&limit=10

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 278,039 in September 2025, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,270 in September 2025.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal, Paro registrado por municipios. Retrieved 2026-10-08.