Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, October 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 October 2025, at 280,318. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,364. The median was 28,658 and the figure for Spain was 2.44 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest280,318Madrid province

Lowest2,364Soria province

Median28,65852 provinces

Spain2,440,151History

All provinces, October 2025

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	October 2025 persons	Change on October 2024
1	Madrid province Estimated	280,318	-4%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	241,874	-2.4%
3	Seville province	146,085	-7%
4	Valencia province Estimated	142,974	-6.5%
5	Alicante province Estimated	119,232	-6.2%
6	Cádiz province	113,777	-7.7%
7	Málaga province Estimated	110,347	-8%
8	Las Palmas province	76,368	-7.2%
9	Murcia province	75,302	-6%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	71,311	-7.6%
11	Granada province	68,559	-6.6%
12	Biscay province Estimated	60,917	-0.6%
13	Córdoba province	52,384	-9.1%
14	Asturias province	50,889	-7.5%
15	A Coruña province	44,970	-6.4%
16	Toledo province Estimated	44,310	-7.9%
17	Almería province Estimated	43,625	-10.2%
18	Pontevedra province	43,396	-8%
19	Badajoz province	43,324	-9.9%
20	Tarragona province Estimated	38,057	-4.6%
21	Zaragoza province Estimated	37,943	-5.9%
22	Jaén province	35,995	-10.4%
23	Castellón province Estimated	32,478	-6.8%
24	Huelva province	31,476	-9.6%
25	Ciudad Real province Estimated	31,346	-9.2%
26	Navarre province Estimated	28,803	-3.8%
27	Girona province Estimated	28,512	-5.6%
28	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,327	-1.2%
29	Cantabria province Estimated	27,826	-5.6%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	27,679	-6.1%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	22,274	-9.8%
32	Albacete province Estimated	21,351	-10.2%
33	Valladolid province Estimated	21,241	-2.8%
34	León province Estimated	20,016	-5.4%
35	Álava province Estimated	18,331	-0.9%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	15,924	-6.6%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,710	-5%
38	Ourense province	13,775	-7.8%
39	Burgos province Estimated	12,950	-4.5%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	11,961	-3.6%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,953	-5.5%
42	Lugo province	11,245	-7.1%
43	Ceuta province	9,502	-8.2%
44	Cuenca province Estimated	8,760	-8.3%
45	Ávila province Estimated	7,978	-4.5%
46	Zamora province Estimated	7,909	-7.5%
47	Melilla province	7,882	-11.1%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,378	-8.6%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,989	+1.7%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,386	-6.4%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,868	-6.3%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,364	-2.2%

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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.

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Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 280,318 in October 2025, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,364 in October 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.