Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, December 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 December 2025, at 274,907. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,470. The median was 29,325 and the figure for Spain was 2.4 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest274,907Madrid province

Lowest2,470Soria province

Median29,32552 provinces

Spain2,404,907History

All provinces, December 2025

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	December 2025 persons	Change on December 2024
1	Madrid province Estimated	274,907	-3.2%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	240,446	-3.1%
3	Seville province	142,010	-7.6%
4	Valencia province Estimated	139,708	-9.1%
5	Alicante province Estimated	118,825	-6.9%
6	Cádiz province	111,406	-8.1%
7	Málaga province	109,875	-7.7%
8	Las Palmas province	75,662	-6.4%
9	Murcia province	73,481	-6.9%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	70,631	-6.5%
11	Granada province Estimated	65,434	-7.4%
12	Biscay province Estimated	60,470	-0.2%
13	Asturias province Estimated	51,193	-3.7%
14	Córdoba province	49,068	-9.7%
15	A Coruña province	44,469	-4.9%
16	Toledo province Estimated	43,802	-8.3%
17	Pontevedra province	42,800	-7%
18	Almería province Estimated	42,337	-8.1%
19	Badajoz province	42,037	-8%
20	Tarragona province Estimated	38,353	-4%
21	Zaragoza province Estimated	37,740	-4.1%
22	Jaén province	32,526	-9.1%
23	Castellón province Estimated	31,307	-7.8%
24	Ciudad Real province Estimated	30,944	-9.6%
25	Huelva province	30,390	-10.8%
26	Navarre province Estimated	29,350	-2.9%
27	Balearic Islands province Estimated	29,299	-3%
28	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,619	+0.8%
29	Girona province Estimated	28,449	-6.4%
30	Cantabria province Estimated	27,895	-5.2%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	22,317	-8.6%
32	Valladolid province Estimated	21,395	-3.3%
33	Albacete province Estimated	21,011	-10.5%
34	León province Estimated	20,621	-5.2%
35	Álava province Estimated	18,323	-0.1%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	15,881	-7.3%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,643	-4.2%
38	Ourense province	13,547	-4.9%
39	Burgos province Estimated	13,090	-5.5%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	12,174	-2%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,771	-5.2%
42	Lugo province	11,215	-5%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	8,854	-6%
44	Ceuta province	8,760	-7.6%
45	Zamora province Estimated	8,045	-7%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,927	-6.1%
47	Melilla province	7,671	-10%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,170	-6.6%
49	Palencia province Estimated	6,116	-1.7%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,563	-5.5%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,910	-6.4%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,470	-3.8%

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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 274,907 in December 2025, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,470 in December 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.