Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, January 2026
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 January 2026, at 278,570. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,502. The median was 29,246 and the figure for Spain was 2.44 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest278,570Madrid province

Lowest2,502Soria province

Median29,24652 provinces

Spain2,435,437History

All provinces, January 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	January 2026 persons	Change on January 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	278,570	-3.1%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	241,555	-3.2%
3	Seville province	144,390	-8.1%
4	Valencia province Estimated	141,080	-9.6%
5	Alicante province Estimated	118,938	-7.2%
6	Cádiz province	112,551	-8.5%
7	Málaga province	110,925	-8.7%
8	Las Palmas province	75,673	-6.6%
9	Murcia province	74,832	-6.5%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	70,733	-6.4%
11	Granada province Estimated	66,765	-7.3%
12	Biscay province	61,025	-1.2%
13	Asturias province Estimated	52,839	-4.6%
14	Córdoba province	50,026	-9.8%
15	A Coruña province	45,561	-5%
16	Toledo province Estimated	44,772	-7.6%
17	Pontevedra province	43,863	-6.6%
18	Badajoz province Estimated	43,199	-9%
19	Almería province Estimated	42,515	-9.5%
20	Tarragona province Estimated	38,838	-3.1%
21	Zaragoza province Estimated	38,550	-5.2%
22	Jaén province	33,232	-9.5%
23	Castellón province Estimated	31,624	-7.6%
24	Ciudad Real province Estimated	31,606	-8.9%
25	Huelva province	30,684	-9.9%
26	Navarre province Estimated	29,484	-3.4%
27	Cantabria province Estimated	29,008	-4.1%
28	Girona province Estimated	28,766	-5.2%
29	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,586	-1.2%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	28,042	-5.1%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	23,092	-9.1%
32	Valladolid province Estimated	21,552	-4.8%
33	Albacete province Estimated	21,457	-11.2%
34	León province Estimated	21,155	-6.1%
35	Álava province Estimated	18,495	-0.8%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	16,424	-7.3%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,721	-4.7%
38	Ourense province	14,057	-2.3%
39	Burgos province Estimated	13,365	-4.8%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	12,319	-2%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	12,162	-5.8%
42	Lugo province	11,663	-3%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	9,108	-6.6%
44	Ceuta province	8,870	-4.2%
45	Zamora province Estimated	8,291	-6.4%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,981	-8%
47	Melilla province	7,661	-11.8%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,437	-7.5%
49	Palencia province Estimated	6,236	-2.6%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,650	-3.8%
51	Teruel province Estimated	4,007	-10.4%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,502	-6.9%

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_2026_csv.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

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Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 278,570 in January 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,502 in January 2026.

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.