Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, February 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 February 2026, at 282,256. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,579. The median was 29,563 and the figure for Spain was 2.44 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest282,256Madrid province

Lowest2,579Soria province

Median29,56352 provinces

Spain2,438,945History

All provinces, February 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	February 2026 persons	Change on February 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	282,256	-3.2%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	243,582	-1.8%
3	Seville province	144,076	-7.9%
4	Valencia province Estimated	140,535	-8%
5	Alicante province Estimated	118,253	-6.3%
6	Cádiz province	111,662	-8.7%
7	Málaga province	110,430	-8.8%
8	Murcia province	75,314	-6.5%
9	Las Palmas province	75,122	-7.8%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	70,534	-7.7%
11	Granada province Estimated	66,742	-7.3%
12	Biscay province	60,280	-1.6%
13	Asturias province Estimated	52,238	-4.9%
14	Córdoba province	49,708	-10.3%
15	A Coruña province	45,703	-4.6%
16	Toledo province Estimated	45,122	-8.1%
17	Pontevedra province	44,400	-4.8%
18	Badajoz province Estimated	43,359	-9.2%
19	Almería province Estimated	42,554	-8.8%
20	Zaragoza province Estimated	39,137	-3.7%
21	Tarragona province Estimated	38,849	-2.3%
22	Jaén province	33,258	-11%
23	Ciudad Real province Estimated	31,771	-8.5%
24	Castellón province Estimated	31,728	-5.4%
25	Huelva province	30,030	-9.8%
26	Navarre province Estimated	29,742	-2.6%
27	Cantabria province	29,384	-2%
28	Girona province Estimated	28,638	-5%
29	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,403	-0.7%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	27,335	-7%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	23,093	-9%
32	Valladolid province Estimated	21,861	-3.5%
33	Albacete province Estimated	21,548	-10.1%
34	León province Estimated	21,154	-5.9%
35	Álava province Estimated	18,267	-1.6%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	16,562	-6.3%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,853	-2%
38	Ourense province	14,172	-1.7%
39	Burgos province Estimated	13,211	-5.2%
40	Guadalajara province Estimated	12,560	-4.8%
41	La Rioja province Estimated	12,375	-2%
42	Lugo province	11,783	-1.8%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	9,161	-6.2%
44	Ceuta province	8,912	-2%
45	Zamora province Estimated	8,445	-4.8%
46	Ávila province Estimated	8,103	-6.7%
47	Melilla province	7,560	-14.7%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,637	-4.8%
49	Palencia province Estimated	6,371	+0.6%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,607	-6%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,986	-7.6%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,579	-4%

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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_2026_csv.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

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Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 282,256 in February 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,579 in February 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.