Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, April 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 April 2026, at 276,351. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,573. The median was 27,652 and the figure for Spain was 2.35 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest276,351Madrid province

Lowest2,573Soria province

Median27,65252 provinces

Spain2,353,334History

All provinces, April 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	April 2026 persons	Change on April 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	276,351	-4.5%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	235,779	-3%
3	Valencia province Estimated	138,743	-5.5%
4	Seville province	136,312	-9.1%
5	Alicante province Estimated	115,707	-5.7%
6	Cádiz province	105,083	-10.6%
7	Málaga province	104,415	-9.6%
8	Las Palmas province	74,845	-6.4%
9	Murcia province	73,302	-6.2%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	70,516	-5.5%
11	Granada province Estimated	63,210	-8.8%
12	Biscay province	58,659	-2.2%
13	Asturias province Estimated	50,477	-4.7%
14	Córdoba province	47,522	-11.2%
15	A Coruña province	44,250	-2.5%
16	Toledo province Estimated	44,175	-7.9%
17	Pontevedra province	42,786	-4.3%
18	Almería province Estimated	41,247	-9.4%
19	Badajoz province	40,980	-11.2%
20	Zaragoza province Estimated	37,793	-4.2%
21	Tarragona province Estimated	36,454	-4%
22	Jaén province	32,127	-12.1%
23	Castellón province Estimated	31,202	-4.8%
24	Ciudad Real province Estimated	30,730	-8.9%
25	Navarre province Estimated	28,744	-2%
26	Cantabria province Estimated	27,914	-2.9%
27	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	27,389	-2.9%
28	Huelva province Estimated	27,311	-12.2%
29	Girona province Estimated	26,751	-6%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	24,539	-7.8%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	21,880	-10.7%
32	Albacete province Estimated	20,933	-9.8%
33	Valladolid province Estimated	20,913	-4.3%
34	León province Estimated	20,146	-5.9%
35	Álava province Estimated	17,718	-4.6%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	15,537	-7%
37	Lleida province Estimated	15,217	-3.8%
38	Ourense province	13,926	-1.2%
39	Burgos province Estimated	12,344	-5.7%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	12,024	-2.4%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,989	-6.3%
42	Lugo province	11,331	-0%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	8,845	-3.9%
44	Ceuta province	8,666	-6%
45	Zamora province Estimated	8,193	-3.4%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,994	-4.5%
47	Melilla province	7,432	-10%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,322	-2.9%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,863	-4.4%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,386	-5.8%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,789	-1.4%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,573	+2.6%

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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 276,351 in April 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,573 in April 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.