Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, May 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 May 2026, at 272,518. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,464. The median was 27,352 and the figure for Spain was 2.32 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest272,518Madrid province

Lowest2,464Soria province

Median27,35252 provinces

Spain2,317,013History

All provinces, May 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	May 2026 persons	Change on May 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	272,518	-3.1%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	230,945	-3.5%
3	Valencia province Estimated	138,049	-4.4%
4	Seville province	134,838	-8.1%
5	Alicante province Estimated	114,476	-5%
6	Cádiz province	102,987	-9.8%
7	Málaga province	102,207	-9.2%
8	Las Palmas province	74,448	-5.7%
9	Murcia province	72,501	-5.1%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	70,150	-4.1%
11	Granada province Estimated	62,186	-9%
12	Biscay province Estimated	58,701	-0.1%
13	Asturias province Estimated	49,316	-4.7%
14	Córdoba province	46,742	-11.1%
15	Toledo province Estimated	43,515	-5.9%
16	A Coruña province	43,396	-1.4%
17	Pontevedra province	41,377	-4.3%
18	Almería province Estimated	40,612	-9.4%
19	Badajoz province	40,238	-10.6%
20	Zaragoza province Estimated	37,150	-3.6%
21	Tarragona province Estimated	35,508	-3.8%
22	Jaén province	31,627	-11.7%
23	Castellón province Estimated	31,487	-3.3%
24	Ciudad Real province Estimated	30,479	-7.5%
25	Navarre province Estimated	28,124	-2.3%
26	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	27,445	-1%
27	Cantabria province Estimated	27,258	-2.2%
28	Huelva province	26,908	-12.6%
29	Girona province Estimated	26,058	-5.9%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	23,602	-6.9%
31	Cáceres province Estimated	21,287	-9.8%
32	Albacete province Estimated	20,552	-8%
33	Valladolid province Estimated	20,527	-3.6%
34	León province Estimated	19,771	-4.8%
35	Álava province Estimated	17,550	-3.4%
36	Salamanca province Estimated	14,997	-7.5%
37	Lleida province Estimated	14,755	-3.3%
38	Ourense province	13,453	-0.5%
39	Burgos province Estimated	12,032	-5.7%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	11,854	-0.5%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,724	-4.3%
42	Lugo province	11,129	+2.8%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	8,719	-2.8%
44	Ceuta province	8,495	-7.1%
45	Zamora province Estimated	7,902	-1.4%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,713	-4.6%
47	Melilla province	7,242	-9.8%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,257	-1.6%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,703	-2.6%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,227	-6.4%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,812	+0.7%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,464	+2.9%

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 272,518 in May 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,464 in May 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.