Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, July 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 July 2026, at 273,612. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,438. The median was 27,392 and the figure for Spain was 2.31 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest273,612Madrid province

Lowest2,438Soria province

Median27,39252 provinces

Spain2,307,681History

All provinces, July 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	July 2026 persons	Change on July 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	273,612	-0.8%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	236,625	-1.3%
3	Valencia province Estimated	142,139	-1.7%
4	Seville province	131,385	-9.5%
5	Alicante province Estimated	114,992	-2.3%
6	Málaga province	97,504	-10.4%
7	Cádiz province	95,575	-12.2%
8	Las Palmas province	74,871	-5.1%
9	Murcia province	73,988	-0.4%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	69,297	-4%
11	Granada province	60,760	-8.9%
12	Biscay province Estimated	59,780	+0.7%
13	Asturias province	48,304	-0.2%
14	Córdoba province	45,277	-12.8%
15	Toledo province Estimated	42,982	-2.6%
16	A Coruña province	42,680	-0.1%
17	Pontevedra province	40,518	-2.5%
18	Almería province Estimated	39,379	-9.7%
19	Badajoz province Estimated	39,228	-8.9%
20	Zaragoza province Estimated	38,321	+0.7%
21	Tarragona province Estimated	36,274	-1.6%
22	Castellón province Estimated	31,456	-0.4%
23	Ciudad Real province Estimated	30,411	-3%
24	Jaén province	30,280	-13.4%
25	Navarre province Estimated	28,670	+1%
26	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,092	+1.4%
27	Huelva province	26,692	-13.4%
28	Cantabria province Estimated	26,354	-2.3%
29	Girona province Estimated	26,103	-4.2%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	24,878	-2%
31	Valladolid province Estimated	21,120	-0.4%
32	Albacete province Estimated	20,513	-3%
33	Cáceres province Estimated	20,512	-5.6%
34	León province Estimated	19,280	-2.4%
35	Álava province Estimated	17,664	-1.2%
36	Lleida province Estimated	15,525	+2.1%
37	Salamanca province Estimated	14,902	-2.7%
38	Ourense province	13,315	+1.7%
39	La Rioja province Estimated	12,285	+2.2%
40	Burgos province Estimated	12,141	-0.5%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	11,803	+0.1%
42	Lugo province	10,809	+3.4%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	8,514	+2.7%
44	Ceuta province	8,389	-9.2%
45	Zamora province Estimated	7,420	-1.1%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,298	-2.2%
47	Melilla province	7,200	-5.7%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,461	+6.8%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,693	-0.2%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,112	-3.2%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,860	+4.3%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,438	+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_2026_csv.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

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Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 273,612 in July 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,438 in July 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.