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Neighborhood

el Poble-sec

El Poble-sec began growing beyond Barcelona’s old walls in the mid-nineteenth century, before the Eixample became the city’s defining expansion. [1]

Life in the area

Local character and landmarks

Its position at the foot of Montjuïc connects dense neighborhood streets with the hillside landscape above them. [1]

Sources and review date
  1. Poble-sec · Turisme de BarcelonaChecked:

The area in numbers

Latest available observations; each indicator has its own reporting period.

Crime

Reported crime

95per 1,000 residents

District: Sants-Montjuïc

Period: Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

+5.5% vs Barcelona

Barcelona: 90
Sources and methodology

Available at district level, not measured separately for this neighborhood.

Shown as a count per 1,000 residents.

Mossos d'Esquadra

Theft
41.1
Robbery with violence
8.1
Burglary
4.2
Vehicle crime
7
Assault
5.3

Income

Disposable household income

€20,780per person / year

Period: 2023

-20.3% vs Barcelona

Barcelona: €26,069
Sources and methodology

Ajuntament de Barcelona

Renda disponible de les llars per càpita

Rent

€947per month

Rental prices · registered contracts

Period: Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

-17.4% vs Barcelona

Barcelona: €1,147

€17.2 per m² / month

Contracts in 12 months: 806

Sources and methodology

INCASOL

Contractual rents, not listing asking prices. The rolling value is weighted by registered contracts.

Buy

€5,116per m² · used homes

Purchase prices · registered used-home sales

Period: Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

+4.8% vs Barcelona

Barcelona: €4,879

Transactions in 12 months: 548

Sources and methodology

REGISTRADORES

Registered used-home transactions, not listing asking prices.

Tourists

Buildings with high or very high modeled tourist pressure

Residential buildings84.3%1,213 of 1,439 buildings with data
Sources and methodology

Tourist pressure classes use the existing Barcelona residential/mixed-building reference, not a ranking within this area. They model registered accommodation and proximity to activity areas, not measured visitors or noise.

Residential and mixed-use buildings are shown separately.

Model from map release barcelona-seo-reviewed-20261016.

ICAEN energy certificates

Barcelona tourist pressure model

Catastro bulk CAT — construction observations

Administrative boundaries

Catastro bulk CAT — construction observations

Safety

Local safety incidents

63.2per 1,000 residents

Period: 2025

+43.3% vs Barcelona

Barcelona: 44.1

Perceived insecurity

32%

Period: 2025

Modeled share of residents who feel their neighborhood is unsafe, based on survey data.
Sources and methodology

Police-managed safety and public-order incidents; this is not a crime count.

Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona

Institut Metròpoli

2025 study; model inputs 2022-2024

Age structure

Median age

41 years

Period: 2026

Barcelona: 43 years
Ageel Poble-secBarcelona
<1811.7%13.4%
18–247.1%7.4%
25–4437.6%31.3%
45–6427.2%26.8%
65+16.6%21%
Sources and methodology

Ajuntament de Barcelona · Oficina Municipal de Dades

Published cells below five residents are suppressed by the source and excluded from calculated totals.

Buildings in el Poble-sec

Residential buildings · 1,439

Median recorded construction year
1930Known for 1439 of 1439 buildings in this group.
Median above-ground levels
7Known for 1438 of 1439 buildings in this group.
Recorded construction periods
PeriodBuildingsShare of known years
Before 194094765.8%
1940–197936425.3%
1980–1999795.5%
2000–2009332.3%
2010 and later161.1%

Renovation records are linked to 105 of 1439 buildings in this group.

Energy evidence in this group of 1439: whole-building class for 277; unit-certificate median class for 950.

High or very high modeled tourist pressure: 1213 of 1439 buildings with data (1439 in this group).

Mixed-use buildings · 19

At least 20 buildings are needed in this group.

Sources, coverage and calculation

The published sample contains 1636 buildings. Residential and mixed-use buildings are shown separately; 178 other or unclassified buildings are outside these groups.

All buildings assigned to this area in the published release are included, even without indexable pages. This is not a census of every building in the area. Groups use the recorded use classification.

Missing renovation records do not establish that no works took place. Records may cover only part of a building. Construction years can be approximate.

Unit certificate statistics do not certify the whole building; coverage varies. Missing records do not prove that a certificate does not exist.

Tourist pressure classes use the existing Barcelona residential/mixed-building reference, not a ranking within this area. They model registered accommodation and proximity to activity areas, not measured visitors or noise.

Medians and period shares need at least 20 known values. Above-ground levels include the ground floor.

Data release: barcelona-seo-reviewed-20261016 · territory-buildings-v1

Buildings with pages

Map release: barcelona-seo-reviewed-20261016