Who lives where in Barcelona
1,727,338 residents by nationality, 1 January 2026. One dot ≈ 6 people, placed at random inside each of 1,068 census sections (seccions censals). The Spanish nationality group starts hidden so the minorities stand out — click any group to show or hide it, and hover an area for its official counts.
What the colours mean
Nationality. Groups are citizenship from the municipal register, not birthplace. Many Latin Americans naturalise quickly in Spain, so they appear as Spanish here.
- Spanish nationality1,269,252 · 73.5%
Spanish citizens, including naturalised Spaniards and dual nationals.
- Other EU123,076 · 7.1%
Citizens of the other 26 EU states (Italy, France, Germany, Romania…).
- Rest of Europe36,802 · 2.1%
European citizenships outside the EU (UK, Ukraine, Russia…).
- Africa32,028 · 1.9%
African citizenships — mostly Moroccan in Barcelona.
- Americas158,423 · 9.2%
Every country in the Americas — mostly Latin America.
- Asia107,686 · 6.2%
Asian citizenships: Pakistan, China, the Philippines, India…
- Oceania71 · 0.0%
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
What is exact and what is not
- Exact: how many people of each group live in each of the 1,068 census sections (seccions censals), as published by the source below. The Exact areas view and the hover numbers show these figures directly.
- Not exact: where a dot sits inside its census section. Dots are scattered at random within the area's boundary — including over parks, railways or water inside it — so a dot never marks a real home, and a pattern smaller than one census section is not in the data.
- Rounded: each count becomes count ÷ 6 dots, rounded up or down at random, so very small groups in an area can show one dot more or fewer than the exact figure would give.
Source and method
Counts: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oficina Municipal de Dades (Padró Municipal d'Habitants) — Population by continent of nationality and sex; by nationality (Spain/EU/rest) — 2026.
Boundaries: Administrative units of Barcelona: census sections.
Method: Spanish and other-EU come from the Spain/EU/rest table; Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania from the continent table; rest of Europe = Europe − Spain − other EU. The city suppresses very small cells, which are left out. Each area's count for each group becomes count ÷ 6 dots (rounded up or down at random, so totals are right on average), scattered uniformly inside the area — a dot's exact position means nothing, only the area does. 287,892 dots in all. Map style after Karim Douïeb's Brussels. A lovely Melting-Pot.