Methodology and sources
Where OpenUrbe's data comes from, how often it updates, and what we do not claim.
Where the data comes from
Figures come from two official Barcelona City Council portals: Open Data BCN (population) and Portaldades (rent and purchase prices, tourist housing and crime), and from the National Statistics Institute (income per person, its household income atlas). Own elaboration with data extracted from the INE website: www.ine.es. We use no property-listing data and no estimates of our own.
What each figure means
Rent is the average monthly price of contracts whose deposit was lodged with INCASÒL. Purchase price is the average price of registered sales of second-hand homes. Income is average net income per resident, after income tax and social contributions. Tourist housing is homes holding a tourist-use licence on 31 December. Offences are incidents known to the police.
Why the median
Next to a figure we show the median area: the middle one of the neighbourhoods (or districts) that have a figure, so half are above it and half below. It is not a city average, so one very expensive or very large area cannot pull it. It is shown only when at least 60% of the areas have a figure. Counts, such as residents, offences or tourist flats, are never compared with the median, because they mostly measure how big an area is.
Coverage
Not every neighbourhood has data for every indicator. Where a figure does not exist the page omits it: we never substitute a zero or an estimate for a missing value. Rankings always state how many territories with data they are computed over.
Updates
Pages are regenerated periodically from the source. Each page's update date says when it was last recalculated.
What we do not do
We do not recommend neighbourhoods, score liveability, or publish user reviews. OpenUrbe shows the official figure and where it came from; the judgement is the reader's.
- Open Data BCN: opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat
- Portaldades (Barcelona City Council): portaldades.ajuntament.barcelona.cat
- INE (National Statistics Institute): ine.es