Recorded crime by municipality, 12 months to Q2 2026

The Interior Ministry's Balance de Criminalidad publishes offences recorded by the police in municipalities with more than twenty thousand inhabitants and in provincial capitals, as totals accumulated from January to the end of each quarter. To compare towns over a full year, we use the latest twelve months: this year's total to date, plus last year's full-year total, minus last year's total to the same quarter. At the end of the year it is simply the annual total. If last year's figures are missing, there is no value.

We then give two rates per thousand people. The first divides by registered residents (the Padrón). The second divides by residents plus the people staying in tourist flats, estimated as tourist-let beds times the province's average occupancy of tourist flats over the same months. In resort towns the second rate is closer to the number of people actually present. If occupancy data is missing for those months, only the first rate is shown.

Recorded crime depends on how often people report and on police activity, not only on how much crime there is.

A zone or province figure combines the values of its municipalities that have data, weighted by population, and states how many of them have the figure. When an agency publishes a value directly for the province, we use the published value and say so. A combined figure describes the area as a whole; towns within it can differ a lot, and their own pages show it.