Barcelona, Spain
Public transport, airport and rail connections, healthcare access and car ownership — each figure linked to the official publication it came from.
14 of 18 fields sourced from official publications, 4 not yet sourced. Every figure links to the body that published it and the period it describes. Where we don't have something, we say so rather than estimating.
✈️ Getting out
How far this place is from everywhere else — the thing most cost-of-living comparisons leave out.
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat · BCN
Nonstop destinations
222 nonstop destinationsOfficial statistic
AENA — Barcelona-El Prat, destinations · 2026 · city figure
Long-haul nonstop service
YesOfficial statistic
AENA — Barcelona-El Prat, destinations · 2026 · city figure
Fastest rail to the capital
2 h 30 minOfficial statistic
Renfe — Sala de prensa · February 2024 · national figure
🏥 Healthcare access
Region: Catalunya (CatSalut)
Primary-care waiting time
Not sourced yetAQuAS publishes a Central de Resultats for Catalan primary care, but a specific primary-care appointment waiting-time figure was not isolated.
Obtaining a Targeta Sanitària Individual (CatSalut)Official step
- CatSalut states the application is made in person at the assigned CAP (Centre d'Atenció Primària) using a TSI request form.
- The published requirement lists an identity document: DNI, NIE or passport.
- The published requirement lists a municipal registration certificate (certificat d'empadronament) dated less than three months before application, or authorisation for CatSalut to verify it with other administrations.
- Where the applicant is a Social Security affiliate, the published requirement lists a photocopy of the affiliation document.
- CatSalut states the card is mailed free of charge to the applicant's home address once processed.
These are specialist and surgical waits. Primary-care waiting time is devolved to the regions and is published inconsistently — see each city below.
🚇 Getting around
Operators: TMB — Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona · FGC · Rodalies de Catalunya (Renfe)
Single journey
€2.90Official statistic
TMB — Barcelona fares, metro & bus · 15 January 2026 · city figure
Monthly pass
€22.80Official statistic
Price reflects a discount applied under a Real Decreto subsidy; check current status before relying on it.
TMB — Barcelona fares, metro & bus · 15 January 2026 · city figure
🚗 Living without a car
Reported behaviour from official statistics — not a walkability score.
Households with no car
39.4 % of households with no vehicleComputed
Computed from 250,260 zero-vehicle households of 635,685 total in the Barcelona municipality row.
INE — ECEPOV 2021, households by number of vehicles · 2021 · city figure
Commutes made by car
37.03 % of commutes by carOfficial statistic
Flagged 'estimated' by Eurostat.
Eurostat — Urban Audit (urb_ctran, TT1003V) · 2011 · city figure
📍 Neighbourhoods
Official statistics at the level each figure is actually reported. No verdicts on what an area is like.
el Ravalneighbourhood figure
Population
50,863 residentsComputed
Summed from 21 census sections in the municipal padró microdata; not a pre-published aggregate. Spot-check against an official published total before relying on it.
Ajuntament de Barcelona Open Data — Padró municipal d'habitants (pad_mdbas_sexe) · 1 January 2026 · neighbourhood figure
Household income
Not sourced yetINE Atlas district income not retrieved; Idescat provides municipality-level totals only.
la Barcelonetaneighbourhood figure
Population
14,665 residentsComputed
Summed from 11 census sections in the municipal padró microdata; not a pre-published aggregate. Spot-check against an official published total before relying on it.
Ajuntament de Barcelona Open Data — Padró municipal d'habitants (pad_mdbas_sexe) · 1 January 2026 · neighbourhood figure
Household income
Not sourced yetINE Atlas district income not retrieved; Idescat provides municipality-level totals only.
la Vila de Gràcianeighbourhood figure
Population
51,477 residentsComputed
Summed from 36 census sections in the municipal padró microdata; not a pre-published aggregate. Spot-check against an official published total before relying on it.
Ajuntament de Barcelona Open Data — Padró municipal d'habitants (pad_mdbas_sexe) · 1 January 2026 · neighbourhood figure
Household income
Not sourced yetINE Atlas district income not retrieved; Idescat provides municipality-level totals only.
Where these figures come from. Every number on this page is reproduced from a government body, a public transport operator, an airport authority or a national statistics office, and links back to the exact publication and the period it describes. We don't use cost-of-living aggregators. Where an official source doesn't publish something, the page says so rather than estimating.