Living in Ciutat Vella
District of Barcelona · 4.22 km²
Tourist crowds
Is Ciutat Vella a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 10, 10th of 10 areas in Barcelona, held back by tourist crowds. 68% of its streets are very touristy and 17% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 1 min 
Café or bar 1 min 
Pharmacy 2 min 
School 2 min 
Tram or bus stop 2 min What's here
1,510 cafés, bars and restaurants · 306 shops · 83 pharmacies · 64 schools · 111 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
Safety
An estimate from 3 sources. Each note below says where it comes from and how far to trust it.
Our estimate from traffic speed, crossings, street lighting and how many places are open nearby. It is not about crime. (median of the district's streets.)
From Hoodmaps, a crowd map where anyone tags areas. Tags are often blunt or joking and nobody checks them. Can be unreliable. (on Hoodmaps' crime list; 1294 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/barcelona-neighborhood-map
Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Barcelona: 2,020 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2024, 1.5× the European regional median.)
Not part of the score above, and it doesn't change the map colours. Some sources can be unreliable.
Not available here yet: Reddit, City survey (Numbeo).
Best streets to live on in Ciutat Vella
Carrer del Gas (79), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta - Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola (76), Passeig de Joan Salvat Papasseit (75)