Living in l'Eixample
District of Barcelona · 7.5 km²
Tourist crowds
Is l'Eixample a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 42, 9th of 10 areas in Barcelona, held back by tourist crowds. 31% of its streets are very touristy and 57% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 1 min 
Café or bar 1 min 
Pharmacy 1 min 
School 2 min 
Tram or bus stop 1 min What's here
2,556 cafés, bars and restaurants · 839 shops · 199 pharmacies · 161 schools · 316 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. (131 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 l'Eixample
Avinguda Meridiana (79), Carrer de Ribes (71), Avinguda de Josep Tarradellas (69)