Living in Centro
District of Madrid · 5.17 km²
Tourist crowds
Is Centro a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 10, 21st of 21 areas in Madrid, held back by tourist crowds. 71% of its streets are very touristy and 18% 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
2,855 cafés, bars and restaurants · 483 shops · 122 pharmacies · 103 schools · 189 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. (170 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/madrid-neighborhood-map
Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Madrid: 1,014 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2024, 0.8× 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 Centro
Paseo de los Plátanos (79), Calle de la Ventosa (71), Calle del Rosario (71)