Living in Hortaleza
District of Madrid · 27.6 km²
Quiet and leafy
Is Hortaleza a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 70, 5th of 21 areas in Madrid. 32% of its streets are leafy and 16% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 4 min 
Café or bar 3 min 
Pharmacy 4 min 
School 3 min 
Tram or bus stop 2 min What's here
416 cafés, bars and restaurants · 174 shops · 86 pharmacies · 163 schools · 360 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
Safety
An estimate from 2 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.)
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 Hortaleza
Glorieta de Medusa (84), Calle Pepe Hillo (83), Calle de Tribaldos (83)