Living in Puente de Vallecas
District of Madrid · 14.94 km²
Parks nearby and open skies
Is Puente de Vallecas a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 73, 3rd of 21 areas in Madrid. 21% of its streets are leafy and 25% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 2 min 
Café or bar 2 min 
Pharmacy 2 min 
School 3 min 
Tram or bus stop 2 min What's here
411 cafés, bars and restaurants · 194 shops · 117 pharmacies · 126 schools · 298 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; 0 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. Street lighting is mapped for only 19% of streets here.
Not available here yet: Reddit, City survey (Numbeo).
Best streets to live on in Puente de Vallecas
Calle Puerto de Costabona (89), Calle de Boada (88), Calle Payaso Fofó (87)