Explore the demographics and safety profiles of cities and districts across the Valencian Community, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Azahar. This breakdown covers population size, age distribution, economic well-being, and local safety, including crime rates per 1,000 residents. All data is sourced directly from the National Statistics Institute (INE) and the Interior Ministry.
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The districts cover the city’s entire population: 27,440 residents.
Of these crimes, 95.6% are nonviolent: theft, burglary, vehicle theft and property damage. The remaining 4.4% involve violence or threats against a person: homicide, assault, sexual offenses and robbery.
Online fraud isn’t included in this figure: it’s recorded at the victim’s address rather than where the crime took place, so it says nothing about how safe the city is.
The list includes only cities with 200,000 or more residents; Calpe is smaller than all of them and is slotted in by its rate so the figure has a point of reference. That makes the comparison approximate: a big city has a different influx of visitors and has a different mix of crime. At 58.5, the rate is 3.6% higher than in Madrid (56.5) and 32.8% lower than in Barcelona (87.2). The Spanish average is 40.5, yet 17 of the 31 major cities are above it: the average also takes in thousands of smaller towns, where markedly less crime is recorded. Spain’s Interior Ministry itself (Balance de Criminalidad) puts the current national level at its lowest since records began. The cities in the list are Spanish municipalities with 200,000 or more residents.
Two measures, each per 1,000 residents a year. Each bar’s scale runs up to three times the Spanish average.
“About average” means within ±15% of the Spanish average. Spain has no official scale for this, so the threshold is our own, set wider than the rate’s year-to-year swings.
Home burglary is the only measure that can cautiously be compared with other countries, because the legal definitions of the offense are close. Eurostat puts Spain at 1.67, against 1.50 from the Interior Ministry, a gap of 11.3%, so the comparison is right in order of magnitude but not to one decimal place. Country figures come from Eurostat, crim_off_cat; Eurostat cautions that laws, recording practices and people’s willingness to report crime to the police vary from country to country. Violent crime can’t be compared this way: the definitions differ so much that the figures would be measuring different things.
In summer there are noticeably more people here than registered residents. The rate is calculated on the registered population, and visitors don’t count in the denominator: the official estimate of the seasonal increase for the Valencian Community runs as high as +121%, and on the coast the number of people actually present can be double the registered population. The figures above are therefore inflated, by an unknown amount: no official recalculation based on the population actually present is published for this region.
In 60 other Spanish municipalities, summer likewise brings more crime than winter. The test is purely arithmetic (at least one-third more crime in July–September than in January–March), so alongside resorts the group also includes cities with big festivals and one with an airport. Of the 61 municipalities in this group, Calpe ranks 41st, counting from the lowest crime rate.
Each bar is one quarter; the third (July–September) is highlighted. Summer (the third quarter) sees 55.7% more recorded crime than winter (the first quarter), averaged over 3 years for which both quarters are published. This data can’t show how much of that is added risk and how much is simply more visitors: every crime is counted, but only registered residents are in the denominator.
Each percentage is that type’s share of all conventional crime in the city (all crime except cybercrime). Only the six most common types are shown, so their shares add up to less than 100%: the rarer types make up the rest.
Apart from the one European comparison above, everything on this card can be compared only within Spain: crime-recording methods differ too much between countries, and both Eurostat and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) explicitly warn against direct cross-country comparisons.
The denominator is the city’s population in the Censo Anual (27,440); the Spanish average uses Spain’s population from the same survey (49,128,297). The calculation is ours: the Interior Ministry publishes raw counts by municipality, not rates per 1,000 residents.
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