Spain — Regional Market index

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title: "Spain — Regional Market Index"
title: "Spain — Regional Market index"
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last_edited: 2026-06-29
last_edited: 2026-07-16
editor: woodfine-editorial
short_description: "Ranked index of Spanish regional commercial real estate markets meeting co-location screening thresholds."
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The **Spain regional market index** ranks Spanish cities and provincial capitals outside the
primary Madrid and Barcelona metropolitan areas that meet the population, income, and retail
infrastructure thresholds established by the [[about-regional-markets|co-location regional market
infrastructure thresholds established by the [[about-regional-markets-system|co-location regional market
framework]]. Spain's territorial organisation into seventeen autonomous communities, each with
a principal urban centre and a network of secondary cities, produces a structured set of
qualifying regional markets distributed across the Iberian Peninsula.
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**Andalusia** — Málaga (primary-market scale), Almería, Jaén, Huelva as secondary markets;
income qualification requires careful screening.

## Sample markets
**Correction (2026-07-16):** none of Burgos, Pamplona, Valladolid, Vitoria-Gasteiz, or
Zaragoza — all previously listed above as primary qualifying markets or in the removed
Sample markets table below — actually appear among Spain's 22 verified entries in the
[[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] list. This doesn't mean these
places aren't real Spanish markets; it means they are not currently ranked in the TOP400
co-location screen specifically. The Coverage by autonomous community prose above is left
as a qualitative regional description rather than rewritten, but should not be read as
implying these named markets are TOP400 entries.

| Market | Community | Population range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burgos | Castile and León | 175,000–185,000 | Strong industrial base; Leroy Merlin + Alcampo anchors |
| Pamplona | Navarre | 340,000–360,000 | High income; established power centre base |
| Valladolid | Castile and León | 295,000–310,000 | Automotive manufacturing anchor; regional capital |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz | Basque Country | 250,000–270,000 | Highest per-capita income among Basque capitals |
| Zaragoza secondary | Aragon | 50,000–100,000 | Satellite markets of the Ebro valley metro |
## Ranked markets

This table is a filtered, Spain-specific view of the continental
[[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] table — not a separate dataset
— so every rank, score, and tier count matches the continental table exactly and updates
automatically if that table is corrected.

| Rank | Market | Suburb of | km | T1 | T2 | T3 | Civic | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Murcia | Alicante | 72 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Yes | 9.0 |
| 53 | Gijón | Oviedo | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | 7.5 |
| 217 | San Sebastián de los Reyes | Madrid | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 218 | Castelló de la Plana | Valencia | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 219 | Las Rozas de Madrid | Madrid | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 220 | Gavà | Barcelona | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 221 | Badia del Vallès | Barcelona | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 222 | Elche | Alicante | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 223 | Rivas-Vaciamadrid | Madrid | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 224 | Parets del Vallès | Barcelona | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 225 | Alcalá de Henares | Madrid | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 226 | Getafe | Madrid | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 227 | Ferrol | A Coruña | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 228 | Talavera de la Reina | Toledo | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 229 | Orihuela | Alicante | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 230 | Jaén | Granada | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 231 | Finestrat | Alicante | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 232 | Xàtiva | Valencia | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6.0 |
| 347 | Fuengirola | Málaga | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.0 |
| 348 | Nigrán | Braga | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.0 |
| 380 | Jerez de la Frontera | Cádiz | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 3.0 |
| 381 | Torrejón de Ardoz | Madrid | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 3.0 |

## See also

- [[atlas-top-600-europe]] — the European master index
- [[about-regional-markets]] — the co-location methodology and market selection criteria
- [[atlas-top-400-europe]] — the full European ranked list this page filters
- [[about-regional-markets-system]] — the co-location methodology and market selection criteria