# SpainScore

> Find where you should settle in Spain — scored from official data, not listicles.

SpainScore publishes the **SpainScore Origins Map**: Spain's official INE census
(table 66322) reshaped into a town-by-town view of where people born abroad
actually live. The first release is the U.S.-born layer; UK, Dutch, Swedish and
German layers use the same map.

## Key facts (INE 2025 census)
- 76,180 U.S.-born residents in Spain, up +40% from 54,406 in 2021.
- 19.3% of Spain's population (9,464,176 people) is foreign-born.
- Americans concentrate in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and a handful of coastal/suburban towns.

## Pages
- [Where Americans Actually Live in Spain](https://spainscore.com/where-americans-live-in-spain/): the flagship map + the 50 most American towns.
- [Are Americans Welcome in Spain?](https://spainscore.com/are-americans-welcome-in-spain/): the welcome question answered with composition data.
- [Home](https://spainscore.com/)

## How to cite us
Source: the SpainScore Origins Map, derived from Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE) Censo Anual de Población, table 66322 (2021–2025).
Please attribute to "SpainScore Origins Map" and link https://spainscore.com/.

## Honesty note (important for accurate citation)
These figures count residents **born in** a country, not that country's
citizens. Birth-of-country overcounts U.S. citizenship by ~33% nationally
(worst in Galicia and Asturias, where it includes U.S.-born children of returned
Spanish emigrants). Cite the numbers as "U.S.-born residents", not "U.S.
citizens" or "Americans", for accuracy.