ESmap scores the neighborhoods of Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid and Málaga on four axes — status, calm, urban convenience and family — from INE 2023, Catastro and municipal open data. Method and sources.
Every neighborhood gets four scores: 💰 wealth & status, 🌳 calm & green, 🚇 urban convenience and 👨👩👧 family-friendliness. Each score is a weighted sum of several open-data indicators. There is deliberately no single overall score — a neighborhood that is perfect for a family with children can be a poor fit for someone who wants nightlife within walking distance, so the four axes are kept separate.
Raw indicators are standardised as z-scores across the neighborhoods of one city, then combined. A score of 0 means “city average”; +1 means one standard deviation better than average.
INE Atlas de Distribución de Renta de los Hogares 2023 (income, poverty and demographics at census-section level); Catastro INSPIRE buildings (construction years, dwelling counts); the municipal open-data portals of Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid and Málaga (noise maps, green zones, transit stops, municipal facilities, playgrounds, schools); and regional vulnerability studies. Exact datasets and years differ slightly per city — the interactive map shows the per-city formula tables.
Málaga is scored by its 64 municipal social-services zones (Unidades de Trabajo Social, UTS) rather than by its 419 official barrios. Most barrios are about the size of a single INE census section — too small to carry their own census income figures — so each scored area groups several barrios, and its profile lists them. Census sections are allocated to areas by their Catastro dwellings, not by a centre point.
The 6 rural areas (Diseminado) cover 72% of the municipal land but hold only 0.6% of residents. They are drawn in grey on the map and are not scored, ranked or profiled; in the map's hexagon view their inhabited cells are shown and scored against the urban cells' averages. The map also shows a Málaga-only descriptor that is not a score input: registered tourist flats.
INE (Atlas de Distribución de Renta de los Hogares 2023, Census 2021, census-section boundaries); Dirección General del Catastro (buildings and dwellings); Ayuntamiento de Málaga open data (boundaries, 2012 noise map, EMT bus stops, bike parking, municipal facilities); Junta de Andalucía (schools and nurseries, OpenRTA tourist-flat register, IECA population grid); Copernicus Sentinel-2 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025); © OpenStreetMap contributors (playgrounds, ODbL).