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el Poble Sec Rent Prices (2026)

As of Q1 2026, the average rent in el Poble Sec is €951 a month for an average 58 m² flat, or €17.70 per m². All figures are official Generalitat de Catalunya statistics, updated quarterly.

19th
of 68 for rent
+5%
vs city average
€4,901
to buy
208
contracts

What this barri is like

2.1
residents per home, counting every home in the barri
41
median age of residents
56%
of homes built before 1940
573
licensed tourist flats

Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2026, CC BY 4.0. These describe the place; none of them predicts rent. Methodology.

How this barri compares

Four things the city measures about every neighbourhood, each set against the other 72.

Road traffic noise at night
7.2%

Lower than 86% of barris · % of residents · modelled, not measured

Steep streets
22%

Higher than 58% of barris · % of audited slope points

Households with a child
19%

Lower than 85% of barris · % of households

Residents with a foreign passport
38%

Higher than 92% of barris · % of residents

Filter all 73 barris on these →

Bars run against the city median, marked. No colour: none of these has a better end.

Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2022, 2026, CC BY 4.0. How these are measured.

Other neighborhoods in Sants-Montjuïc

Closest in price, elsewhere in Barcelona

Rent Price Trend

Rent per m² in el Poble Sec, Q1 2014 to Q1 2026
QuarterPrice per m²
Q1 2014€10.18
Q2 2014€10.30
Q3 2014€10.08
Q4 2014€10.20
Q1 2015€10.27
Q2 2015€11.36
Q3 2015€11.05
Q4 2015€11.68
Q1 2016€11.62
Q2 2016€11.88
Q3 2016€12.67
Q4 2016€12.92
Q1 2017€13.02
Q2 2017€13.95
Q3 2017€13.52
Q4 2017€14.12
Q1 2018€13.83
Q2 2018€13.41
Q3 2018€14.16
Q4 2018€14.02
Q1 2019€14.35
Q2 2019€14.21
Q3 2019€14.39
Q4 2019€14.48
Q1 2020€14.35
Q2 2020€14.89
Q3 2020€14.10
Q4 2020€14.02
Q1 2021€13.51
Q2 2021€13.51
Q3 2021€13.80
Q4 2021€13.68
Q1 2022€14.74
Q2 2022€15.33
Q3 2022€15.16
Q4 2022€15.74
Q1 2023€15.40
Q2 2023€16.00
Q3 2023€16.00
Q4 2023€16.71
Q1 2024€17.53
Q2 2024€16.49
Q3 2024€15.47
Q4 2024€15.89
Q1 2025€15.76
Q2 2025€17.21
Q3 2025€16.52
Q4 2025€17.29
Q1 2026€17.70
Rent per m² in el Poble Sec, Q1 2014 to Q1 2026

Sale Price Trend

Sale price per m² in el Poble Sec, Q4 2013 to Q2 2026. Official Generalitat data on registered transactions.
QuarterBuy €/m²
Q4 2013€1,666
Q1 2014€1,796
Q2 2014€1,386
Q3 2014€1,582
Q4 2014€1,964
Q1 2015€2,016
Q2 2015€2,233
Q3 2015€2,385
Q4 2015€2,304
Q1 2016€2,606
Q2 2016€2,676
Q3 2016€2,416
Q4 2016€2,311
Q1 2017€3,946
Q2 2017€3,273
Q3 2017€3,774
Q4 2017€2,655
Q1 2018€3,710
Q2 2018€3,805
Q3 2018€4,063
Q4 2018€4,619
Q1 2019€4,563
Q2 2019€4,004
Q3 2019€3,946
Q4 2019€4,864
Q1 2020€4,433
Q2 2020€3,765
Q3 2020€3,833
Q4 2020€4,196
Q1 2021€4,110
Q2 2021€5,358
Q3 2021€4,663
Q4 2021€3,869
Q1 2022€3,734
Q2 2022€3,731
Q3 2022€3,613
Q4 2022€3,587
Q1 2023€3,667
Q2 2023€3,797
Q3 2023€3,977
Q4 2023€4,092
Q1 2024€3,833
Q2 2024€4,333
Q3 2024€4,136
Q4 2024€4,326
Q1 2025€4,150
Q2 2025€4,426
Q3 2025€5,022
Q4 2025€5,624
Q1 2026€5,259
Q2 2026€4,901

What is on the street

el Poble Sec has more going on than most of Barcelona.

More places to eat and drink than 78% of the 73 barris.

Restaurants & bars
7.2
Food shops
3.6
Health & care
0.6
Education
1.1
Leisure & culture
0.4

Bars run against the city median, marked.

Ajuntament de Barcelona commercial census, CC BY 4.0. How this is counted.

Rent vs buy

Rent

€17.70

per m²

Est. monthly, 75 m²

€1,328

As of Q1 2026

Buy

€4,901

per m²

Est. price, 75 m²

€367,591

As of Q2 2026

Typical sale: 62 m² for €306,000, from 136 registered transactions.

Rent and sale figures are from different quarters, so no yield is shown.

Fair rent for 75 m² in el Poble Sec

Excl. utilities

What gets rented here

35%
rated F or G, the two worst energy bands · city 27%
47%
of property activity here is renting, not selling
15.7
per 1,000 homes in this barri came up for rent this year

From 302 energy certificates issued for homes let in this barri over the last 12 months (ICAEN), against its 19,253 homes (Ajuntament de Barcelona, CC BY 4.0).

What people here earn

€20,890

Disposable income in el Poble Sec averages €20,890 per person a year (2023, Ajuntament de Barcelona). The city average is €24,904.

Per person, not per household, and the mean across this barri’s census sections. CC BY 4.0. Why we do not divide rent by it.

New lettings registered here

That is about 2.3 new lettings a day.

208 contracts registered in el Poble Sec in Q1 2026.

A count, not a vacancy rate: bigger barris register more contracts simply because they hold more homes. How to read this figure.

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Rent from INCASÒL; sale prices from the Generalitat's registered-transaction statistics. Gross yield is our calculation. Q1 2026, indicative. Always check your own contract.