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US nationals living in Spain (2025 figures)

Source: INE Annual Population Census (national totals), reference 1 January 2025, compared with 1 January 2024. Same series as the municipal pages.

Spain recorded 57,379 residents with US nationality on 1 January 2025, out of 6,911,971 foreign nationals in total. This counts nationality: it does not include people born in that country who hold Spanish citizenship.

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The change compares two stock figures. It is not a count of arrivals or departures: migration, births, deaths, nationality changes and register revisions all move the stock.

Where do they live?

The municipal pages come from the same census and show the town-level breakdown for 30 selected municipalities. It is a selection, not a national ranking.

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Source and method

All figures on this page come from one source: the INE Annual Population Census (Censo Anual de Población), municipal table by country of nationality, reference date 1 January 2025, compared with 1 January 2024 from the same series. INE press release with the reference date. Data: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, reused under CC BY 4.0. Shares and year-on-year changes are our calculations from those figures. Checked 30 September 2026. The INE groups smaller nationalities into regional aggregates; only individually listed countries appear in the breakdown.