By day, la Vila de Gràcia shows no specific incident reports. By night the picture is mixed: beteve.cat reported a wave of night-time break-ins at shops/bars along Carrer de la Providència, forcing extra patrols. Plaça del Sol/Plaça de la Vila have a long-documented chronic 'botellón'/noise problem, and Festa Major de Gràcia (mid-August) sees a very large annual police deployment targeting theft, disorder and (in past years) reported sexual-assault incidents linked to festival crowds. Sources checked: beteve.cat; ARA.cat.
la Vila de Gràcia — Barcelona, Spain
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No concerns found day
Average night
In detail
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This rating comes from a structured local-source assessment. This specific area was reviewed against credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — and the signals were consolidated across sources rather than taken from any single report, with the reasoning and the sources shown above. Barcelona publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does publish one, Wandroz uses it instead of an assessment. Where a review finds nothing documented, that is recorded as no findings rather than as a safety rating.
Frequently asked questions
Is la Vila de Gràcia safe?
Wandroz currently rates la Vila de Gràcia in Barcelona as an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report during the day and roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Barcelona at night. This comes from a structured local-source assessment: an area-level review of credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — consolidated across sources rather than taken from a single report. Barcelona publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead.
Is la Vila de Gràcia safe at night?
At night, la Vila de Gràcia is rated as roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Barcelona. If you're unsure, it's worth checking recent local reviews for your specific street or block, since a neighbourhood-wide rating can't capture block-by-block variation.
Is la Vila de Gràcia a good area to stay in as a tourist?
la Vila de Gràcia's day rating (an area where the review found nothing traveller-relevant to report) is the more relevant one for typical daytime tourist activity; check the night rating too if you'll be out late. Note that the Booking.com link on this page searches Gràcia, not la Vila de Gràcia specifically: Booking does not list this neighbourhood as a destination of its own, so check each property's address against the map above.
Is there official crime data for la Vila de Gràcia?
Not an official government crime feed — la Vila de Gràcia's rating comes from Wandroz's own current local/national press and survey research for this specific area instead (see the note on this page for what was checked and the sources used). An absence of recent negative coverage is treated as inconclusive, not as proof the area is safe. If you live in or know la Vila de Gràcia well, you can suggest a correction using the link below.
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