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Neighbourhood safety for travellers

Embajadores — Madrid, Spain

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Average day Higher caution advised night

In detail

Embajadores (which contains Lavapies) has extensive, repeated press coverage of narcopisos, with multiple dismantlings reported across 2023-2025, and residents quoted saying drugs are sold openly in several plazas. In July 2023 a shopkeeper was murdered in a robbery on Plaza Tirso de Molina, and residents and merchants have repeatedly described frequent robberies and muggings despite dozens of CCTV cameras being installed. This is the most consistently and seriously documented barrio of the six, warranting a red night rating, with daytime concerns concentrated around drug-market plazas. Sources checked: El Espanol, July 2023 (Lavapies murder of shopkeeper); El Debate, April 2024 (residents fed up with narcopisos); ElDiario.es Somos Lavapies; Gacetin Madrid, May 2024 (narcopiso dismantled, 8 arrested); Telemadrid, June 2024.

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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. Madrid 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 Embajadores safe?

Wandroz currently rates Embajadores in Madrid as roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Madrid during the day and an area where the data suggests extra caution relative to other neighbourhoods in Madrid 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. Madrid publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead.

Is Embajadores safe at night?

At night, Embajadores is rated as an area where the data suggests extra caution relative to other neighbourhoods in Madrid. 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 Embajadores a good area to stay in as a tourist?

Embajadores's day rating (roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Madrid) 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 Centro, not Embajadores 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 Embajadores?

Not an official government crime feed — Embajadores'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 Embajadores well, you can suggest a correction using the link below.

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