Les Corts
Les Corts: former farm municipality turned campus, offices and Camp Nou gravity.
Les Corts was a municipality of farm estates before annexation. Today three neighbourhoods span village memory (les Corts), care and sport landscapes (Maternitat i Sant Ramon) and elite Pedralbes around the monastery. The district groups 3 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 83,773 (padró 2026). The comparative table uses the same definitions and years for every barri. Internal inequalities — income, density, tourism, self-built or Eixample histories — are best read neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each has its own page with sources.
Neighbourhood directory
| Neighbourhood | Population | Density | Mean disposable income of census sections |
|---|---|---|---|
| les Corts | 46,672 | 331 | 32,838 |
| la Maternitat i Sant Ramon | 24,622 | 128.6 | 29,377 |
| Pedralbes | 12,479 | 46.5 | 46,631 |
- les Corts — Les Corts was a village of farmhouses that broke away from Sarrià in 1836 and was merged into Barcelona in 1897; today it can be read in an 1884 town hall, an 18th-century farmhouse, the façade of a glassworks and a park laid out over a workers' colony.
- la Maternitat i Sant Ramon — La Maternitat i Sant Ramon is named after a provincial maternity and foundling home and a parish, and brings together the Maternitat pavilions, the Cementiri de les Corts and Spotify Camp Nou in one neighbourhood beside the l'Hospitalet border.
- Pedralbes — Pedralbes grew around a royal monastery founded in 1326 and in the twentieth century was planned as the Güell family's garden city, between the Collserola slopes and the Diagonal.