Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu: industrial Palomar town, Besòs, low-cost housing and the endless Sagrera works.
Sant Andreu de Palomar was a major industrial municipality. Today the district runs from the town core and Fabra i Coats reuse through Bon Pastor's contested housing history to the Sagrera megaproject that keeps the east in permanent transformation. The district groups 7 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 158,284 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| la Trinitat Vella | 11,307 | 139.9 | 15,413 |
| Baró de Viver | 2,668 | 116 | 15,242 |
| el Bon Pastor | 15,871 | 85 | 18,735 |
| Sant Andreu | 59,330 | 317.8 | 24,597 |
| la Sagrera | 31,247 | 316.9 | 22,790 |
| el Congrés i els Indians | 15,254 | 373 | 23,047 |
| Navas | 22,607 | 533.2 | 23,517 |
- la Trinitat Vella — La Trinitat Vella is a working-class neighbourhood born in the 1950s among vineyards, a prison and new roads: Montcada's water, the Nus de la Trinitat and the Meridiana have all passed around it without ever ceasing to be its neighbours.
- Baró de Viver — Baró de Viver is a tiny neighbourhood beside the Besòs: its first houses, the Cases Barates of 1929, were replaced by blocks, and residents wrote what memory remained onto a 478 m2 mural.
- el Bon Pastor — El Bon Pastor grew around 784 single-storey cases barates built in 1929 beside the Besòs; a remodelling begun in 2002 has been replacing them with apartment blocks, and a block of sixteen houses is now a museum.
- Sant Andreu — Sant Andreu de Palomar was a town with its own municipality until its annexation to Barcelona on 20 April 1897, and it keeps that shape: Carrer Gran, Plaça d'Orfila, the market, Casa Bloc and the Fabra i Coats textile compound, where a museum of work opened in May 2026.
- la Sagrera — La Sagrera grew from a protected precinct round a parish church into an industrial neighbourhood, and now lies beside a high-speed station that trains already run through but that is not yet open to passengers.
- el Congrés i els Indians — El Congrés i els Indians joins a housing estate born of the 1952 Eucharistic Congress and the Indians quarter, where some emigrants returned from the Americas settled; its most singular building is the Canòdrom.
- Navas — Navas is the newest neighbourhood of the Sant Andreu district: it became official in 2006 on both sides of the Meridiana, on old land of el Clot and la Sagrera, and it is now debating whether to keep the name Navas or become Torrent de la Guineu.