Sants-Montjuïc
Sants-Montjuïc: industrial Sants town, Paral·lel, Montjuïc mountain and the southern port plain.
This district combines the annexed industrial municipality of Sants, hill and exhibition landscapes of Montjuïc, port-plain Marinas and dense popular neighbourhoods such as Poble-sec and Hostafrancs. It is a lesson in how one administrative district can hold disconnected topographies and class histories. The district groups 8 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 196,040 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| el Poble-sec | 40,136 | 87.5 | 20,890 |
| la Marina del Prat Vermell | 3,174 | 2.2 | 19,074 |
| la Marina de Port | 31,768 | 250.3 | 19,717 |
| la Font de la Guatlla | 10,869 | 366 | 24,528 |
| Hostafrancs | 17,021 | 415.1 | 23,353 |
| la Bordeta | 21,153 | 369.8 | 23,278 |
| Sants - Badal | 25,243 | 608.3 | 22,539 |
| Sants | 46,676 | 426.3 | 25,562 |
- el Poble-sec — El Poble-sec was built from 1858 on the north slope of Montjuïc, outside the Eixample plan, as three working-class districts — França Xica, Santa Madrona and Hortes de Sant Bertran — below the theatres of the Paral·lel.
- la Marina del Prat Vermell — La Marina del Prat Vermell takes its name from the fields where dyed cloth from the calico-printing factories was laid out to dry, and is now one of Barcelona's main housing-growth areas, with nearly 12,000 homes planned on former industrial land.
- la Marina de Port — La Marina de Port is not one workers' district beside the harbour but a mosaic of nuclei — the Port of the medieval castle, Can Clos, the Polvorí, SEAT's Sant Cristòfol — tied together by Passeig de la Zona Franca.
- la Font de la Guatlla — La Font de la Guatlla is a small neighbourhood at the foot of Montjuïc named after a spring that no longer runs, and around it stand a modernist factory, cooperative villas built by municipal workers and rental blocks on the Gran Via.
- Hostafrancs — Hostafrancs grew along Creu Coberta, the road into Barcelona, where about 1839 a carter from a village in the Segarra opened an inn that gave the neighbourhood its name; with the market, the tram and the factories it became a working-class and artisan district.
- la Bordeta — La Bordeta began as an inn beside the Riera Blanca and grew around Can Batlló, a cotton works open from 1880 and closed in the 1960s, whose Bloc 11 the neighbours now run themselves.
- Sants - Badal — Sants-Badal is the western end of old Sants: a very dense neighbourhood named after a rambla that the Badal brothers opened in 1885, beside the Riera Blanca, the border with l'Hospitalet.
- Sants — Sants, the core of the old municipality of Santa Maria de Sants, grew between the Carretera de Sants and two steam mills, the Vapor Vell and the Espanya Industrial, and is now rebuilding its railway station.