357 stations · 644,613 residential components
How close does
Madrid live to rail?
A building-level view of straight-line distance to Metro, Cercanías, Metro Ligero and Tranvía de Parla.
Residents by distance to rail
How close Madrid lives to rail.
Each resident is assigned the distance to their nearest station. This can vary by station point choice and rail mode.
Explore the geography
Every home has a nearest station.
Zoom in to see the residential components used in the population model.
Select a station or zoom closer to reveal its entrances or platforms and their connecting lines.
How neighbourhoods compare
Twenty-one districts, very different distances.
How well covered by rail are residents in each Madrid district?
How stations compare
Catchments overlap. Hinterlands do not.
A catchment counts everyone within a radius of one station; a hinterland assigns each resident to their single nearest station.
Method & limitations
An estimate with explicit boundaries.
Limitations
Population. Official INE population totals for each census section on 1 January 2025 were distributed across the residential buildings within that section according to their estimated number of dwellings. Dwelling counts were reconstructed from Catastro data; where a cadastral property contained multiple residential building components, dwellings were distributed between them according to their relative size. The procedure preserves the official INE population total for every census section.
Regional coverage. For each population component, we calculate the distance to its nearest eligible rail station entrance or platform. Coverage at each radius is the population whose nearest station lies within that distance, ensuring each resident is counted only once.
- This estimates residents, not actual occupied addresses.
- Dwelling occupancy is not uniform; the model assumes equal average occupancy within a census section.
- Distances are geometric, not walking distances; barriers and street layouts are not represented.
- INE population, Catastro and station information represent different source dates.
- Area selections exclude residents immediately outside their boundary, while eligible nearby stations remain available.