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UAB's own residential complex, and the cheapest single room in this whole comparison. It is a real bubble: lively while term is running, and cut off once the last train has gone.

Uphill behind Park Güell, where the city starts turning into Collserola. Cheap, green, quiet, and a genuinely steep walk home.

Another absorbed village, right at the top of the city next to UB Mundet. The cheapest neighbourhood here, and it feels like a small town.

The cheapest rooms within a short metro hop of Zona Universitària and Sants. Dense, mixed and genuinely un-touristy, with a documented rise in street robbery around Torrassa.

Dense, residential and genuinely cheap for how many metro lines run under it. One of the last real bargains inside the Ronda.

Sants's smaller neighbour, cheaper again, with the Plaça d'Espanya interchange at one end and Montjuïc above it.

A town with its own high street, festivals and identity that happens to be inside Barcelona. Cheap, safe, and far.

Cheap, and superbly connected for the money. It is also wedged against Spain's largest construction site, and will be for another decade.

Working-class, Catalan-speaking, tightly organised, and attached to the country's main rail station. The best-connected affordable neighbourhood in Barcelona.

Up the hill behind the Sagrada Família, where the rents finally drop below €500 a room. Green, steep and very local.

A quiet old village core with two metro lines and a mainline station, twenty minutes from everywhere and priced like it is further.

The closest to town of the three cheap Sant Andreu options, with the largest average flat of the three. Its defining feature is the avenue it straddles.

The densest, most mixed, most argued-about neighbourhood in the city. Cheap for how central it is, and central in a way nowhere else is - but it is loud at every hour and has Barcelona's highest recorded petty-theft pressure.

Between Montjuïc and Paral·lel: tapas street, theatre district, mountain on the doorstep. Central and still just about affordable.

The hillside above the Vila, with Park Güell inside it. One of the greenest and quietest parts of Gràcia, and one of the least convenient places we cover.

The student-adjacent neighbourhood: walking distance to UPC, Esade and UB Diagonal, and quiet enough to actually get work done.

Ordinary residential Eixample wrapped around an extraordinary building. Two streets from the basilica the tourists vanish entirely and the price drops with them.

Wedged between Arc de Triomf and Glòries, and underrated because nobody thinks to look there. Fast to UPF, fast to the centre, priced below both.

The Eixample without the price premium. Quieter, more local, more Catalan-speaking, and a genuinely good value for how central it still is.

Where el Guinardó climbs, el Baix Guinardó stays flat. Two metro lines, the lowest perceived-insecurity share of anywhere in this comparison, and Gràcia adjacency without Gràcia prices.

Esade's and UIC's own town, over the hill from Barcelona. Safe, green and pedestrianised, and now more expensive per flat than Barcelona city.

On the sand, and that is the entire proposition. Tiny former fishermen's flats - the famous quarts de casa - at a price that has nothing to do with their size.

The neighbourhood everyone recommends and nobody can afford any more. Excellent food, excellent transport, a renovated market, and rents that have climbed faster than almost anywhere in the city.

Solid, grown-up, extremely well connected. Big modernista flats with high ceilings, shared by students who pool rent to reach them.

Gràcia's quiet eastern half, on the Eixample grid rather than the medieval tangle. Ten minutes' walk from the noise, and about €85 a month cheaper for it.

The cheapest whole flats in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, with the district's densest student room supply and two metro lines. The catch is that nothing happens here in the evening.

TBS Education's own neighbourhood on the eastern 22@ edge. Cheaper than the Poblenou core with much the same access, and the emptiest streets in the area after dark.

Postcard Barcelona, and priced like it. Beautiful to walk through, punishing to actually live in - this is the neighbourhood most people romanticise and most quickly leave.

Prosperous, orderly and slightly dull, which is the point. The safest-feeling part of the city that still has a metro at the end of the street.

A former village at the foot of Collserola that never quite joined the city. The quietest and safest neighbourhood we cover, and it feels a long way from everything.

The liveable end of the old city. Same medieval bones as the Gòtic with a fraction of the chaos, next to the Ciutadella park and a fifteen-minute walk from UPF.

The private-school and consulate belt above Galvany. Physically about as safe and quiet as Barcelona gets, and almost entirely empty in the evenings.

An independent town until 1897 and it still behaves like one. The default recommendation for international students, which is exactly why it is no longer cheap.

Uptown Barcelona. Large flats, wide streets, private schools and the highest rents outside Pedralbes.

UPF Poblenou's own neighbourhood, inside the 22@ core. The most internationally mixed part of Sant Martí and the least comfortable of it at night on the official measures.

Barcelona's most residential neighbourhood: villas, gardens and campus edges. Students are here in residences and colegios mayores, almost never in a shared flat.

The sparsest, most expensive and quietest small pocket in the city, with essentially no private student market of its own.

Old textile Barcelona rebuilt as the 22@ tech district. Newer flats, the beach at the end of the Rambla, and room prices among the highest we cover.

Built for the 1992 Olympics and still feeling slightly like a masterplan. Wide, green, safe, on the beach, and short on street life.

The central grid around Passeig de Gràcia: the best transit in Spain and rooms among the most expensive we cover. It has two very different halves, and only one of them is somewhere to live.

The best beach access we cover, in 2000s towers around a park and a shopping centre. It also has the lowest share of 20 to 34 year olds of all 73 Barcelona neighbourhoods.