In the last year, more than 2,000 Dominicans moved to Madrid; there are currently 68,448 Creoles

Santo Domingo—“The Dominican is everywhere,” and a large population of people born on this Caribbean island is in Spain. By 2024, the total population of people born in the Dominican Republic will reach about 201,162, according to the population census of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Dominicans living in Spain are divided into 19 autonomous communities and cities and 52 provinces. Madrid is the capital with the highest number of these migrants, with 68,448 people.

“The children of these Latin American immigrants who are born in Spain do not appear in the INE statistics as a separate group, but they tend to perceive themselves as Latinos, so that the cultural weight of this new community would be even greater than the census figures suggest,” explains the newspaper El País in an article on the number of Latin Americans living in Madrid.

From 2022 to date, there has been significant growth of Dominicans in Madrid, with an increase of 3,528 people and 2,466 from 2023 to 2024.

The permanence of the Dominican population in this important city in Spain has occurred as follows: in 2020, some 66,355 lived there; in 2021, the population decreased to 64,789, and in 2022, it increased by 64,920. By 2023, the number of Dominicans in Madrid reached 65,982 people.

Madrid has the largest number of Dominicans, 48,951, followed by Catalonia, 40,353, and Castilla y León, 12,312.

The localities with the fewest Dominicans are Ceuta, which has 16, and Melilla, which has 25.

Cities with less than 10 thousand inhabitants and more than a thousand are: Andalusia with 9,810; Castilla-La Mancha with 7,132; Aragon 5,968; the Balearic Islands 5,744; Basque Country 5,185; Asturias 5,107; the Canary Islands 4,976; A Coruña 4,383; Zaragoza 4,177; Navarre 3,958; Valencian Community 3,685; Las Palmas 3,390; Tarragona 3,313; Girona 3, 214; Valladolid 3,099; Alicante/Alacant 2,984.

También León con 2,901; Cantabria, 2,687; Sevilla, 2,541; Gipuzkoa, 2,259; Lugo, 2,130; Lleida, 2,071; Malanga, 2,063; Guadalajara, 1,867; Murcia, 1,761; Burgos, 1,756; Pontevedra, 1,675; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1,586; Ourense, 1,583; Araba/Ávala, 1,472; Bizkaia, 1,454; Cádiz, 1,414; Granada, 1,276; Huesca, 1,150; Almería, 1,135; Extremadura, 1,113 y Ciudad Real, 1,105.

While with less than 10 thousand Dominicans and more than 300 are Galicia with 9.77; Salamanca, 931; Segovia, 906; Ávila, 894; Castellón/Castello, 836; Soria, 812; Cuenca, 820; Rioja, 693; Zamora, 680; Teruel, 641; Badajoz, 610; Albacete, 576; Jaén, 526; Cáceres, 503; Huelva, 431; Córdoba, 424 and Palencia with 333.

The average age of Dominicans living in the different cities of Spain is 34 to 45 years old.