23 Jan Jin rivers, trades, San Sebastián and El Lasso are the neighborhoods with the highest unemployment rate recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025
By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias On the opposite side, The neighborhoods with the lowest registered unemployment rates are El Cable (5%) and the
Concha (4,8) in Reef, On Date (4,4%) and La Minilla (6,2%) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las
Casas (4,4) and the old houses (6,5%) in Arona and Anaga Urbanization (4%) and Miramar (5,4%) in Santa
Cross of Tenerife.
These data come from the Registered Active Population Statistics (EPA-Reg) published by
the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), prepared in collaboration with the Canarian Service of
job. In contrast to other employment-related operations, the sources of obtaining
Data for EPA-Reg are integrated administrative records, so you can study the market
labor and obtain territorially disaggregated data at even the submunicipal level. At the moment
Employment data by neighborhood is only available for the municipalities of Santa Cruz de
Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Reef and Arona.
At municipal level, and as usual, Yaiza and Pájara are the municipalities with the lowest rate of
unemployment recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025, municipalities that belong to Lanzarote and
Fuerteventura. Both islands have unemployment rates below 9%. further, in them are found
the five municipalities with the lowest unemployment rate in the entire Canary Islands, headed by Yaiza, that with a
5,9% has the lowest rate, followed by Pájara (6,5%), Teguise (7,1%), Aunts (7,3%) and Tinajo (7,5%).
In the opposite case, The islands with the highest registered unemployment rate are La Palma (15,6%) and great
Canaria (14,8%). At the municipal level, Tazacorte (21,1%) It is the municipality that has the largest
tasa, followed by Garafía (20,1%), Agaete (18,7%), Moya (18,3%) and El Paso (17,9%).
At a general level, The lowest registered unemployment rates are found in the two largest islands.
oriental, and in the southern areas of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
If we consider the registered unemployment rates for men and women, en el cuarto trimestre de
2025 rates for women are higher than those for men. The greatest inequalities in this rate are
they give in La Palma with 4,8 percentage points difference, seguida de Gran Canaria con 4,2 puntos.
If we compare with a year ago, The number of registered employed people increased on all the islands. El
average annual growth in employment in the Canary Islands was 2,6%. Above this growth
We found El Hierro (6,2%), Fuerteventura (3,8%) y Tenerife (3%)
Por otra parte, Registered unemployment fell in one year by 6,7% in the Canary Islands, decreasing in all
the islands.
Source:: Noticias Económicas de Canarias










