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Associations. By type of activity. Counties and Aran, and areas

Associations. By type of activity. Counties and Aran, and areas 2024
Social care Culture Teaching & research Rights Sectors Space Health Others Total
Alt Camp 9 273 46 89 53 72 8 4 554
Alt Empordà 54 789 144 220 249 141 30 255 1,882
Alt Penedès 36 830 109 139 141 113 24 161 1,553
Alt Urgell 11 172 25 48 39 32 8 0 335
Alta Ribagorça 1 59 7 29 13 9 1 0 119
Anoia 45 755 133 144 152 158 25 134 1,546
Aran 4 75 22 14 37 10 2 0 164
Bages 76 987 178 196 188 105 30 170 1,930
Baix Camp 57 1,045 162 291 201 147 32 6 1,941
Baix Ebre 31 428 90 172 82 71 20 146 1,040
Baix Empordà 51 786 150 214 220 131 29 217 1,798
Baix Llobregat 248 2,685 633 691 564 340 96 541 5,798
Baix Penedès 33 541 66 154 103 112 17 6 1,032
Barcelonès 1,200 10,777 2,542 2,478 3,356 679 605 2,105 23,742
Berguedà 8 360 51 74 65 47 12 66 683
Cerdanya 8 100 28 42 47 25 10 30 290
Conca de Barberà 4 240 29 53 30 40 6 5 407
Garraf 61 820 116 159 188 131 23 134 1,632
Garrigues 11 199 45 39 33 23 3 0 353
Garrotxa 38 389 73 135 82 77 12 115 921
Gironès 162 1,166 273 469 355 149 63 490 3,127
Lluçanès 5 65 14 2 8 9 0 14 117
Maresme 196 2,020 369 464 526 261 70 406 4,312
Moianès 9 143 23 18 23 27 0 28 271
Montsià 27 352 56 111 70 44 9 132 801
Noguera 26 331 73 119 69 61 10 0 689
Osona 75 874 169 161 151 110 31 149 1,720
Pallars Jussà 7 150 26 49 41 29 4 0 306
Pallars Sobirà 1 127 15 49 50 35 2 0 279
Pla d'Urgell 24 220 42 75 60 30 9 83 543
Pla de l'Estany 17 264 55 56 31 29 5 0 457
Priorat 3 172 29 33 17 17 2 3 276
Ribera d'Ebre 4 185 26 43 21 23 3 45 350
Ripollès 12 194 43 60 39 36 6 43 433
Segarra 9 240 35 108 31 55 9 0 487
Segrià 142 1,259 249 398 236 120 47 0 2,451
Selva 81 754 137 269 236 186 38 268 1,969
Solsonès 8 130 26 35 31 31 7 0 268
Tarragonès 98 1,399 229 448 260 164 36 16 2,650
Terra Alta 2 112 22 20 10 14 1 27 208
Urgell 19 274 52 99 55 41 5 0 545
Vallès Occidental 330 3,464 772 831 791 380 130 621 7,319
Vallès Oriental 170 2,024 340 513 430 266 62 369 4,174
Catalonia 3,413 38,229 7,724 9,811 9,384 4,580 1,542 6,789 81,472
Metropolità 2,144 20,970 4,656 4,977 5,667 1,926 963 4,042 45,345
Comarques Gironines 422 4,298 862 1,442 1,241 750 187 1,471 10,673
Camp de Tarragona 171 3,129 495 914 561 440 84 34 5,828
Terres de l'Ebre 64 1,077 194 346 183 152 33 350 2,399
Ponent 224 2,567 509 819 455 329 79 0 4,982
Comarques Centrals 181 2,559 461 486 466 329 80 427 4,989
Alt Pirineu i Aran 32 683 123 231 227 140 27 30 1,493
Penedès 175 2,946 424 596 584 514 89 435 5,763
Source: Departament de Justícia i Qualitat Democràtica.
Notes:
Rights: Fostering and defending public, social personal rights.
Sectors: Interests of economic, geographical and professional sectors.
Space: Land planning, ecology and housing.

Last update: October 10, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Association
Non-profit organization, voluntarily formed by three or more persons to serve an objective of general or specific interest, through the sharing of personal resources or property temporarily or indefinitely.

Methodological aspects

The Directorate General for Law and Legal Entities is responsible for registering ordinary associations. Political, religious, competitive sports and professional associations which regulate working rights are excluded because they have specific registers.

The Directorate General for Law and Legal Entities is also responsible for registering and supervising foundations.

Associations and foundations are founded by three or more persons with a common objective. The most significant differences between an association and a foundation are these:

  • The creation of a foundation requires assets.
  • An association may pursue a general or specific objective (whatever the members want, as long as it is legal). In contrast, a foundation may only pursue objectives of general interest.
  • The governing bodies of an association are the general assembly and the board of directors, while the foundation has a board of trustees.

On December, 31.

The new county of El Moianès was created as of 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

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