Traffic Tickets! This is the income of the 10 municipalities that collect the most in fines per year

The traffic fines they are never a tasteful dish, but depending on the city in which you reside you have more or less possibilities of receiving a sanction. Of course, if we comply with all the rules, in principle, we should be calm, right? A study has revealed what are the municipalities that fine the most, and Madrid is in the lead by quite a bit.

Ok, at first we might think that it is something logical, since the capital of Spain is the city with the most inhabitants in the entire country. However, Madrid City Council is also the one that collects the most for each registered vehicle and even per inhabitant. Therefore, no, the fact that it is the city with the most residents does not justify that it is the one that collects the most from fines.

Before entering fully into the Spanish town halls that take the most money from citizens by way of fines, there are a curiosity which is very striking. The 10 most populous Spanish cities, with a total of 9,2 million inhabitants and 5,2 million vehicles, together have raised 362 million euros. However, the DGT, which has such a bad reputation, and which "controls" 47,6 million people and 35 million cars, has entered 440 million euros in fines. That is to say, the city councils are much more aggressive with traffic sanctions than the DGT itself.

The 10 cities that enter the most for traffic fines

According to a study published by DVuelta, the city of Madrid collected almost 200 million euros in fines during the past 2022. The next city is Barcelona, with some 62 million collected, having a big difference with the capital although it is not bad at all... The third is Seville, with 22 million euros.

It is striking that cities such as Palma de Mallorca or Bilbao are in the top 5, which are the eighth and tenth largest towns in the country. For putting us in situation, Madrid has about 3,3 million inhabitants, while Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao barely have around 400.000 and 350.000 inhabitants respectively. Don't worry, below we will review the highest average collections per inhabitant.

The cities that collect the most per vehicle

If you look at the collections per vehicle, Madrid is once again in the lead, taking the “honorary” award to the city that collects the most for each registered vehicle. In the Spanish capital, each vehicle pays on average more than 100 euros in fines per year. Yes, you read it right. Second place is occupied by Bilbao and third by Barcelona.

The cities with the highest collection of fines per inhabitant

If instead of talking about what each city council collects for registered vehicles we look at what they enter in fines per inhabitant, Madrid continues at the topUnfortunately for the people of Madrid. However, there are changes in the second and fourth position of this top5. By the way, you can always check traffic fines by license plate or with the Clave system. here's how to do it.

Taking these references, Madrid City Council received an average of 2022 euros for each neighbor in 60,8 for traffic fines. Therefore, now we can say that Madrid is the city that proportionally collects the most fines. But be careful with Palma de Mallorca, which is not far behind with an average of more than 50 euros per inhabitant.