Adelfas

This article is about the neighborhood in Madrid. For the metro station in Seville, see Adelfas (Seville Metro).

Adelfas
City neighborhood
Country	Spain
Region	Community of Madrid
Municipality	Madrid
District	Retiro
Area
• Total	0.640692 km2 (0.247373 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	18,886
• Density	29,000/km2 (76,000/sq mi)

Adelfas is an administrative neighborhood (barrio) in Madrid of the Retiro district. . It is located in the extreme south of the district, so it only delimits with 3 of the 5 neighborhoods of the district: Pacífico to the west, Niño Jesús to the east and Estrella to the northeast. It is a middle class neighborhood, and it is also the neighborhood of the district with the newest architecture. This neighborhood was formerly known as "Las Californias". This name is attributed to the homonymous street that was the backbone of neighborhood.

Demography

It has a population of 12,105 as of January 1, 2006 . The evolution of demographics in the neighborhood has experienced a great increase over the last 20 years. Thus in 1986 the population of the neighborhood was 12,105, in 1991 it was 13,068, in 1996 it was 12,629 and in 2001 it was 14,453. Therefore, if we take the 1986 population as a reference, it has increased by 38%, while the population of the City of Madrid, in the same period, has only grown by 4.8%. In 2020, the population is 18,886.

Year	Population	Population evolution
1986	12,105	100
1991	13,068	108.0
1996	12,629	104.3
1998	12,877	106.4
1999	12,940	106.9
2000	13,414	110.8
2001	14,453	119.4
2002	15,208	125.6
2003	16,149	133.4
2004	16,260	134.3
2005	16,408	135.5
2006	16,705	138.0
2020	18,886

The average age of the neighborhood is 41.12 years. Despite being an age not much lower than the average for the city (42.00 years), it is the lowest in a district characterized by its aging since the average age of the district is 43.88 years.

It has a foreign population of 1,747, which represents 10.46% of the population. The most represented community is that of Ecuadorians, with a total of 381 people. The next community is the Colombian one with 136 people, and closely followed by Romanians, with 123 people. Immigration from the European Union contributes 154 people.

Transport

Cercanías Madrid

No Cercanías station serves this neighborhood. The closest are Méndez Álvaro (C-1, C-5, C-7 and C-10) and Atocha (C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, C-5, C-7, C-8, C-10) in the Atocha neighborhood of the neighboring Arganzuela district.

Metro of Madrid

Lines 1 and 6 serve the neighborhood with the stations of Pacífico (both lines), Puente de Vallecas (L1) and Conde de Casal (L6)

Buses

Within the network of the Municipal Transport Company of Madrid , the following lines provide service to this neighborhood:

Line	Terminals
8	Pza. Legazpi - Valdebernardo
10	Pza. Cibeles - Palomeras
14	Pza. Conde de Casal - Avda. Pío XII
24	Atocha - Well of Uncle Raimundo
32	Pza. Jacinto Benavente - Pavones
37	Gta. Cuatro Caminos - Vallecas Bridge
54	Atocha - Bº Vilano
56	Diego de León - Vallecas Bridge
57	Atocha - Alto del Arenal
63	Avda. Felipe II - Bº Santa Eugenia
113	Méndez Álvaro - Pza. Ciudad Lineal
136	Pacific - Madrid South
141	Atocha - Buenos Aires
143	Pza. Manuel Becerra - Villa de Vallecas
145	Pza. Conde de Casal - Ensanche de Vallecas
148	Pza. Callao - Vallecas Bridge
156	Pza. Manuel Becerra - Pza. Legazpi
310	Pacific - El Pozo Station
AND	Pza. Conde de Casal - Vallecas Polytechnic
N9	Pza. Cibeles - Ensanche de Vallecas
N10	Pza. Cibeles - Palomeras
N25	Pza. Alonso Martínez - Villa de Vallecas