Establishing who the most distrustful Spaniards of all are is one of the most complicated tasks of all. Distrust is something that all human beings have experienced at least once in their lives. This may appear due to personal experiences, social contexts and risk perceptions that vary between people. However, there is an Andalusian study that shows what is the province of that community that has the most distrustful citizens of all.
This was thanks to a survey carried out in 2023 by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA)which assured that the people of Almería are the most distrustful of all Andalusians.
According to the final conclusions, 69.7% of women said that ‘they are always alert’ before any type of thing, and in In the case of men, this value corresponded to 57.4%. However, at a more general level, A total of 63.3% of the citizens of Almería are very distrustful.
Almería: the most suspicious province in Andalusia
On the opposite side is 33.4% of people, which reflect that they can trust people at all times. Subdividing it by gender, the results are as follows: 37.5% of men trust others compared to 28.9% of women; The answer that the respondents marked here was the following: “You can almost always trust people”.
Continuing in this same aspect, the province of Andalusia that stands out from the others for being ‘the one that trusts the most’ is Granda. IECA research has concluded that 45.1% of Granadans can trust others (44.6% for men and 45.5% for women, very similar values).
Eight out of ten Cordobans are not afraid to walk alone on the street
The study does not end there, since it also The fear of walking at night when it is night was taken into accounttime of day when there is a greater tendency to distrust because it is dark and you can travel on the road without anyone accompanied, a reason that feeds that fear even more. In this sense, Almería has once again won the gold medal.
18.9% of them consider that they are afraid when they walk on the street at night. Here the values of women are overwhelming over those of men, in fact they double them with 26.8% over 11.8%, respectively. Besides, another 6.5% say that it is not because they feel insecurebut they have a excessive fear to it.
For their part, 41% respond that they do feel safe, with 54.3% for men and half of this value for women (27%).. As for people who feel “quite safe”the percentages of both are quite similar: 35% for men and 31.2% for womensurprising data given the history that the female gender has shown in research. Finally, The safest Andalusians when it comes to walking alone at night are those from Cordoba, with an overwhelming 82.3%.