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Population. By size of municipality. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Registered population. By size of municipality. Counties, areas and provinces 2010
Up to 500 From 501 to 2,000 From 2,001 to 5,000 From 5,001 to 10,000 From 10,001 to 50,000 More than 50,000 Total
Alt Camp 2,811 9,843 2,371 5,143 25,158 0 45,326
Alt Empordà 7,522 26,786 8,031 10,643 87,280 0 140,262
Alt Penedès 384 15,883 23,903 13,878 50,541 0 104,589
Alt Urgell 2,545 6,400 0 0 13,060 0 22,005
Alta Ribagorça 0 1,772 2,506 0 0 0 4,278
Anoia 2,694 9,542 15,848 23,604 66,369 0 118,057
Bages 1,922 10,814 19,417 65,899 10,856 76,209 185,117
Baix Camp 1,255 12,963 7,196 17,789 44,615 106,622 190,440
Baix Ebre 398 4,592 14,836 15,825 46,571 0 82,222
Baix Empordà 4,843 10,550 6,954 5,067 105,807 0 133,221
Baix Llobregat 0 1,755 14,905 35,614 386,782 359,412 798,468
Baix Penedès 0 2,615 18,747 5,469 72,955 0 99,786
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 34,104 2,216,925 2,251,029
Berguedà 3,280 7,258 8,917 5,067 17,161 0 41,683
Cerdanya 3,012 4,531 2,260 8,746 0 0 18,549
Conca de Barberà 1,975 4,978 7,102 7,382 0 0 21,437
Garraf 0 0 7,601 0 70,524 66,532 144,657
Garrigues 4,355 4,053 5,956 6,049 0 0 20,413
Garrotxa 2,504 11,322 8,024 0 33,589 0 55,439
Gironès 1,678 7,447 27,936 17,552 30,304 96,236 181,153
Maresme 0 1,934 13,983 72,236 219,939 122,905 430,997
Montsià 414 3,501 7,503 13,422 47,493 0 72,333
Noguera 4,052 12,729 6,583 0 16,766 0 40,130
Osona 4,509 8,769 37,946 27,459 74,816 0 153,499
Pallars Jussà 2,403 1,941 3,266 6,368 0 0 13,978
Pallars Sobirà 3,659 1,600 2,387 0 0 0 7,646
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,539 12,099 0 14,733 0 37,371
Pla de l'Estany 1,439 3,831 6,610 0 18,780 0 30,660
Priorat 4,971 2,239 2,935 0 0 0 10,145
Ribera d'Ebre 884 10,104 7,299 5,795 0 0 24,082
Ripollès 2,871 3,211 9,507 0 10,991 0 26,580
Segarra 3,074 4,238 0 15,628 0 0 22,940
Segrià 3,097 20,199 24,319 20,722 0 137,387 205,724
Selva 911 6,298 21,239 50,837 91,752 0 171,037
Solsonès 2,593 1,918 0 9,219 0 0 13,730
Tarragonès 519 7,441 25,191 12,588 63,795 140,184 249,718
Terra Alta 883 6,652 5,396 0 0 0 12,931
Urgell 2,697 6,876 4,942 5,618 17,189 0 37,322
Val d'Aran 674 3,896 0 5,636 0 0 10,206
Vallès Occidental 215 2,619 2,402 37,856 209,633 633,805 886,530
Vallès Oriental 1,565 5,150 29,003 76,788 172,035 112,150 396,691
Catalonia 82,608 278,789 425,120 603,899 2,053,598 4,068,367 7,512,381
Metropolità 2,164 27,341 91,797 236,372 1,143,558 3,511,729 5,012,961
Comarques Gironines 21,768 69,445 88,301 84,099 378,503 96,236 738,352
Camp de Tarragona 11,531 40,079 63,542 48,371 206,523 246,806 616,852
Terres de l'Ebre 2,579 24,849 35,034 35,042 94,064 0 191,568
Ponent 17,275 58,634 53,899 48,017 48,688 137,387 363,900
Comarques Centrals 14,998 38,301 82,128 131,248 169,202 76,209 512,086
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12,293 20,140 10,419 20,750 13,060 0 76,662
Barcelona 13,984 64,139 173,925 358,401 1,312,760 3,587,938 5,511,147
Girona 24,271 72,890 88,301 92,845 378,503 96,236 753,046
Lleida 30,243 76,832 64,318 69,240 61,748 137,387 439,768
Tarragona 14,110 64,928 98,576 83,413 300,587 246,806 808,420
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register.

Last update: December 30, 2010.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Municipality
Administrative constituency of a territorial nature, governed by a council, considered the basic unit of territorial organisation and primary element of citizen participation in public affairs, as established by Law 8/1987, of April 15 on municipalities and the local regime for Catalonia. A municipality enjoys its own autonomy, is of a legal character and has full capacity to exercise the public functions bestowed upon it, in order to represent the interests of its respective collective and to manage the public services that it assumed ownership of. The government and administration of the municipality correspond to the municipal council.
Population
All inhabitants of a given place. Since 1996, when the continuous management system was established for the Municipal Population Register, in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, official population figures for municipalities have been obtained annually using data referred to January 1 of each year.
Neighbour
Person who habitually lives in a municipality, whether present or absent on the date of reference. Acquisition of the condition of neighbour is produced as soon as that person is recorded on the civil register (padró). Those who habitually live in a municipality but are away on the date of reference are still considered neighbours of the municipality they usually live in. The concept of a neighbour substitutes the concepts of a present resident and absent resident in a municipality in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, which modified the Regulation for the population and territorial demarcation of local entities on July 11, 1986. The figure of the person in transit has also been eliminated.

Methodological aspects

The basic on information population by nationality and place of birth, as well as the population of the municipalities, is obtained from the Municipal Population Register.

The Municipal population register is the administrative record containing the residents of a given municipality and it constitutes proof that they reside in the municipality and have their usual home there. Population figures from the revision of the Register on 1 January are declared official in each of the municipalities by the Government of Spain, by means of a Royal Decree. The exploitation of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia. The official figures are available by municipality and they are broken down according to sex, age, nationality and place of birth.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".