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Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population density. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Population Surface area km² Density (inhabitants/km²)
Alt Camp 45,189 538 84.0
Alt Empordà 140,428 1,358 103.4
Alt Penedès 105,670 593 178.3
Alt Urgell 22,008 1,447 15.2
Alta Ribagorça 4,284 427 10.0
Anoia 118,509 866 136.8
Bages 185,865 1,299 143.1
Baix Camp 191,947 697 275.3
Baix Ebre 82,634 1,003 82.4
Baix Empordà 133,116 702 189.7
Baix Llobregat 803,705 486 1,653.7
Baix Penedès 101,115 296 341.1
Barcelonès 2,246,280 146 15,411.9
Berguedà 41,540 1,185 35.0
Cerdanya 18,783 547 34.4
Conca de Barberà 21,290 650 32.7
Garraf 146,469 185 791.3
Garrigues 20,306 798 25.5
Garrotxa 55,597 735 75.7
Gironès 182,916 576 317.8
Maresme 434,897 399 1,091.3
Montsià 72,261 735 98.3
Noguera 40,231 1,784 22.6
Osona 154,204 1,260 122.4
Pallars Jussà 14,374 1,343 10.7
Pallars Sobirà 7,548 1,378 5.5
Pla d'Urgell 37,265 305 122.1
Pla de l'Estany 31,169 263 118.6
Priorat 10,087 499 20.2
Ribera d'Ebre 23,889 827 28.9
Ripollès 26,393 957 27.6
Segarra 23,191 723 32.1
Segrià 207,633 1,397 148.7
Selva 172,280 995 173.1
Solsonès 13,808 1,001 13.8
Tarragonès 250,142 319 783.2
Terra Alta 12,847 743 17.3
Urgell 37,396 580 64.5
Val d'Aran 10,192 634 16.1
Vallès Occidental 892,260 583 1,530.1
Vallès Oriental 399,900 851 469.9
Catalonia 7,539,618 32,108 234.8
Metropolità 4,777,042 2,464 1,938.4
Comarques Gironines 741,899 5,584 132.9
Camp de Tarragona 518,655 2,703 191.9
Terres de l'Ebre 191,631 3,308 57.9
Ponent 366,022 5,586 65.5
Comarques Centrals 395,417 4,746 83.3
Alt Pirineu i Aran 77,189 5,776 13.4
Penedès 471,763 1,941 243.1
Barcelona 5,529,099 7,726 715.6
Girona 756,810 5,905 128.2
Lleida 442,308 12,168 36.3
Tarragona 811,401 6,308 128.6
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: February 23, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Density
Total population divided by the surface area, expressed in inhabitants per square kilometre.
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.
Surface area
Extension of the territory, measured in square kilometres, which lies within the administrative boundaries of a certain municipality. Also includes enclaves that some municipalities have that are located within other counties.

Methodological aspects

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. Statistical processing of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia.

The new county of El Moianès was created on 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.

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 "..".