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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2004
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,578,546 100.4 15,724.1 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 250,536 12.4 20,204.5 2
Badalona 214,874 21.2 10,149.9 3
Sabadell 193,338 37.9 5,101.3 4
Terrassa 189,212 70.2 2,695.3 5
Tarragona 123,584 64.6 1,913.1 6
Lleida 119,935 212.3 564.9 7
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 116,503 7.0 16,643.3 8
Mataró 114,114 22.5 5,071.7 9
Reus 96,642 52.8 1,830.3 10
Girona 83,531 39.1 2,136.3 11
Cornellà de Llobregat 83,327 7.0 11,972.3 12
Sant Boi de Llobregat 80,636 21.5 3,750.5 13
Manresa 68,505 41.7 1,642.8 14
Rubí 66,425 32.3 2,056.5 15
Sant Cugat del Vallès 65,061 48.2 1,349.8 16
Prat de Llobregat, el 63,148 31.2 2,024.0 17
Viladecans 60,033 20.4 2,942.8 18
Vilanova i la Geltrú 59,409 34.0 1,747.3 19
Granollers 56,456 14.9 3,789.0 20
Cerdanyola del Vallès 56,065 30.6 1,832.8 21
Castelldefels 53,964 12.9 4,193.0 22
Mollet del Vallès 50,691 10.8 4,693.6 23
Esplugues de Llobregat 45,915 4.6 9,981.5 24
Gavà 43,242 30.8 1,404.0 25
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 41,954 11.8 3,555.4 26
Figueres 37,032 19.3 1,918.8 27
Vic 36,571 30.6 1,195.1 28
Blanes 35,577 17.7 2,012.3 29
Igualada 35,195 8.1 4,345.1 30
Vilafranca del Penedès 34,409 19.7 1,746.6 31
Ripollet 33,605 4.3 7,815.1 32
Sant Adrià de Besòs 32,921 3.8 8,663.4 33
Tortosa 31,979 218.5 146.4 34
Montcada i Reixac 30,953 23.4 1,322.8 35
Olot 30,306 29.1 1,041.4 36
Sant Joan Despí 30,242 6.2 4,877.7 37
Vendrell, el 28,147 36.8 764.9 38
Premià de Mar 27,464 2.1 13,078.1 39
Barberà del Vallès 27,202 8.3 3,273.4 40
Lloret de Mar 26,557 48.7 545.3 41
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 26,477 9.2 2,877.9 42
Salt 25,912 6.6 3,926.1 43
Sant Pere de Ribes 25,280 40.8 619.6 44
Martorell 25,010 12.7 1,969.3 45
Cambrils 24,604 35.3 697.8 46
Sant Andreu de la Barca 23,675 5.5 4,304.5 47
Pineda de Mar 23,539 10.8 2,179.5 48
Sitges 23,172 43.9 527.8 49
Molins de Rei 22,496 15.9 1,414.8 50
Valls 22,237 55.3 402.1 51
Masnou, el 21,196 3.4 6,234.1 52
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 20,844 15.8 1,319.2 53
Olesa de Montserrat 20,294 16.6 1,222.5 54
Esparreguera 20,163 27.4 735.9 55
Source: Idescat i Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: October 8, 2009.

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 "..".