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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2005
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,593,075 100.4 15,868.9 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 252,884 12.4 20,393.9 2
Badalona 218,553 21.2 10,323.7 3
Sabadell 196,971 37.9 5,197.1 4
Terrassa 194,947 70.2 2,777.0 5
Tarragona 128,152 64.6 1,983.8 6
Lleida 124,709 212.3 587.4 7
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 118,129 7.0 16,875.6 8
Mataró 116,698 22.5 5,186.6 9
Reus 99,505 52.8 1,884.6 10
Girona 86,672 39.1 2,216.7 11
Cornellà de Llobregat 84,131 7.0 12,087.8 12
Sant Boi de Llobregat 81,181 21.5 3,775.9 13
Sant Cugat del Vallès 70,514 48.2 1,462.9 14
Manresa 70,343 41.7 1,686.9 15
Rubí 68,102 32.3 2,108.4 16
Prat de Llobregat, el 63,190 31.2 2,025.3 17
Vilanova i la Geltrú 61,427 34.0 1,806.7 18
Viladecans 61,043 20.4 2,992.3 19
Granollers 57,796 14.9 3,878.9 20
Cerdanyola del Vallès 57,114 30.6 1,867.1 21
Castelldefels 56,718 12.9 4,407.0 22
Mollet del Vallès 51,218 10.8 4,742.4 23
Esplugues de Llobregat 46,550 4.6 10,119.6 24
Gavà 44,210 30.8 1,435.4 25
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 42,267 11.8 3,581.9 26
Figueres 38,884 19.3 2,014.7 27
Vic 37,825 30.6 1,236.1 28
Blanes 36,711 17.7 2,076.4 29
Igualada 35,933 8.1 4,436.2 30
Vilafranca del Penedès 35,864 19.7 1,820.5 31
Ripollet 34,735 4.3 8,077.9 32
Tortosa 33,705 218.5 154.3 33
Sant Adrià de Besòs 32,940 3.8 8,668.4 34
Montcada i Reixac 31,725 23.4 1,355.8 35
Olot 31,271 29.1 1,074.6 36
Sant Joan Despí 31,162 6.2 5,026.1 37
Vendrell, el 30,225 36.8 821.3 38
Lloret de Mar 29,445 48.7 604.6 39
Barberà del Vallès 27,827 8.3 3,348.6 40
Premià de Mar 27,653 2.1 13,168.1 41
Salt 27,370 6.6 4,147.0 42
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 26,676 9.2 2,899.6 43
Cambrils 26,209 35.3 742.5 44
Sant Pere de Ribes 26,108 40.8 639.9 45
Martorell 25,766 12.7 2,028.8 46
Sant Andreu de la Barca 24,863 5.5 4,520.5 47
Pineda de Mar 24,702 10.8 2,287.2 48
Sitges 24,470 43.9 557.4 49
Molins de Rei 23,069 15.9 1,450.9 50
Valls 22,851 55.3 413.2 51
Masnou, el 21,464 3.4 6,312.9 52
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 21,409 15.8 1,355.0 53
Olesa de Montserrat 21,114 16.6 1,271.9 54
Esparreguera 20,740 27.4 756.9 55
Palafrugell 20,509 26.9 762.4 56
Castellar del Vallès 20,437 44.9 455.2 57
Sant Feliu de Guíxols 20,318 16.2 1,254.2 58
Salou 20,139 15.1 1,333.7 59
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 "..".