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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2007
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,595,110 101.3 15,738.6 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 251,848 12.4 20,310.3 2
Badalona 216,201 21.2 10,207.8 3
Terrassa 202,136 70.2 2,881.1 4
Sabadell 201,712 37.8 5,337.7 5
Tarragona 134,163 65.2 2,057.4 6
Lleida 127,314 212.3 599.7 7
Mataró 119,035 22.5 5,283.4 8
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 116,765 7.0 16,680.7 9
Reus 104,835 52.8 1,984.8 10
Girona 92,186 39.1 2,356.5 11
Cornellà de Llobregat 84,477 7.0 12,085.4 12
Sant Boi de Llobregat 80,727 21.5 3,760.0 13
Sant Cugat del Vallès 74,345 48.2 1,541.5 14
Manresa 73,140 41.7 1,756.1 15
Rubí 70,494 32.3 2,182.5 16
Vilanova i la Geltrú 63,196 34.0 1,859.3 17
Prat de Llobregat, el 62,663 31.4 1,995.0 18
Viladecans 61,718 20.4 3,025.4 19
Castelldefels 58,955 12.9 4,580.8 20
Granollers 58,854 14.9 3,957.9 21
Cerdanyola del Vallès 57,758 30.6 1,890.0 22
Mollet del Vallès 51,365 10.8 4,769.3 23
Esplugues de Llobregat 46,286 4.6 10,062.2 24
Gavà 44,678 30.8 1,452.9 25
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 42,273 11.8 3,576.4 26
Figueres 41,115 19.3 2,130.3 27
Blanes 38,368 17.7 2,172.6 28
Vic 38,321 30.6 1,253.1 29
Igualada 36,923 8.1 4,552.8 30
Vilafranca del Penedès 36,656 19.6 1,865.4 31
Ripollet 35,661 4.3 8,235.8 32
Lloret de Mar 34,997 48.7 718.5 33
Tortosa 34,832 218.5 159.4 34
Vendrell, el 33,340 36.8 906.0 35
Sant Adrià de Besòs 32,734 3.8 8,569.1 36
Olot 32,337 29.0 1,113.9 37
Montcada i Reixac 32,111 23.5 1,368.2 38
Sant Joan Despí 31,671 6.2 5,133.1 39
Barberà del Vallès 29,208 8.3 3,514.8 40
Cambrils 29,112 35.2 826.8 41
Salt 27,673 6.6 4,167.6 42
Premià de Mar 27,590 2.1 13,075.8 43
Sant Pere de Ribes 27,509 40.8 674.2 44
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 27,106 9.1 2,972.1 45
Sitges 26,225 43.8 598.1 46
Martorell 25,844 12.8 2,025.4 47
Sant Andreu de la Barca 25,743 5.5 4,680.5 48
Pineda de Mar 25,568 10.7 2,380.6 49
Valls 23,948 55.3 433.2 50
Molins de Rei 23,544 15.9 1,477.0 51
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 23,443 15.8 1,480.9 52
Salou 23,398 15.1 1,546.5 53
Olesa de Montserrat 22,257 16.6 1,338.4 54
Castellar del Vallès 22,007 44.9 490.0 55
Masnou, el 21,935 3.4 6,470.5 56
Calafell 21,871 20.4 1,073.2 57
Palafrugell 21,412 26.9 796.6 58
Esparreguera 21,260 27.4 775.9 59
Sant Feliu de Guíxols 21,155 16.2 1,303.5 60
Manlleu 20,091 17.2 1,166.0 61
Source: Idescat. Municipal population record and 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 "..".