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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2019
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,636,762 101.4 16,149.6 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 264,923 12.4 21,364.8 2
Terrassa 220,556 70.2 3,143.6 3
Badalona 220,440 21.2 10,407.9 4
Sabadell 213,644 37.8 5,653.5 5
Lleida 138,956 212.3 654.5 6
Tarragona 134,515 57.9 2,324.0 7
Mataró 128,265 22.5 5,693.1 8
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 119,215 7.0 17,030.7 9
Reus 104,373 52.8 1,976.0 10
Girona 101,852 39.1 2,603.6 11
Sant Cugat del Vallès 91,006 48.2 1,886.9 12
Cornellà de Llobregat 88,592 7.0 12,674.1 13
Sant Boi de Llobregat 83,605 21.5 3,894.0 14
Manresa 77,714 41.7 1,865.9 15
Rubí 77,464 32.3 2,398.3 16
Vilanova i la Geltrú 67,086 34.0 1,973.7 17
Castelldefels 67,004 12.9 5,206.2 18
Viladecans 66,611 20.4 3,265.3 19
Prat de Llobregat, el 64,599 31.4 2,056.6 20
Granollers 61,275 14.9 4,120.7 21
Cerdanyola del Vallès 57,403 30.6 1,878.4 22
Mollet del Vallès 51,318 10.8 4,764.9 23
Gavà 46,771 30.8 1,521.0 24
Esplugues de Llobregat 46,680 4.6 10,147.8 25
Figueres 46,654 19.3 2,417.3 26
Vic 46,214 30.6 1,511.3 27
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 44,860 11.8 3,795.3 28
Igualada 39,967 8.1 4,928.1 29
Vilafranca del Penedès 39,746 19.6 2,022.7 30
Blanes 39,028 17.7 2,210.0 31
Ripollet 38,665 4.3 8,929.6 32
Lloret de Mar 38,373 48.7 787.8 33
Vendrell, el 37,606 36.8 1,021.9 34
Sant Adrià de Besòs 37,097 3.8 9,711.3 35
Montcada i Reixac 36,239 23.5 1,544.1 36
Olot 35,228 29.0 1,213.5 37
Sant Joan Despí 34,123 6.2 5,530.5 38
Cambrils 33,898 35.2 962.7 39
Tortosa 33,372 218.5 152.7 40
Barberà del Vallès 33,091 8.3 3,982.1 41
Salt 31,362 6.6 4,723.2 42
Sant Pere de Ribes 30,719 40.8 752.9 43
Sitges 29,307 43.9 668.4 44
Martorell 28,189 12.8 2,209.2 45
Premià de Mar 28,119 2.1 13,326.5 46
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 28,117 9.1 3,083.0 47
Sant Andreu de la Barca 27,558 5.5 5,010.6 48
Salou 27,476 15.1 1,816.0 49
Pineda de Mar 27,272 10.7 2,539.3 50
Calafell 26,538 20.4 1,302.2 51
Molins de Rei 25,868 15.9 1,622.8 52
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 25,799 15.8 1,629.8 53
Valls 24,359 55.3 440.7 54
Castellar del Vallès 24,187 44.9 538.6 55
Olesa de Montserrat 23,904 16.6 1,437.4 56
Masnou, el 23,515 3.4 6,936.6 57
Palafrugell 22,974 26.9 854.7 58
Esparreguera 22,251 27.4 812.1 59
Vila-seca 22,187 21.6 1,025.3 60
Sant Feliu de Guíxols 21,925 16.2 1,350.9 61
Vilassar de Mar 20,837 4.0 5,209.3 62
Amposta 20,738 138.3 149.9 63
Manlleu 20,573 17.2 1,194.0 64
Sant Quirze del Vallès 20,141 14.1 1,431.5 65
Franqueses del Vallès, les 20,092 29.1 689.5 66
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: December 27, 2019.

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 "..".