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Population. By size of municipality. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population. By size of municipality. Counties, areas and provinces 2025
Up to 500 From 501 to 2,000 From 2,001 to 5,000 From 5,001 to 10,000 From 10,001 to 50,000 More than 50,000 Total
Alt Camp 2,116 11,713 2,412 5,357 25,540 0 47,138
Alt Empordà 8,304 27,708 10,688 10,697 92,647 0 150,044
Alt Penedès 367 13,236 31,037 15,967 55,491 0 116,098
Alt Urgell 2,178 6,296 0 0 13,003 0 21,477
Alta Ribagorça 497 1,129 2,425 0 0 0 4,051
Anoia 2,633 8,359 19,435 5,598 93,931 0 129,956
Aran 671 4,123 0 5,857 0 0 10,651
Bages 1,690 4,914 30,016 49,032 21,276 80,692 187,620
Baix Camp 789 10,298 12,982 19,829 51,720 111,911 207,529
Baix Ebre 355 4,310 15,038 16,042 48,332 0 84,077
Baix Empordà 5,076 11,000 6,838 5,972 115,932 0 144,818
Baix Llobregat 0 0 18,636 39,820 417,363 381,048 856,867
Baix Penedès 0 3,291 21,800 5,701 89,928 0 120,720
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 38,980 2,359,300 2,398,280
Berguedà 4,019 5,895 8,988 5,082 17,539 0 41,523
Cerdanya 2,292 5,477 2,289 0 10,053 0 20,111
Conca de Barberà 2,769 3,687 6,724 7,568 0 0 20,748
Garraf 0 0 4,473 5,494 82,951 71,305 164,223
Garrigues 4,014 3,107 5,689 6,458 0 0 19,268
Garrotxa 2,328 12,480 9,015 0 39,516 0 63,339
Gironès 1,235 8,985 18,942 25,683 45,770 108,352 208,967
Lluçanès 1,204 1,760 2,759 0 0 0 5,723
Maresme 0 2,296 11,252 66,938 265,519 131,370 477,375
Moianès 864 4,451 2,742 6,807 0 0 14,864
Montsià 445 3,011 7,625 12,419 49,325 0 72,825
Noguera 4,512 9,537 8,241 0 17,667 0 39,957
Osona 3,226 8,081 37,420 30,159 36,655 50,405 165,946
Pallars Jussà 1,905 2,353 3,179 6,156 0 0 13,593
Pallars Sobirà 3,480 1,565 2,287 0 0 0 7,332
Pla d'Urgell 0 10,650 11,863 0 16,016 0 38,529
Pla de l'Estany 1,417 4,307 7,217 0 20,887 0 33,828
Priorat 4,885 1,638 2,892 0 0 0 9,415
Ribera d'Ebre 759 9,054 6,707 5,841 0 0 22,361
Ripollès 2,834 3,075 9,193 0 10,812 0 25,914
Segarra 3,170 2,338 0 17,345 0 0 22,853
Segrià 3,382 18,157 28,413 13,753 10,556 147,369 221,630
Selva 931 4,931 25,450 57,388 98,608 0 187,308
Solsonès 2,636 3,201 0 9,741 0 0 15,578
Tarragonès 165 6,661 18,206 37,674 73,366 143,260 279,332
Terra Alta 1,234 7,000 3,151 0 0 0 11,385
Urgell 1,959 7,175 0 11,169 18,991 0 39,294
Vallès Occidental 171 928 4,761 43,434 224,621 696,313 970,228
Vallès Oriental 1,209 5,185 20,103 66,896 220,076 117,882 431,351
Catalonia 81,721 263,362 440,888 615,877 2,323,071 4,399,207 8,124,126
Metropolità 1,463 9,875 57,494 217,088 1,166,559 3,685,913 5,138,392
Comarques Gironines 22,125 72,486 87,343 99,740 424,172 108,352 814,218
Camp de Tarragona 10,724 33,997 43,216 70,428 150,626 255,171 564,162
Terres de l'Ebre 2,793 23,375 32,521 34,302 97,657 0 190,648
Ponent 17,037 50,964 54,206 48,725 63,230 147,369 381,531
Comarques Centrals 14,793 27,389 82,810 100,821 75,470 131,097 432,380
Alt Pirineu i Aran 11,023 20,943 10,180 12,013 23,056 0 77,215
Penedès 1,763 24,333 73,118 32,760 322,301 71,305 525,580
Barcelona 14,747 55,628 191,622 335,227 1,474,402 3,888,315 5,959,941
Girona 23,934 76,835 87,343 99,740 434,225 108,352 830,429
Lleida 29,523 70,236 64,386 70,479 76,233 147,369 458,226
Tarragona 13,517 60,663 97,537 110,431 338,211 255,171 875,530
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Annual Population Census.
Note: As of May 2023, the data are presented according to the current territorial distribution (in accordance with Law 7/2023, on the creation of El Lluçanès county, which also territorially modifies Osona).

Last update: December 2, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Municipality
Administrative constituency of a territorial nature, governed by a council, considered the basic unit of territorial organisation and primary element of citizen participation in public affairs, as established by Law 8/1987, of April 15 on municipalities and the local regime for Catalonia. A municipality enjoys its own autonomy, is of a legal character and has full capacity to exercise the public functions bestowed upon it, in order to represent the interests of its respective collective and to manage the public services that it assumed ownership of. The government and administration of the municipality correspond to the municipal council.
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.
Neighbour
Person who habitually lives in a municipality, whether present or absent on the date of reference. Acquisition of the condition of neighbour is produced as soon as that person is recorded on the civil register (padró). Those who habitually live in a municipality but are away on the date of reference are still considered neighbours of the municipality they usually live in. The concept of a neighbour substitutes the concepts of a present resident and absent resident in a municipality in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, which modified the Regulation for the population and territorial demarcation of local entities on July 11, 1986. The figure of the person in transit has also been eliminated.

Methodological aspects

A partir de 2021 la font d'informació és el cens de població.

El Cens de població té periodicitat anual a partir de l'any 2021 i s'elabora mitjançant la combinació de registres administratius, on el Padró d'habitants n'és l'element bàsic. En l'elaboració del Cens de població s'apliquen tractaments i procediments estadístics que inclouen contrastos amb altres fonts i permeten oferir un recompte estadístic més acurat de la població i de les seves característiques que el Padró d'habitants.

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. Population figures from the revision of the Register as of 1 January are declared official in each of the municipalities by the Government of Spain, by means of a Royal Decree. The exploitation of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia. The official figures are available by municipality and they are broken down according to sex, age, nationality and place of birth.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.