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Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2017
Population Surface area km² Density (inhabitants/km²)
Alt Camp 43,995 538 82.0
Alt Empordà 139,705 1,358 103.2
Alt Penedès 106,930 593 179.3
Alt Urgell 20,296 1,447 14.2
Alta Ribagorça 3,827 427 9.1
Anoia 118,277 866 135.6
Aran 9,985 634 15.7
Bages 175,095 1,092 159.7
Baix Camp 187,471 697 270.2
Baix Ebre 78,180 1,003 78.8
Baix Empordà 132,906 702 189.0
Baix Llobregat 813,996 486 1,666.5
Baix Penedès 100,850 296 336.7
Barcelonès 2,248,227 146 15,319.6
Berguedà 39,013 1,185 33.0
Cerdanya 17,623 547 32.4
Conca de Barberà 20,036 650 31.1
Garraf 147,504 185 793.5
Garrigues 18,975 798 23.9
Garrotxa 56,184 735 76.2
Gironès 188,083 576 323.4
Maresme 444,046 399 1,107.8
Moianès 13,279 338 39.1
Montsià 67,491 735 92.0
Noguera 38,726 1,784 21.8
Osona 156,572 1,245 125.0
Pallars Jussà 13,280 1,343 10.0
Pallars Sobirà 6,947 1,378 5.1
Pla d'Urgell 36,614 305 120.3
Pla de l'Estany 31,738 263 120.1
Priorat 9,345 499 18.8
Ribera d'Ebre 22,203 827 27.2
Ripollès 24,999 957 26.2
Segarra 22,736 723 31.4
Segrià 208,059 1,397 149.6
Selva 167,837 995 168.5
Solsonès 13,360 1,001 13.3
Tarragonès 250,488 319 781.4
Terra Alta 11,634 743 15.8
Urgell 36,028 580 62.2
Vallès Occidental 910,031 583 1,550.7
Vallès Oriental 403,259 735 546.0
Catalonia 7,555,830 32,108 234.3
Metropolità 4,823,361 2,464 1,945.2
Comarques Gironines 741,452 5,584 132.4
Camp de Tarragona 511,335 2,703 189.3
Terres de l'Ebre 179,508 3,308 54.7
Ponent 361,138 5,586 64.9
Comarques Centrals 398,767 4,941 80.7
Alt Pirineu i Aran 71,958 5,776 12.6
Penedès 468,311 1,746 268.3
Barcelona 5,576,037 7,726 717.4
Girona 755,716 5,905 127.6
Lleida 432,384 12,168 35.7
Tarragona 791,693 6,308 125.6
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: April 10, 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 "..".