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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2008
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,615,908 101.0 15,943.8 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 253,782 12.0 20,466.3 2
Badalona 215,329 21.0 10,166.6 3
Terrassa 206,245 70.0 2,939.6 4
Sabadell 203,969 38.0 5,397.4 5
Tarragona 137,536 65.0 2,109.1 6
Lleida 131,731 212.0 620.5 7
Mataró 119,780 23.0 5,316.5 8
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 117,336 7.0 16,762.3 9
Reus 107,770 53.0 2,040.3 10
Girona 94,484 39.0 2,415.2 11
Cornellà de Llobregat 85,180 7.0 12,186.0 12
Sant Boi de Llobregat 81,335 21.0 3,788.3 13
Sant Cugat del Vallès 76,274 48.0 1,581.5 14
Manresa 75,053 42.0 1,802.0 15
Rubí 71,927 32.0 2,226.8 16
Vilanova i la Geltrú 64,905 34.0 1,909.5 17
Prat de Llobregat, el 62,899 31.0 2,002.5 18
Viladecans 62,573 20.0 3,067.3 19
Castelldefels 60,572 13.0 4,706.4 20
Granollers 60,122 15.0 4,043.2 21
Cerdanyola del Vallès 58,493 31.0 1,914.0 22
Mollet del Vallès 51,912 11.0 4,820.1 23
Esplugues de Llobregat 46,586 5.0 10,127.4 24
Gavà 45,190 31.0 1,469.6 25
Figueres 42,809 19.0 2,218.1 26
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 42,628 12.0 3,606.4 27
Blanes 39,107 18.0 2,214.4 28
Vic 38,964 31.0 1,274.2 29
Igualada 38,164 8.0 4,705.8 30
Lloret de Mar 37,734 49.0 774.7 31
Vilafranca del Penedès 37,364 20.0 1,901.5 32
Ripollet 36,255 4.0 8,373.0 33
Tortosa 35,734 219.0 163.5 34
Vendrell, el 34,931 37.0 949.2 35
Sant Adrià de Besòs 33,223 4.0 8,697.1 36
Olot 32,903 29.0 1,133.4 37
Montcada i Reixac 32,750 23.0 1,395.4 38
Sant Joan Despí 31,647 6.0 5,129.2 39
Cambrils 30,956 35.0 879.2 40
Barberà del Vallès 30,271 8.0 3,642.7 41
Salt 28,763 7.0 4,331.8 42
Sant Pere de Ribes 28,066 41.0 687.9 43
Premià de Mar 27,545 2.0 13,054.5 44
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 27,461 9.0 3,011.1 45
Sitges 27,070 44.0 617.3 46
Sant Andreu de la Barca 26,279 6.0 4,778.0 47
Martorell 26,169 13.0 2,050.9 48
Pineda de Mar 25,931 11.0 2,414.4 49
Salou 25,754 15.0 1,702.2 50
Valls 24,710 55.0 447.0 51
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 24,325 16.0 1,536.6 52
Molins de Rei 23,828 16.0 1,494.9 53
Calafell 22,939 20.0 1,125.6 54
Olesa de Montserrat 22,914 17.0 1,377.9 55
Castellar del Vallès 22,626 45.0 503.8 56
Palafrugell 22,109 27.0 822.5 57
Masnou, el 22,066 3.0 6,509.1 58
Sant Feliu de Guíxols 21,726 16.0 1,338.6 59
Esparreguera 21,451 27.0 782.9 60
Amposta 20,652 138.0 149.3 61
Manlleu 20,505 17.0 1,190.1 62
Vila-seca 20,039 22.0 926.0 63
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 "..".