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Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Population density. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants Catalonia. 2012
Population Surface area km² Density inh./km² Ranking by number of inh.
Barcelona 1,620,943 101.4 15,993.5 1
Hospitalet de Llobregat, l' 257,057 12.4 20,730.4 2
Badalona 220,977 21.2 10,433.3 3
Terrassa 215,678 70.2 3,074.1 4
Sabadell 207,938 37.8 5,502.5 5
Lleida 139,834 212.3 658.7 6
Tarragona 133,954 57.9 2,313.5 7
Mataró 124,084 22.5 5,507.5 8
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 120,593 7.0 17,227.6 9
Reus 107,211 52.8 2,029.7 10
Girona 97,198 39.1 2,484.6 11
Cornellà de Llobregat 87,458 7.0 12,511.9 12
Sant Cugat del Vallès 84,946 48.2 1,761.3 13
Sant Boi de Llobregat 83,070 21.5 3,869.1 14
Manresa 76,570 41.7 1,838.4 15
Rubí 74,484 32.3 2,306.0 16
Vilanova i la Geltrú 66,591 34.0 1,959.1 17
Viladecans 65,188 20.4 3,195.5 18
Prat de Llobregat, el 63,162 31.4 2,010.9 19
Castelldefels 62,989 12.9 4,894.3 20
Granollers 59,954 14.9 4,031.9 21
Cerdanyola del Vallès 57,892 30.6 1,894.4 22
Mollet del Vallès 52,242 10.8 4,850.7 23
Esplugues de Llobregat 46,726 4.6 10,157.8 24
Gavà 46,488 30.8 1,511.8 25
Figueres 45,262 19.3 2,345.2 26
Sant Feliu de Llobregat 43,671 11.8 3,694.7 27
Vic 41,191 30.6 1,347.0 28
Lloret de Mar 40,837 48.7 838.4 29
Blanes 39,785 17.7 2,252.8 30
Igualada 39,198 8.1 4,833.3 31
Vilafranca del Penedès 39,035 19.6 1,986.5 32
Ripollet 37,422 4.3 8,642.5 33
Vendrell, el 36,647 36.8 995.8 34
Tortosa 34,734 218.5 159.0 35
Montcada i Reixac 34,689 23.5 1,478.0 36
Sant Adrià de Besòs 34,482 3.8 9,026.7 37
Olot 33,813 29.0 1,164.8 38
Cambrils 33,535 35.2 952.4 39
Sant Joan Despí 32,792 6.2 5,314.7 40
Barberà del Vallès 32,436 8.3 3,903.2 41
Salt 30,146 6.6 4,540.1 42
Sant Pere de Ribes 29,149 40.8 714.4 43
Sitges 29,039 43.9 662.2 44
Premià de Mar 28,145 2.1 13,338.9 45
Sant Vicenç dels Horts 28,084 9.1 3,079.4 46
Martorell 28,070 12.8 2,199.8 47
Sant Andreu de la Barca 27,306 5.5 4,964.7 48
Salou 26,601 15.1 1,758.2 49
Pineda de Mar 26,066 10.7 2,427.0 50
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda 25,606 15.8 1,617.6 51
Valls 25,084 55.3 453.8 52
Molins de Rei 24,805 20.4 1,217.1 53
Calafell 24,672 15.9 1,547.8 54
Olesa de Montserrat 23,980 16.6 1,442.0 55
Castellar del Vallès 23,363 44.9 520.2 56
Palafrugell 22,880 26.9 851.2 57
Masnou, el 22,550 3.4 6,651.9 58
Vila-seca 22,052 27.4 804.8 59
Sant Feliu de Guíxols 21,961 21.6 1,014.8 60
Esparreguera 21,856 16.2 1,346.6 61
Amposta 21,434 138.3 155.0 62
Manlleu 20,416 17.2 1,184.9 63
Source: Idescat. Municipal population record and Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: January 3, 2013.

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 "..".