The statistics don’t lie: the demographic increase of the province of Seville as a whole has little or no reflection.The least populated municipalities, those with less than a thousand inhabitantswhich, with a few minor exceptions, are losing population or stagnating in their … usual figures.
according to the latest update of annual census, the province of Seville currently has 1,977,664 registered inhabitants after gaining 9,040 people last yearwhile between 2021 and 2025 it increased by more than 27,600 registered inhabitants.
In the case of the municipal register, it shows an annual growth of An additional 8,878 people registered in the province, for a total of 1,976. 624 legal neighborsafter adding 26,405 people since 2020.
But as has been pointed out, this demographic evolution is not reflected equally across the province, since it is concentrated especially in the metropolitan area, where the Seville capital added 1,935 inhabitants during the year 2024 and as of January 1, 2025, which is indicative of the latest update; had 689,423 registered residentsthus making three consecutive years since it hit bottom in 2022 with 681,998 registered residents after its prolonged population decline.
And the city of Seville had more than 704,000 inhabitants in 2006, before falling into crisis.continued loss of population, at the same time as major neighbors gained neighbors municipalities of its first metropolitan ring, in what has been interpreted as a clear demographic transfer from the capital to the nearest large centers.
Municipalities such as Dos Hermanas, Alcalá de Guadaíra or Mairena del Aljarafe have experienced clear demographic growth
Because Dos Hermanas has 142,519 inhabitants according to the latest revision of the register, with an increase of 2,089 people in just one year and 7,469 since 2020. Alcalá de Guadaíra, for its part, currently has 77,474 registered residents after gaining 552 inhabitants in a year and 1,941 since 2020; while Mairena del Aljarafe already has 48,017 registered residents, 119 more in one year and 1,462 since 2020.
It also stands out in the first metropolitan area La Rinconada, which already has 40,724 registered inhabitants after adding 195 more in the last update and 1,692 since 2020; to cite the main towns in the immediate periphery of Seville.
This scenario of a clear increase in population does not translate into the least populated municipalities, those of less than a thousand inhabitantsas reflected in the latest update of the register, with data as of January 1, 2025.
Neighbors of El Madroño on the town’s main street
In detail, examination of the municipal register shows that El Madroño, the least populated city in the province, lost nine inhabitants in one yeargoing from 305 to 286 neighbors, since in 2020 it had 287 people registered, one more than at the beginning of this year. The second least populated Sevillian town, San Nicolás del Puerto, in the heart of the Sierra Morena, for its part gained four inhabitants, going from 600 to 604, after having counted 596 in 2020 and in 2021 and 2023 a total of 608, which reflects a demographic stagnation of this municipality.
The third least populated municipality is Castilleja del Campowhich lost a neighbor during the last update of the municipal register and has 611, considerably less than the 640 it had in 2020.
In the case of The Garrobothe update of the municipal register shows the loss of 12 inhabitants in one year, so the municipality had 800 people registered on January 1, 2025, although in 2020 it had 782 inhabitants, but in 2023 it reached 825.
Lora de Estepa, the fifth smallest town in the province, in turn gained two inhabitants and it has 890, while in 2020 it had 873; and Villanueva de San Juan, also with less than a thousand inhabitants and the sixth least populated city in Seville, has 986 registered residents. after losing 16 neighborssince in 2020, it had 1,090 people registered.
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