El Escorial has a population of 15,842, making it the 516th largest place we list in Spain. It is in Madrid.
El Escorial holds under a tenth of one per cent of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 206 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 12,131, a rise of 31%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
El Escorial is in Madrid, which has 166 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Pasaia | Basque Country | 15,990 |
| Corvera de Asturias | Asturias | 15,955 |
| Barrio de Peral | Murcia | 15,937 |
| Sant Just Desvern | Catalonia | 15,811 |
| Santa Cruz de la Palma | Canary Islands | 15,674 |
| Los Alcázares | Murcia | 15,674 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.