Lorca has a population of 93,079, making it the 72nd largest place we list in Spain. It is in Murcia.
Lorca holds 0.19% of Spain's 47,850,793 people. Madrid, the largest place we list there, is 35 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 85,756, a rise of 9%.
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.
Lorca is in Murcia, which has 68 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| San Fernando | Andalusia | 95,174 |
| Roquetas de Mar | Andalusia | 94,925 |
| Guadalajara | Castille-La Mancha | 93,470 |
| Talavera de la Reina | Castille-La Mancha | 88,856 |
| El Puerto de Santa María | Andalusia | 88,364 |
| Cornellà de Llobregat | Catalonia | 87,173 |
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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.