Guanacaste Province · Costa Rica
Santa Cruz population
12,281people · latest figure
Santa Cruz has a population of 12,281, making it the 41st largest place we list in Costa Rica. It is in Guanacaste Province.
Santa Cruz holds 0.24% of Costa Rica's 5,174,789 people. San José, the largest place we list there, is 27 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 12,281 for Santa Cruz in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Concepción | Cartago Province | 14,000 |
| Alajuelita | San José | 13,845 |
| Sabanilla | San José | 13,251 |
| San Josecito | Heredia Province | 12,195 |
| Escazú | San José | 12,071 |
| Naranjo | Alajuela Province | 11,853 |
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.