The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in Spanish: Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City and Monterrey. It includes the core municipality of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, El Salto, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and Juanacatlán.

Population

In 2020 the Guadalajara metropolitan area had a population of 5,268,642 distributed in eight municipalities.

Detailed Guadalajara metropolitan area population data by INEGI
No.MunicipalityPopulation Census 2020Population Census 2015Area in km2Inhabitants per km2 (2020)
1Zapopan1,476,4911,332,2721,017.241,451.46
2Guadalajara1,385,6291,460,148150.369,215.4
3Tlaquepaque687,720664,193118.605,978.65
4Tonalá569,913536,111156.53,641.61
5Tlajomulco de Zúñiga727,750549,552682.51,066.3
6El Salto232,852183,43792.392,520.31
7Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos67,96953,045184.32368.75
8Juanacatlán30,85517,955141.22218.48
Total GMA5,268,6424,796,6032,543.132,071.71
Total population and growth rate (INEGI, 2005)
DataYear
19901995200020052010
Total population of the GMA3,003,8683,482,4173,699,1364,095,8534,434,878
Average annual growth rate2,7%1,4%1,7%1,55%

See also