Demographics
According to the 2011 census, the Karlovac municipality had a total population of 55,981.
In 2001 50,997 of its citizens were Croats (85.86%), 5,076 were Serbs (8.55%), 186 were Albanians (0.31%), 149 were Bosniaks (0.52%), 71 were ethnic Macedonians (0.12%), 59 were Montenegrins (0.10%), and the rest were other ethnicities. Complete results are still being awaited for the 2011 Census.
Population by religion in 2001 was following: 49,197 Roman Catholics (82.83%), 4,414 Orthodox Christians (7.43%), 653 Muslims (1.10%), 93 Byzantine Catholics (0.16%) and others.
Much of the population of Karlovac has changed since the beginning of the 1991-95 Croatian War of Independence, with numerous families of Croatian Serbs leaving and being replaced by people who were themselves displaced from parts of Croatia that were held by rebel Serbs during the war (such as from the town of Slunj), as well as by families of Bosnian Croats who started arriving during the war. The migration outflow was mostly towards Serbia, the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to countries of Western Europe, North America and Australia.
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