Demographics
In 2005 there were about 4,000 Bosniaks in the municipality, about a third of the population.
| Year of census | total | Muslims | Serbs | Croats | Yugoslavs | others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 36,666 | 27,572 (75.19%) | 8,315 (22.67%) | 38 (0.10%) | 380 (1.03%) | 361 (0.98%) |
| 1981 | 36,292 | 24,930 (68.69%) | 10,294 (28.36%) | 80 (0.22%) | 602 (1.65%) | 386 (1.06%) |
| 1971 | 33,357 | 20,968 (62.85%) | 11,918 (35.72%) | 109 (0.32%) | 121 (0.36%) | 241 (0.72%) |
| 1961 | 29,283 | 14,565 (49.74%) | 12,540 (42.82%) | 71 (0.24%) | 1,967 (6.71%) | |
| 1953 | 46,647 | 23,545 (50.47%) | 106 (0.45%) | 22,791 (48.86%) | ||
| 1948 | 39,954 | 20,195 (50.55%) | 52 (0.13%) | 19,671 (49.23%) | ||
| 1931 | 35,210 | 17,332 (49.2%) | 17,766 (50.5%) | 103 (0.29%) |
The borders of the municipality in the 1953 and 1961 census were different. In 1953, Muslims by nationality had been yet to emerge as an ethnicity leading Slavic Muslims to identify as Yugoslavs. As Yugoslav was itself not adopted in 1948, they were all classified as other.
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