 At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 129,714.The majority of inhabitants are Sunni Arabs, with considerable Sunni Kurdish and Sunni Turkmen minorities.The western part of the district is mainly inhabited by Kurds, the Turkmens are mainly concentrated south west of Suluk and the town itself and the rest of the district is almost all Arabs.The district of Tell Abyad is divided into three subdistricts or nawāḥī (population as of 2004)