 According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Renaico spans an area of and has 9,128 inhabitants (4,508 men and 4,620 women).Of these, 6,878 (75.4%) lived in urban areas and 2,250 (24.6%) in rural areas.The population fell by 0.8% (69 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.