 According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Toltén spans an area of and has 11,216 inhabitants (5,827 men and 5,389 women).Of these, 4,123 (36.8%) lived in urban areas and 7,093 (63.2%) in rural areas.The population fell by 7% (845 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.