| 2. POPULATION BY PRESENCE/ABSENCE IN THE PLACE OF CENSUS, BY SETTLEMENTS, CENSUS 2001 |
| Settlement | Total number of enumerated persons |
Total population | Inhabitants of the place of Census | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Present at the time of Census |
Absent from the place of Census | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total | In the country | Abroad | Inhabitants of the place of Census |
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| Total | School attendance | Work | Displaced persons (absent and redistributed) |
Family reasons | Other | Total | Work | Temporary stay | Employed by diplomatic or other representative bodies or by domestic companies |
Family members of a person in employment in diplomatic or other representative bodies |
Refugees | School attendance | Other | Refugees in the Republic of Croatia |
Temporarily present in the place of Census |
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| Town Novalja | 3.431 | 3.335 | 3.334 | 2.930 | 404 | 230 | 150 | 51 | - | 11 | 18 | 174 | 101 | 62 | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | - | 1 |
| Settlements | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Caska | 23 | 23 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gajac | 56 | 56 | 56 | 39 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Kustići | 130 | 130 | 130 | 119 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lun | 344 | 337 | 337 | 283 | 54 | 18 | 5 | 6 | - | 1 | 6 | 36 | 17 | 18 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Metajna | 257 | 247 | 247 | 228 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Novalja | 2.125 | 2.078 | 2.077 | 1.830 | 247 | 150 | 115 | 19 | - | 9 | 7 | 97 | 55 | 35 | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Potočnica | 16 | 6 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stara Novalja | 255 | 238 | 238 | 213 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Vidalići | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Zubovići | 223 | 218 | 218 | 192 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 12 | - | - | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |