At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 173,832 in 42,508 households, when it was in the former Qarchak District of Varamin County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 191,588 people in 52,769 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 231,075 people in 69,029 households,[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Qarchak County. Qarchak was transferred to the new Central District as the county's capital.[4]
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