Only 4,002 inhabitants live in the town of Ardino and the remainder in one of the 51 villages.

[1] The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II: The municipality of Ardino has lost more than two thirds of its population in a period of seventy years.

[2] Demographic trends in the municipality of Ardino have largely been unfavourable.

A majority of the population consists of ethnic Bulgarian Turks (71.2%).

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Both ethnic Turks and Bulgarians are predominantly Islamic by faith.