Finally in 1974, the last amalgamations took place, and the municipality reached its present size.

Its size of 1,818.24 square kilometres (702.03 sq mi) makes it the largest municipality in Skåne County by area.

There are 26 urban areas (Swedish: tätort, locality) in Kristianstad Municipality.

[3] In the table, the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2020.

This is a demographic table based on Kristianstad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.