As per the population census done in 1991, Gujarat comes at the second place with 37.67% urban population as far as urbanization is concerned. Going by the growth of the population in cities, by 2011 it will be 50%.

After 74 th Constitutional Amendment there is a visible growth in the number of municipalities. Before 1994 there were 62 Municipalities in Gujarat . Right now the number is 141.

As per population the classification of municipalities is given below:

No.	Category	Number of Municipality
		As per 1991 census	As per 2001 census
01.	A - Class (population more than 1 lac)	9	18
02.	B - Class (population from 50,000 to 1 lac )	31	32
03.	C - Class (population from 25,000 to 50,000)	44	46
04.	D - Class (population from 15,000 to 25,000)	57	63
	TOTAL	141	159

Before 1994 there were 6 Municipal Corporation in the state. 1. Ahmedabad, 2. Vadodara, 3. Surat , 4. Jamnagar , 5. Bhavnagar , 6. Rajkot . The number reached 7 when Junagadh was later added into it.