The municipality embraces a territory of 523 km (202 sq mi) with a population of 19,331 inhabitants, as of 2018.
The area is best known with the Balchik Palace complex in the main town as well as the luxury seaside resort of Albena.
The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Balchik Municipality
Year
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
24,254
23,978
22,367
22,354
22,038
21,962
21,832
...
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“,
Religion
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: