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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Otok, Vukovar-Syrmia County

Otok (Hungarian: Atak) is a town in eastern Croatia, located 20 km south of Vinkovci, in eastern Slavonia. The settlement gained the status of town by the decision of the Parliament of Croatia on July 13, 2006. At the time, nearby Privlaka was a part of the municipality, but was subsequently declared a municipality in its own right. The population of the town of Otok is 6,343 (census 2011), with 4,694 residents in Otok itself and 1,649 in the nearby village of Komletinci. In the census of 2011, 99.31% of the population declared themselves Croats.

Town of Otok: Population trends 1857–2021
population
4745
5149
5777
5491
5500
5590
5034
5301
6036
6600
7394
7896
7721
7924
7755
6343
4899
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Otok (settlement)

Settlement of Otok: Population trends 1857–2021
population
2952
3250
3637
3475
3555
3568
3184
3295
3868
4193
4838
5519
5707
5889
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4694
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1991 census

Otok
Population by ethnicity

total: 5,889

  Croats 5,758 (97.77%)
  Serbs 25 (0.42%)
  Muslims 17 (0.28%)
  Hungarians 9 (0.15%)
  Slovaks 7 (0.11%)
  Yugoslavs 5 (0.08%)
  Albanians 3 (0.05%)
  Slovenes 2 (0.03%)
  Germans 1 (0.01%)
  Rusyns 1 (0.01%)
  nondeclared 23 (0.39%)
  unknown 38 (0.64%)

1910 census

According to the 1910 census, settlement of Otok had 3,568 inhabitants which were linguistically and religiously declared as this:

Otok
Population by language Population by religion

total: 3,568

  Croatian 3,119 (87.41%)
  German 123 (3.44%)
  Hungarian 56 (1.56%)
  Serbian 48 (1.34%)
  Slovene 41 (1.14%)
  Slovak 8 (0.22%)
  Czech 2 (0.05%)
  Italian 1 (0.02%)
  Rusyn 1 (0.02%)
  others 169 (4.73%)

total: 3,568

  Rom. Cath. 3,299 (92.46%)
  East. Orthodox 214 (5.99%)
  Jewish 18 (0.50%)
  Calvinists 17 (0.47%)
  Lutherans 11 (0.30%)
  East. Catholics 9 (0.25%)