At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 2,175 in 509 households, when it was in the former Shib Ab District of Zabol County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 2,681 people in 645 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 3,468 people in 909 households,[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Hamun County. The city and the rural district were transferred to the new Central District, with Mohammadabad as the county's capital.[3]