As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,444,[1] up from 7,217 as of 2005.[2]
As of 2010, the town of Coapilla had a population of 3,187.[1] Other than the town of Coapilla, the municipality had 50 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Buenavista (Matasanos) (1,198), classified as rural.[1]
^"Coapilla". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2008.