At the time of the 2006 National Census, Titkanlu's population was 3,630 in 950 households, when it was a village in Titkanlu Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 3,827 people in 1,118 households, by which time the village had been converted to a city. The 2016 census measured the population of Titkanlu as 3,835 people in 1,198 households.
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