Population
Batajnica experienced a constant population growth in the 20th century. A special bust to the neighborhood's population was given in the mid 1990s with a large influx of refugees from the Yugoslav Wars, especially the Oluja military action which forced almost 250,000 Serbs from Croatia into Serbia, and many of them settled at the outskirts of Belgrade.
Population of Batajnica according to the official censuses of population (until 1971 as a separate settlement, since 1981 as a neighborhood of Belgrade):
- 1921 - 2,486
- 1953 - 5,291
- 1971 - 14,567
- 1981 - 18,599
- 2002 - 30,172
- 2012 - 37,856
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