At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 1,308 in 441 households, when it was a village in Tarq Rud Rural District.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 991 people in 458 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population as 1,749 people in 726 households,[2] by which time the village of Tarq had merged with the villages of Abkesheh, Baghestan-e Bala, Baghestan-e Pain, Kesheh, and Yahyaabad, to form the city of Tarqrud.[3]