On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Volyn Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion was significantly expanded. [3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 24,545 (2020 est.).[5] On 18 July 2022 raion was renamed to Volodymyr Raion.[6]