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The structures of the defect perovskite Pb1−3/2xLaxTiO3 prepared by the solid-state method were investigated in the solubility range of 0.05 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.30 with 0.05 increment by x-ray Rietveld method. In the system Pb1−3/2xLaxTiO3, the atom displacements of Ti (δTi) and Pb/La (δPb/La) along the spontaneous polarization (Ps) direction (c axis) decrease nonlinearly with increasing La content, while the value of δTi/δPb/La decreases linearly. The shape of oxygen octahedron of compounds Pb1−3/2xLaxTiO3 is independent of the La content. The calculated value of Ps decreases linearly in the solubility range of 0.05 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.30. In the refinement process, the hkl dependence of diffraction line broadening was also taken into account. The anisotropy of microstrain-like broadening observed in Pb1−3/2xLaxTiO3 might be ascribed to occurrence of compositional inhomogeneity between the crystallites.