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Birmingham population

196,357people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Birmingham has a population of 196,357, making it the 129th largest place we list in United States. It is in Alabama.

Birmingham holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 45 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 231,621, a fall of 15%.

196,357
population
231,621
in 2005
-15.2%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Birmingham is in Alabama, which has 423 recorded places.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
AmarilloTexas198,645
AkronOhio197,542
VancouverWashington196,442
MontgomeryAlabama195,287
Grand RapidsMichigan195,097
PeoriaArizona190,985

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.