Arizona · United States
Surprise population
143,148people · latest figure
Surprise has a population of 143,148, making it the 195th largest place we list in United States. It is in Arizona.
Surprise 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 62 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 65,450, a rise of 119%.
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.
Surprise is in Arizona, which has 277 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Mesquite | Texas | 144,788 |
| Syracuse | New York | 144,142 |
| Torrance | California | 143,592 |
| Columbia | South Carolina | 142,416 |
| Pasadena | California | 142,250 |
| Orange | California | 140,992 |
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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.