California · United States
Hayward population
158,289people · latest figure
Hayward has a population of 158,289, making it the 170th largest place we list in United States. It is in California.
Hayward 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 56 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 140,494, a rise of 13%.
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.
Hayward is in California, which has 1,132 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | Virginia | 159,467 |
| Tempe Junction | Arizona | 158,368 |
| Palmdale | California | 158,351 |
| Salinas | California | 157,380 |
| Sunnyvale | California | 155,805 |
| Frisco | Texas | 154,407 |
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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.