District of Columbia: cities and towns by population
By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames
The largest of District of Columbia's 52 recorded places, ranked by population — 1,413,063 people across the state's towns and cities.
The essentials
Washington is the largest place we record in District of Columbia, with 689,545 residents. The three largest together hold 55% of the 1,413,063 people counted across the state's recorded towns and cities. That total sums listed places rather than measuring the state itself, so treat it as coverage, never as an official population.
All 52 places, ranked
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.