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Fort Lauderdale population

183,146people · latest figure

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

Fort Lauderdale has a population of 183,146, making it the 142nd largest place we list in United States. It is in Florida.

Fort Lauderdale 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 48 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 170,510, a rise of 7%.

183,146
population
170,510
in 2005
+7.4%
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.

Fort Lauderdale is in Florida, which has 862 recorded places.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
Overland ParkKansas186,515
Newport NewsVirginia186,247
MobileAlabama183,289
Santa ClaritaCalifornia182,371
ChattanoogaTennessee181,099
Spring ValleyNevada178,395

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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.