Louisiana · United States
Lake Charles population
76,070people · latest figure
Lake Charles has a population of 76,070, making it the 489th largest place we list in United States. It is in Louisiana.
Lake Charles 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 116 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 70,309, a rise of 8%.
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.
Lake Charles is in Louisiana, which has 371 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Baytown | Texas | 76,335 |
| San Ramon | California | 76,134 |
| Camden | New Jersey | 76,119 |
| Kalamazoo | Michigan | 76,041 |
| Brick | New Jersey | 76,021 |
| Arlington Heights | Illinois | 75,926 |
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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.