Michigan · United States
Detroit population
645,705people · latest figure
Detroit has a population of 645,705, making it the 26th largest place we list in United States. It is in Michigan.
Detroit holds 0.18% of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 14 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 884,941, a fall of 27%.
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.
Detroit is in Michigan, which has 548 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| El Paso | Texas | 678,815 |
| Boston | Massachusetts | 653,833 |
| Portland | Oregon | 652,503 |
| Las Vegas | Nevada | 641,903 |
| Memphis | Tennessee | 633,104 |
| Louisville | Kentucky | 624,444 |
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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.