New Jersey · United States
Newark population
281,944people · latest figure
Newark has a population of 281,944, making it the 73rd largest place we list in United States. It is in New Jersey.
Newark 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 31 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 280,123, almost unchanged.
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.
Newark is in New Jersey, which has 589 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Henderson | Nevada | 285,667 |
| Greensboro | North Carolina | 285,342 |
| Plano | Texas | 283,558 |
| Madison | Wisconsin | 280,305 |
| St. Louis | Missouri | 279,695 |
| Chula Vista | California | 265,757 |
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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.