North Carolina · United States
Raleigh population
482,295people · latest figure
Raleigh has a population of 482,295, making it the 39th largest place we list in United States. It is in North Carolina.
Raleigh holds 0.14% of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 18 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 338,759, a rise of 42%.
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.
Raleigh is in North Carolina, which has 590 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | Georgia | 510,823 |
| Miami | Florida | 487,014 |
| Omaha | Nebraska | 486,051 |
| Kansas City | Missouri | 475,378 |
| Long Beach | California | 474,140 |
| Mesa | Arizona | 471,825 |
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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.