North Carolina · United States
Sanford population
29,144people · latest figure
Sanford has a population of 29,144, making it the 1538th largest place we list in United States. It is in North Carolina.
Sanford 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 302 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 45,289, a fall of 36%.
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.
Sanford is in North Carolina, which has 590 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Duluth | Georgia | 29,193 |
| Fort Bragg | North Carolina | 29,183 |
| Russellville | Arkansas | 29,166 |
| Harker Heights | Texas | 29,142 |
| Burbank | Illinois | 29,128 |
| Marion | Indiana | 29,081 |
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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.