Pennsylvania · United States
Reading population
87,879people · latest figure
Reading has a population of 87,879, making it the 393rd largest place we list in United States. It is in Pennsylvania.
Reading 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 100 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 79,799, a rise of 10%.
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.
Reading is in Pennsylvania, which has 1,372 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Sugar Land | Texas | 88,156 |
| Livermore | California | 88,126 |
| Nashua | New Hampshire | 87,970 |
| Concord | North Carolina | 87,696 |
| Indio | California | 87,533 |
| Rio Rancho | New Mexico | 87,521 |
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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.