Rhode Island: cities and towns by population
The largest of Rhode Island's 52 recorded places, ranked by population — 1,102,894 people across the state's towns and cities.
The essentials
Providence is the largest place we record in Rhode Island, with 190,934 residents. The three largest together hold 32% of the 1,102,894 people counted across the state's recorded towns and cities. That total sums listed places rather than measuring the state itself, so treat it as coverage, never as an official population.
All 52 places, ranked
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.
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Providence | 190,934 |
| 2 | Warwick | 81,699 |
| 3 | Cranston | 81,073 |
| 4 | Pawtucket | 71,591 |
| 5 | East Providence | 47,408 |
| 6 | Woonsocket | 41,475 |
| 7 | Coventry | 35,525 |
| 8 | Cumberland | 34,843 |
| 9 | North Providence | 33,835 |
| 10 | South Kingstown | 30,826 |
| 11 | West Warwick | 30,146 |
| 12 | Johnston | 29,247 |
| 13 | North Kingstown | 28,042 |
| 14 | Newport | 24,232 |
| 15 | Bristol | 22,795 |
| 16 | Smithfield | 21,872 |
| 17 | Lincoln | 21,670 |
| 18 | Central Falls | 19,303 |
| 19 | Westerly | 17,936 |
| 20 | Portsmouth | 17,756 |
| 21 | Middletown | 17,303 |
| 22 | Barrington | 16,669 |
| 23 | Narragansett | 15,868 |
| 24 | East Greenwich | 13,682 |
| 25 | Newport East | 11,769 |
| 26 | Valley Falls | 11,547 |
| 27 | Warren | 11,280 |
| 28 | North Smithfield | 11,212 |
| 29 | North Scituate | 11,171 |
| 30 | Greenville | 8,658 |
| 31 | Wakefield-Peacedale | 8,487 |
| 32 | Charlestown | 8,421 |
| 33 | Hopkinton | 8,261 |
| 34 | Cumberland Hill | 7,934 |
| 35 | Tiverton | 7,557 |
| 36 | Kingston | 6,974 |
| 37 | Exeter | 6,426 |
| 38 | West Greenwich | 6,135 |
| 39 | Jamestown | 5,755 |
| 40 | Foster | 4,598 |
| 41 | Pascoag | 4,577 |
| 42 | Narragansett Pier | 3,409 |
| 43 | Chepachet | 1,675 |
| 44 | Hope Valley | 1,612 |
| 45 | Harrisville | 1,605 |
| 46 | Ashaway | 1,485 |
| 47 | Bradford | 1,406 |
| 48 | Melville | 1,320 |
| 49 | New Shoreham | 1,047 |
| 50 | Harmony | 985 |
| 51 | Carolina | 970 |
| 52 | Greene | 888 |