South Dakota · United States
Lead population
2,999people · latest figure
Lead has a population of 2,999, making it the 6537th largest place we list in United States. It is in South Dakota.
Lead 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 2936 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 2,874, a rise of 4%.
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.
Lead is in South Dakota, which has 152 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Chinatown | Hawaii | 3,001 |
| Iuka | Mississippi | 3,001 |
| Warm Springs | Montana | 3,000 |
| Shady Spring | West Virginia | 2,998 |
| Brighton | Tennessee | 2,996 |
| Helena Valley Northeast | Montana | 2,995 |
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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.