Texas · United States
Waco population
132,356people · latest figure
Waco has a population of 132,356, making it the 214th largest place we list in United States. It is in Texas.
Waco 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 67 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 118,967, a rise of 11%.
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.
Waco is in Texas, which has 1,247 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Carrollton | Texas | 133,168 |
| Charleston | South Carolina | 132,609 |
| Midland | Texas | 132,524 |
| Sterling Heights | Michigan | 132,052 |
| Denton | Texas | 131,044 |
| Cedar Rapids | Iowa | 130,405 |
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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.