Virginia · United States
Sterling population
27,822people · latest figure
Sterling has a population of 27,822, making it the 1616th largest place we list in United States. It is in Virginia.
Sterling 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 316 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 53,319, a fall of 48%.
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.
Sterling is in Virginia, which has 451 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley | New York | 27,854 |
| Livingston | New Jersey | 27,853 |
| Round Lake Beach | Illinois | 27,852 |
| Middletown | New York | 27,812 |
| Fountain | Colorado | 27,767 |
| Saratoga Springs | New York | 27,765 |
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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.