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Austria: cities by population

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Austria has a population of 9,107,266 (UN estimate, 2026), with Vienna as its capital. The 50 largest of its 2,808 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

+14%
since 2000 (8,012,928)
-4%
projected by 2050 (8,724,332)
110
people per km²
19501975200020252050 6.9M 8.7M
UN estimates to 2026; the dashed line is the medium-variant projection to 2050, a forecast rather than a measurement. Source: World Population Prospects 2024.
Full UN series, 1950 to 2050
YearPopulation
19506,936,449
19757,577,830
20008,012,928
20058,229,204
20108,365,092
20158,644,039
20208,921,405
20259,113,574
20269,107,266
2030 projected9,080,346
2050 projected8,724,332

Medium variant. Figures from 2026 onward are projections, not measurements.

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.

Largest cities in Austria

#PlaceRegionPopulation
1ViennaState of Vienna1,691,468
2GrazStyria303,270
3LinzUpper Austria204,846
4SalzburgState of Salzburg157,245
5InnsbruckTyrol132,493
6Klagenfurt am WörtherseeCarinthia100,316
7VillachCarinthia58,882
8EisenzickenBurgenland54,353
9DornbirnVorarlberg49,278
10Wiener NeustadtLower Austria44,820
11SteyrUpper Austria38,331
12FeldkirchVorarlberg33,420
13BregenzVorarlberg29,806
14BadenLower Austria26,286
15TraunUpper Austria25,345
16WolfsbergCarinthia25,035
17LustenauVorarlberg22,821
18Sankt PöltenLower Austria21,911
19MödlingLower Austria20,555
20AnsfeldenUpper Austria18,251
21WelsUpper Austria16,857
22Saalfelden am Steinernen MeerState of Salzburg16,790
23HohenemsVorarlberg16,317
24StockerauLower Austria16,292
25KlosterneuburgLower Austria15,614
26AmstettenLower Austria15,559
27TelfsTyrol15,229
28BludenzVorarlberg15,102
29PerchtoldsdorfLower Austria15,047
30Krems an der DonauLower Austria14,473
31WörglTyrol13,811
32SchwazTyrol13,728
33HardVorarlberg13,495
34Hall in TirolTyrol13,334
35GmundenUpper Austria13,191
36KorneuburgLower Austria12,986
37Spittal an der DrauCarinthia12,880
38TullnLower Austria12,421
39SchwechatLower Austria12,351
40Ried im InnkreisUpper Austria11,903
41Brunn am GebirgeLower Austria11,864
42RankweilVorarlberg11,855
43LienzTyrol11,572
44KnittelfeldStyria11,521
45GötzisVorarlberg11,473
46NeunkirchenLower Austria11,461
47GänserndorfLower Austria11,404
48Sankt Veit an der GlanCarinthia10,841
49ImstTyrol10,504
50LauterachVorarlberg10,267

Twenty years earlier: Austria in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 8,163,782.

Common questions

What is the population of Austria?
Austria has a population of 9,107,266, the UN World Population Prospects estimate for 2026. The UN's medium-variant projection for 2050 is 8,724,332 — a forecast, not a measurement.
What is the capital of Austria?
Vienna.

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Vienna
The largest place we record in Austria: 1,691,468 people
Austria in 2005
The World Gazetteer's archive edition: 8,163,782 then
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