São José do Rio Preto has a population of 480,393, making it the 47th largest place we list in Brazil. It is in São Paulo.
São José do Rio Preto holds 0.22% of Brazil's 213,562,666 people. São Paulo, the largest place we list there, is 26 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 374,699, a rise of 28%.
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.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Macapá | Amapá | 512,902 |
| Florianópolis | Santa Catarina | 508,826 |
| Campos dos Goytacazes | Rio de Janeiro | 483,540 |
| Caxias do Sul | Rio Grande do Sul | 479,599 |
| São João de Meriti | Rio de Janeiro | 466,536 |
| Campina Grande | Paraíba | 443,911 |
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.