San Miguel Department · El Salvador
San Miguel population
247,126people · latest figure
San Miguel has a population of 247,126, making it the 3rd largest place we list in El Salvador. It is in San Miguel Department.
San Miguel holds 3.9% of El Salvador's 6,391,253 people. San Salvador, the largest place we list there, is 2.1 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 161,880, a rise of 53%.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| San Salvador | San Salvador Department | 525,990 |
| Soyapango | San Salvador Department | 329,708 |
| Santa Ana | Santa Ana Department | 176,661 |
| Mejicanos | San Salvador Department | 160,317 |
| Santa Tecla | La Libertad Department | 124,694 |
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.