May Pen has a population of 44,755, making it the 6th largest place we list in Jamaica. It is in Clarendon.
May Pen holds 1.6% of Jamaica's 2,833,403 people. Kingston, the largest place we list there, is 21 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 44,755 for May Pen in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Portmore | Saint Catherine Parish | 102,861 |
| Montego Bay | Saint James Parish | 82,867 |
| Mandeville | Manchester | 47,115 |
| Ocho Rios | Saint Ann Parish | 26,503 |
| Old Harbour | Saint Catherine Parish | 26,024 |
| Linstead | Saint Catherine Parish | 20,660 |
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.