Montego Bay has a population of 82,867, making it the 4th largest place we list in Jamaica. It is in Saint James Parish.
Montego Bay holds 2.9% of Jamaica's 2,833,403 people. Kingston, the largest place we list there, is 11 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 82,867 for Montego Bay 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston | Kingston | 937,700 |
| Spanish Town | Saint Catherine Parish | 145,018 |
| Portmore | Saint Catherine Parish | 102,861 |
| Mandeville | Manchester | 47,115 |
| May Pen | Clarendon | 44,755 |
| Ocho Rios | Saint Ann Parish | 26,503 |
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.