Western Area · Sierra Leone
Waterloo population
55,000people · latest figure
Waterloo has a population of 55,000, making it the 6th largest place we list in Sierra Leone. It is in Western Area.
Waterloo holds 0.61% of Sierra Leone's 8,996,745 people. Freetown, the largest place we list there, is 15 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 19,750, a rise of 178%.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bo | Southern Province | 233,684 |
| Koidu | Eastern Province | 128,030 |
| Makeni | Northern Province | 85,116 |
| Port Loko | North West | 44,900 |
| Njala | Southern Province | 40,000 |
| Lunsar | Northern Province | 22,461 |
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.