Northern Cape · South Africa
Kimberley population
142,089people · latest figure
Kimberley has a population of 142,089, making it the 47th largest place we list in South Africa. It is in Northern Cape.
Kimberley holds 0.22% of South Africa's 65,453,084 people. Johannesburg, the largest place we list there, is 66 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 142,089 for Kimberley 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pinetown | KwaZulu-Natal | 144,026 |
| Ladysmith | KwaZulu-Natal | 143,446 |
| eMbalenhle | Mpumalanga | 142,443 |
| Nigel | Gauteng | 140,644 |
| Mpumalanga | KwaZulu-Natal | 140,121 |
| Bhisho | Eastern Cape | 137,287 |
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.