Free State · South Africa
Welkom population
431,944people · latest figure
Welkom has a population of 431,944, making it the 16th largest place we list in South Africa. It is in Free State.
Welkom holds 0.66% of South Africa's 65,453,084 people. Johannesburg, the largest place we list there, is 22 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 431,944 for Welkom 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 |
|---|---|---|
| East London | Eastern Cape | 478,676 |
| Vereeniging | Gauteng | 474,681 |
| Boksburg | Gauteng | 445,168 |
| Newcastle | KwaZulu-Natal | 404,838 |
| Krugersdorp | Gauteng | 378,821 |
| Rustenburg | North West | 373,695 |
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.