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Corpus Christi, 
United States
239,855 people lived in Corpus Christi in 2025. It is the 2446th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 83rd largest in the United States.
Like every city on this site, Corpus Christi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Corpus Christi grew
Where Corpus Christi had 10 people in 1975, it had 42 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 332,286 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Corpus Christi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Corpus Christi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Corpus Christi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York City, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Corpus Christi covered 115 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 115 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Corpus Christi, which is 239,855 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Corpus Christi; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2437 Payyanur India240,715
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm Vietnam240,480
- 2439 Fenghua District China240,478
- 2445 Somerset West South Africa239,943
- 2446 Corpus Christi239,855
- 2448 Dohrighat India239,251
- 2450 Đà Lạt Vietnam239,212
- 2458 Dosso Niger238,280
- 2459 Derudeib Sudan238,164
In the United States, 2025
- 2335 Laredo249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay249,822
- 2344 Edgecliff Village249,260
- 2384 Cinco Ranch244,538
- 2446 Corpus Christi239,855
- 2548 Cockrell Hill230,727
- 2670 Charlotte221,000
- 2992 Lincoln Park200,040
- 3406 Dearborn Heights177,423
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Corpus Christi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Corpus Christi publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries