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Dallas, 
United States
1,521,118 people lived in Dallas in 2025. It is the 329th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in the United States.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dallas grew
For every 10 people in Dallas in 1980, there were 272.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.9 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Dallas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dallas in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dallas 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, Dallas covered 651 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 162 km² of it. That is 106 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 26.5 times its size, and its people are 27.2 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, 4 lived in Dallas, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Dallas. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 325 Manama Bahrain1,538,872
- 326 Surakarta Indonesia1,538,599
- 327 Panama City Panama1,527,393
- 328 Brasília Brazil1,521,148
- 329 Dallas1,521,118
- 330 Gorakhpur India1,519,206
- 331 Daejeon South Korea1,517,299
- 332 Jodhpur India1,515,910
- 333 Sacramento1,514,661
In the United States, 2025
- 251 Phoenix1,972,021
- 260 San Diego1,915,114
- 290 San Antonio1,686,163
- 296 Boston1,639,797
- 329 Dallas1,521,118
- 333 Sacramento1,514,661
- 334 Austin1,513,032
- 337 Oakland1,503,319
- 359 Seattle1,403,495
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 Dallas are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Dallas 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