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Dearborn Heights, 
United States
177,423 people lived in Dearborn Heights in 2025. It is the 3406th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 112th largest in the United States.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Dearborn Heights governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dearborn Heights grew
For every 10 people in Dearborn Heights in 1975, there were 4.5 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 152,975 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Dearborn Heights fall from 393,832 in 1975 to 152,975 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1975 figure as moderate: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Dearborn Heights through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dearborn Heights in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the United States and its 348 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New York City). Dearborn Heights is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Dearborn Heights covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 134 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 12 by 12 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has shrunk by 27%, and its people have fallen by 55%.
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 Dearborn Heights, which is 177,423 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Dearborn Heights. 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
- 3355 Sinkāt Sudan180,082
- 3375 Nouadhibou Mauritania179,362
- 3383 Bahubal Bangladesh178,981
- 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
- 3406 Dearborn Heights177,423
- 3415 Handia India176,779
- 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
- 3418 Lwambo Democratic Republic of the Congo176,648
- 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
In the United States, 2025
- 2446 Corpus Christi239,855
- 2548 Cockrell Hill230,727
- 2670 Charlotte221,000
- 2992 Lincoln Park200,040
- 3406 Dearborn Heights177,423
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Dearborn Heights 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 Dearborn Heights 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