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Durango, 
Mexico
541,787 people lived in Durango in 2025. It is the 1019th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in Mexico.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Durango's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Durango grew
Count 10 people in Durango in 1975 and the same count gives 29.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 560,764 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Durango through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Durango in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Durango is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico 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, Durango covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 54 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 4 lived in Durango, which is 541,787 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Durango. 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
- 1015 Salt Lake City United States542,449
- 1016 Djelfa Algeria542,414
- 1017 Leipzig Germany542,313
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1020 Chengtougu China541,451
- 1021 Kendal Indonesia541,030
- 1022 Honolulu United States540,683
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
In Mexico, 2025
- 877 Reynosa615,168
- 901 Tampico603,035
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez580,878
- 1018 Xalapa542,213
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
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 Durango 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 Durango 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