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Escondido, 
United States
415,167 people lived in Escondido in 2025. It is the 1356th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 45th largest in the United States.
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 Escondido'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 Escondido grew
For every 10 people in Escondido in 1980, there were 69.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 542,629 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. 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: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Escondido through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Escondido in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Escondido 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, Escondido covered 157 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 44 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 7.4 times its size, and its people are 6.9 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 Escondido, which is 415,167 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the United States, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Escondido's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1352 Yixing China415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh Egypt415,494
- 1354 Fuyang China415,492
- 1355 Moçâmedes Angola415,361
- 1356 Escondido415,167
- 1357 Batangas City Philippines415,103
- 1358 São José do Rio Preto Brazil414,406
- 1359 Sareyn Iran413,772
- 1360 Charsadda Pakistan413,686
In the United States, 2025
- 1212 Atlanta458,225
- 1284 Sterling Heights435,980
- 1302 Providence429,694
- 1329 Tucson422,107
- 1356 Escondido415,167
- 1373 Albuquerque410,810
- 1397 North Richland Hills404,680
- 1419 Stockton398,470
- 1436 Colorado Springs394,888
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Escondido 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 Escondido 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