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Glenfield, 
New Zealand
275,322 people lived in Glenfield in 2025. It is the 2106th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in New Zealand.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Glenfield governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Glenfield grew
Where Glenfield had 10 people in 1995, it had 27.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 310,345 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
Glenfield through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Glenfield in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
New Zealand · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 10 cities in New Zealand in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Auckland. The ringed dot in colour is Glenfield; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Glenfield covered 120 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 116 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 72%, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in New Zealand
Its share of New Zealand
Of every 100 people in New Zealand in 2025, 5 lived in Glenfield, which is 275,322 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in New Zealand, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Glenfield's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2101 San Pablo Philippines276,250
- 2103 Jiroft Iran276,001
- 2104 Iași Romania275,840
- 2105 Erin Woods Canada275,476
- 2106 Glenfield275,322
- 2107 Morbi India275,191
- 2108 Pinggu China274,753
- 2109 Koléa Algeria274,748
- 2110 Ambato Ecuador274,672
In New Zealand, 2025
- 462 Auckland1,123,094
- 2106 Glenfield275,322
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 Glenfield are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Glenfield 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 →
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