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Irapuato, 
Mexico
456,628 people lived in Irapuato in 2025. It is the 1219th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd 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 Irapuato'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 Irapuato grew
Count 10 people in Irapuato in 1975 and the same count gives 38.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 540,106 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Irapuato through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Irapuato in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 186 cities in Mexico in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Mexico City. The ringed dot in colour is Irapuato; 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, Irapuato covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 3 lived in Irapuato, which is 456,628 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Irapuato. 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
- 1215 Barishal Bangladesh457,323
- 1216 Jiaozhou China457,288
- 1217 Batman Türkiye456,902
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary Russia456,304
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
- 1222 Vladivostok Russia455,141
- 1223 Hafizabad Pakistan454,903
In Mexico, 2025
- 1019 Durango541,787
- 1023 Matamoros540,236
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez502,534
- 1152 Villahermosa481,525
- 1219 Irapuato456,628
- 1379 Mazatlán409,143
- 1408 Tepic401,753
- 1529 La Paz372,988
- 1534 Celaya372,139
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 Irapuato 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 Irapuato 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