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Laredo, 
United States
249,861 people lived in Laredo in 2025. It is the 2335th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 77th largest in the United States.
Like every city on this site, Laredo is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Laredo grew
For every 10 people in Laredo in 2000, there were 38.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 344,341 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Laredo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Laredo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Laredo 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, Laredo covered 78 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 82 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Laredo, which is 249,861 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Laredo. 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
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot Israel249,925
- 2335 Laredo249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay249,822
- 2337 Chakwal Pakistan249,801
- 2338 Pattoki Pakistan249,646
- 2342 Kenema Sierra Leone249,485
In the United States, 2025
- 2238 The Woodlands260,732
- 2247 Hazel Dell259,716
- 2257 New Orleans258,413
- 2268 Murrieta257,413
- 2335 Laredo249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay249,822
- 2344 Edgecliff Village249,260
- 2384 Cinco Ranch244,538
- 2446 Corpus Christi239,855
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 Laredo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Laredo 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