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Milwaukee, 
United States
701,928 people lived in Milwaukee in 2025. It is the 764th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in the United States.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Milwaukee grew
Milwaukee had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 703,243 people in 2050.
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
Milwaukee through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Milwaukee in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the United States and its 348 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New York City). Milwaukee is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Milwaukee covered 259 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 68 km² of it. That is 97 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 17%, and its people are about 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, 2 lived in Milwaukee, which is 701,928 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 Milwaukee's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 760 Rasoi India703,790
- 761 Yiyang China703,724
- 762 Tai'an China703,020
- 763 Qingyuan China702,881
- 764 Milwaukee701,928
- 765 Culiacán Mexico701,609
- 766 Akure Nigeria700,747
- 767 Deyang China700,386
- 768 Acapulco Mexico699,888
In the United States, 2025
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul]1,107,243
- 595 Saint Petersburg877,183
- 653 Detroit809,894
- 732 Columbus731,335
- 764 Milwaukee701,928
- 785 Fresno685,330
- 817 St. Louis663,392
- 873 West Palm Beach617,035
- 898 El Paso605,731
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee 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