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Murrieta, 
United States
257,413 people lived in Murrieta in 2025. It is the 2268th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 76th largest in the United States.
Like every city on this site, Murrieta is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Murrieta grew
For every 10 people in Murrieta in 2005, there were 43 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 300,624 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, 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
Murrieta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Murrieta 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). Murrieta 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, Murrieta covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 111 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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 Murrieta, which is 257,413 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Murrieta. 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
- 2263 Kherson Ukraine257,682
- 2265 Dinghai District China257,524
- 2266 Zahrat Laban Saudi Arabia257,467
- 2267 Cabo San Lucas Mexico257,436
- 2268 Murrieta257,413
- 2270 Otukpo Nigeria257,334
- 2273 Jowhar Somalia257,210
- 2274 Arraiján Panama257,136
- 2275 Vanderbijlpark South Africa257,093
In the United States, 2025
- 2176 Bellevue267,696
- 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
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 Murrieta are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Murrieta 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