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Norfolk, 
United States
567,473 people lived in Norfolk in 2025. It is the 965th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd largest in the United States.
Like every city on this site, Norfolk 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 Norfolk grew
Count 10 people in Norfolk in 1975 and the same count gives 49.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 680,764 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: 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
Norfolk through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Norfolk in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Norfolk 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, Norfolk covered 314 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 66 km² of it. That is 116 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 5 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
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 Norfolk, which is 567,473 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the United States; the coloured squares live in Norfolk. 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
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás Brazil570,302
- 962 Krasnoyarsk Russia569,604
- 963 Selong Indonesia568,139
- 964 Suez Egypt567,866
- 965 Norfolk567,473
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
In the United States, 2025
- 785 Fresno685,330
- 817 St. Louis663,392
- 873 West Palm Beach617,035
- 898 El Paso605,731
- 965 Norfolk567,473
- 994 Tampa551,988
- 1015 Salt Lake City542,449
- 1022 Honolulu540,683
- 1098 Bakersfield503,676
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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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