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Point Cook, 
Australia
404,501 people lived in Point Cook in 2025. It is the 1399th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Australia.
Like every city on this site, Point Cook 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 Point Cook grew
Count 10 people in Point Cook in 2000 and the same count gives 71.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 459,507 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Point Cook through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Point Cook in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Australia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 29 cities in Australia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Sydney. The ringed dot in colour is Point Cook; 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, Point Cook covered 121 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 30 km² of it. That is 75 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 7.2 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 Australia
Its share of Australia
Of every 100 people in Australia in 2025, 2 lived in Point Cook, which is 404,501 people.
How to read this: shrink Australia to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Point Cook; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1395 Jiashan China405,454
- 1396 Hebron Palestine405,079
- 1397 North Richland Hills United States404,680
- 1398 Sariwon North Korea404,672
- 1399 Point Cook404,501
- 1400 Wad Madanī Sudan403,988
- 1401 Asaba Nigeria403,859
- 1402 Joharabad Pakistan403,179
- 1403 Tumakuru India403,109
In Australia, 2025
- 127 Melbourne3,639,893
- 474 Perth1,079,374
- 476 Brisbane1,071,628
- 592 Adelaide879,249
- 1399 Point Cook404,501
- 1926 Gold Coast298,750
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 Point Cook 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 Point Cook 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 →
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