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Stoke-on-Trent, 
United Kingdom
332,542 people lived in Stoke-on-Trent in 2025. It is the 1728th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in the United Kingdom.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Stoke-on-Trent's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Stoke-on-Trent grew
Stoke-on-Trent had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 341,503 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
Stoke-on-Trent through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Stoke-on-Trent in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United Kingdom · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Stoke-on-Trent is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United Kingdom in 2025, 150 in all, led by London, 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, Stoke-on-Trent covered 112 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 84 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 63%, 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 Kingdom
Its share of the United Kingdom
Of every 1,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2025, 5 lived in Stoke-on-Trent, which is 332,542 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the United Kingdom, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Stoke-on-Trent's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1724 Rudrapur India332,826
- 1725 Rio Branco Brazil332,810
- 1726 Sasaram India332,715
- 1727 Hui'an China332,559
- 1728 Stoke-on-Trent332,542
- 1729 Yokkaichi Japan332,173
- 1730 Chandausi India331,969
- 1731 Cap-Haitien Haiti331,899
- 1732 Liaoyuan China331,469
In the United Kingdom, 2025
- 1455 Cardiff390,692
- 1473 Bournemouth386,557
- 1637 Middlesbrough349,436
- 1647 Southampton347,446
- 1728 Stoke-on-Trent332,542
- 1783 Hull322,100
- 1877 Wakefield306,684
- 2075 Southend-on-Sea280,158
- 2112 Reading274,632
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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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