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The Woodlands, 
United States
260,732 people lived in The Woodlands in 2025. It is the 2238th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 73rd 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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How The Woodlands grew
For every 10 people in The Woodlands in 2020, there were 10.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 387,087 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
The Woodlands through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in The Woodlands 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 Woodlands 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, The Woodlands covered 95 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 14%, and its people have grown by 7%.
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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in The Woodlands, which is 260,732 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in The Woodlands; 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
- 2232 Pemba Mozambique261,380
- 2233 Agbara Nigeria261,298
- 2234 Areraj India261,142
- 2235 Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria261,103
- 2238 The Woodlands260,732
- 2243 Salinas [Santa Elena] Ecuador260,161
- 2244 Long Thành Vietnam260,047
- 2245 Khalilabad India259,783
- 2246 Deir Ez Zor Syria259,771
In the United States, 2025
- 2049 Poway283,508
- 2076 Copperfield279,805
- 2116 Gaithersburg274,439
- 2176 Bellevue267,696
- 2238 The Woodlands260,732
- 2247 Hazel Dell259,716
- 2257 New Orleans258,413
- 2268 Murrieta257,413
- 2335 Laredo249,861
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 The Woodlands are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 The Woodlands 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