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Toluca, 
Mexico
1,505,035 people lived in Toluca in 2025. It is the 335th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Mexico.
Like every city on this site, Toluca 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 Toluca grew
For every 10 people in Toluca in 1980, there were 77.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Toluca through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Toluca in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Toluca is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico 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, Toluca covered 382 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 99 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 7.7 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 Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 100 people in Mexico in 2025, 1 lived in Toluca, which is 1.5 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Toluca. 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
- 331 Daejeon South Korea1,517,299
- 332 Jodhpur India1,515,910
- 333 Sacramento United States1,514,661
- 334 Austin United States1,513,032
- 335 Toluca1,505,035
- 336 Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo1,504,370
- 337 Oakland United States1,503,319
- 338 Batam City Indonesia1,500,354
- 339 Stockholm Sweden1,500,093
In Mexico, 2025
- 108 Guadalajara4,135,440
- 116 Monterrey3,938,015
- 255 Puebla1,947,971
- 320 Tijuana1,557,695
- 335 Toluca1,505,035
- 371 León1,367,521
- 417 Torreón1,227,850
- 425 Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
- 517 San Luis Potosí992,648
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 Toluca are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Toluca 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