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U.S. cities with population over 1 million.

Name: Over 1 million — U.S. cities by population — Census Vintage V2025
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau
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The U.S. has 12 cities with population over 1 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates (reference date July 1, 2025). New York, NY leads the band at 8,584,629 residents. Filter by city or state, sort by population or growth, and export matching rows as CSV.

Source U.S. Census · PEP
Vintage V2025
Reference 2025-07-01
Geography Incorporated places + 8 consolidated cities + DC
Coverage 51 states + DC · 19,483 cities total
Last build 2026-06-17

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12 rows

Over 1 million — U.S. cities by 2025 population. 12 cities in this band.
Rank	City	State	2025 pop	2020 base	5-yr Δ	5-yr Δ %
#1	New York	NY	8,584,629	8,805,594	-220,965	-2.5%
#2	Los Angeles	CA	3,869,089	3,899,342	-30,253	-0.8%
#3	Chicago	IL	2,731,585	2,748,333	-16,748	-0.6%
#4	Houston	TX	2,397,315	2,299,649	97,666	+4.2%
#5	Phoenix	AZ	1,665,481	1,608,349	57,132	+3.6%
#6	Philadelphia	PA	1,574,281	1,603,800	-29,519	-1.8%
#7	San Antonio	TX	1,548,422	1,433,348	115,074	+8.0%
#8	San Diego	CA	1,406,106	1,384,481	21,625	+1.6%
#9	Dallas	TX	1,329,491	1,304,341	25,150	+1.9%
#10	Fort Worth	TX	1,028,117	918,892	109,225	+11.9%
#11	Jacksonville	FL	1,017,689	949,607	68,082	+7.2%
#12	Austin	TX	1,002,632	958,151	44,481	+4.6%

All 12 cities in this band. Rank column reflects the national rank within all qualifying cities; row order reflects this page's filter.

Source detail for this table

Values in this table inherit the source agency, native geography, transformation, and caveats below.

Source detail

2025 population

Source agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset: Census PEP
Vintage / period: Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography: Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation: Copied from POPESTIMATE2025, joined by Census GEOID, and used for ranks, filters, and city pages.

Known limit: Annual estimate, not a decennial count; each new PEP vintage can revise the prior series.

Methodology Original source

Source detail

2020 Census base population

Source agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset: Census PEP
Vintage / period: Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography: Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation: Copied from the Vintage 2025 April 1, 2020 base and joined by Census GEOID.

Known limit: This is the PEP base for the 2020s estimate series; do not mix it with older PEP vintages as if they were one continuous methodology.

Methodology Original source

Source detail

Population change

Source agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset: Census PEP
Vintage / period: Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography: Census PEP subcounty place records, using values inside the same Vintage 2025 release.
Transformation: Computed as a displayed-year estimate minus the comparison-year estimate from the same vintage, then ranked or filtered as needed.

Known limit: Annual estimates can be revised with each vintage; this is not a decennial count or net-migration table.

Methodology Original source

Methodology · sources and limits

Census Vintage 2025 · within-vintage growth only.

Population figures are pop_current from the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025, reference date July 1, 2025. National rank is based on population across all 19,483 cities in the dataset.

All change figures (5-yr Δ columns) are computed within Vintage 2025 only: April 2020 census base to July 2025 estimate. This site does not publish a single 2010→2025 growth figure because Vintage 2019 and Vintage 2025 use different methodologies and reference populations — mixing them would produce misleading numbers.

The filter is inclusive at the lower bound: a city of exactly 1,000,000 qualifies.

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