Population Near Me
Find out how many people live within a chosen radius of any city or your current location.
About this map
How many people live around you?
People are distributed very unevenly across the planet.
A radius of 100 km around Paris contains tens of millions of people, while the same radius in northern Canada may contain only a few thousand.
This tool estimates how many people live within a chosen distance of any location on Earth using high-resolution population data.
Population within 10 km, 50 km and 100 km
A small radius shows your immediate local area.
Larger radii reveal the size of the surrounding metropolitan region.
For example:
- 10 km corresponds roughly to a city district
- 50 km covers a metropolitan area
- 100 km often includes several neighbouring cities
- 500 km can include entire regions or countries
Why population density matters
Population density affects:
- transportation
- housing
- economic activity
- infrastructure
- environmental impact
Comparing different locations can reveal how concentrated or dispersed human populations are around the world.
How this map works
Each cell covers 0.25° of latitude and longitude (≈ 28 km at the equator). Its colour reflects the population density in inhabitants per km², on a logarithmic scale: the visual jump from 1 to 10 is the same as from 10 to 100, or from 100 to 1 000.
The radius calculation sums the population of every cell whose centre falls within the chosen distance. Each cell's contribution is weighted by its area in km², capped at the circle area for radii smaller than one cell.
Data: WorldPop 2020 global 1 km unconstrained mosaic (ppp_2020_1km_Aggregated), aggregated to a 1 440 × 720 grid at 0.25° resolution. Source 1 km pixels are summed per output cell and divided by the cell area in km². All data is stored locally; no external request is made at runtime.