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Santa Clarita — UN urban centre

55,547

Santa Clarita: 55,547 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,089 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2371; territory: United States (USA). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 34.3879, -118.5528. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199557,758Estimate
200058,610Estimate
200561,456Estimate
201061,058Estimate
201558,919Estimate
202055,080Estimate
202555,547Estimate
203056,100Projection
203556,457Projection
204056,704Projection
204556,862Projection
205056,846Projection

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