Sacramento — UN urban centre
Sacramento: 1,514,661 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #333 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4225; 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: 38.6076, -121.4726. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 257,713 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 370,721 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 596,237 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 697,861 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 951,383 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,109,802 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,309,921 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,455,252 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,514,661 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,590,806 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,641,431 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,677,375 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,715,720 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,746,019 | Projection |
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