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Irving — UN urban centre

181,347

Irving: 181,347 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,324 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6525; 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: 32.8304, -96.9719. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
2000136,095Estimate
2005144,209Estimate
2010149,533Estimate
2015158,955Estimate
2020177,886Estimate
2025181,347Estimate
2030185,086Projection
2035190,280Projection
2040193,607Projection
2045197,882Projection
2050201,269Projection

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