Buffalo — UN urban centre
Buffalo: 322,892 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,779 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8207; 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: 42.9354, -78.8387. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 427,580 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 401,427 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 387,960 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 373,656 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 372,021 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 370,671 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 356,234 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 341,408 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 333,685 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 326,451 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 322,892 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 319,830 | Projection |
| 2035 | 317,813 | Projection |
| 2040 | 313,692 | Projection |
| 2045 | 311,593 | Projection |
| 2050 | 308,535 | Projection |
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