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The current metro area population of Philadelphia in 2024 is 5,821,000, a 0.62% increase from 2023. The metro area population of Philadelphia in 2023 was 5,785,000, a 0.5% increase from 2022. The metro area population of Philadelphia in 2022 was 5,756,000, a 0.38% increase from 2021.
Census data for Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area (pop. 6,241,164), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
Census data for Philadelphia, PA (pop. 1,567,258), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
Although the city proper was second to New York City in population at the time of the first U.S. Census in 1790, Philadelphia County was the most populous urban (or metropolitan) area in the nation until 1810, when it was surpassed by New York.
This substantial population is even more significant when you consider the metropolitan area. Philadelphia is the center of the Delaware Valley, which is the 6th largest metro area in the United States with more than 6 million residents.
Census data for Philadelphia, PA Metro Division (pop. 2,142,440), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
The city is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the eighth-largest metropolitan region in the nation with 6.245 million residents in its metropolitan statistical area, and 7.366 million residents in its combined statistical area. [ 12 ]
