Classic Era (EU) population trends
All-time weekly faction population across every Classic Era realm.
Faction balance
Census week Nov 4 – 10, 20263,505
- Alliance
- 2,319
- Horde
- 1,153
- Unknown
- 33 (1%)
Census facts
Updated weekly- Census week
- Nov 4 – 10, 2026
- Source
- Warcraft Logs raid records, not Auction House prices
- Collected
- Next update
- Nov 18
- Weeks recorded
- 26
Raid population by week
Rated arena is not tracked on this edition, so every count here is a raid count.
| Week | Alliance | Horde | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4 | 2,319 | 1,153 | 33 | All series reported |
| Oct 28 | 3,813 | 1,499 | 183 | All series reported |
| Oct 21 | 3,596 | 2,582 | 74 | All series reported |
| Oct 14 | 3,373 | 1,373 | 285 | All series reported |
| Oct 7 | 3,120 | 1,530 | 45 | All series reported |
| Sep 30 | 4,096 | 1,447 | 235 | All series reported |
| Sep 23 | 3,076 | 1,266 | 133 | All series reported |
| Sep 16 | 2,838 | 3,346 | 1,857 | All series reported |
| Sep 9 | 3,896 | 2,247 | 149 | All series reported |
| Sep 2 | 3,636 | 1,296 | 67 | All series reported |
| Aug 26 | 3,647 | 1,530 | 90 | All series reported |
| Aug 19 | 3,520 | 1,483 | 690 | All series reported |
| Aug 12 | 3,551 | 915 | 863 | All series reported |
| Aug 5 | 2,820 | 1,346 | 4,211 | All series reported |
| Jul 29 | 2,747 | 4,930 | 250 | All series reported |
| Jul 22 | 3,024 | 1,060 | 668 | All series reported |
| Jul 15 | 2,387 | 845 | 663 | All series reported |
| Jul 8 | 3,265 | 1,052 | 367 | All series reported |
| Jul 1 | 3,422 | 831 | 420 | All series reported |
| Jun 24 | 3,091 | 1,125 | 27 | All series reported |
| Jun 17 | 2,884 | 1,319 | 224 | All series reported |
| Jun 10 | 3,350 | 987 | 207 | All series reported |
| Jun 3 | 3,019 | 1,010 | 97 | All series reported |
| May 27 | 2,602 | 1,550 | 360 | All series reported |
| May 20 | 2,566 | 1,112 | 205 | All series reported |
| May 13 | 3,235 | 915 | 132 | All series reported |
How this is measured, Sources, the Unknown bucket, and what it measures
These figures count character appearances in raid logs uploaded to Warcraft Logs (opens in a new tab) each weekly raid lockout, split by faction and grouped by connected realm. Each character is counted once per week, so a player with several raiding characters appears once for each of them.
Unknown counts characters we saw raiding whose faction the source did not publish: Warcraft Logs reports a faction only for ranked characters, a raid with both factions present leaves the rest unmarked, and an unrecognised faction value is counted here rather than guessed. They are included in the total.
It is a weekly measure of raiding engagement: a useful proxy for how active a realm is, but not a true census of every player. Realms without uploaded logs in a given week show no data for that week.