TBC Classic (EU) population trends

All-time weekly faction population across every TBC Classic realm.

Updated weekly · census week Sep 2 – 8, 2026

from Warcraft Logs raid records and PvP leaderboards — not Auction House prices

Raid population over time

2 weeks had far fewer reporting realms than nearby collected weeks — a movement there can be collection coverage, not the market.

Raid weekly population trend for TBC Classic
Week	Alliance	Horde	Neutral	Coverage
May 13	57,868	45,797	2,936	All series reported
May 20	39,860	53,751	2,401	All series reported
May 25	83,823	84,803	10,110	All series reported
May 27	30,524	33,373	4,346	All series reported
Jun 1	25,812	22,474	3,596	All series reported
Jun 3	34,809	30,557	1,758	All series reported
Jun 10	32,978	35,918	8,139	All series reported
Jun 17	22,966	23,863	7,047	All series reported — 2 realms reported, against 3 in a nearby collected week
Jun 24	25,837	34,513	5,172	All series reported
Jul 1	35,878	37,589	4,219	All series reported
Jul 8	33,957	30,355	2,435	All series reported
Jul 15	30,266	29,070	5,975	All series reported
Jul 22	30,032	24,497	7,096	All series reported
Jul 29	24,309	35,619	2,106	All series reported
Aug 5	29,482	32,128	5,180	All series reported
Aug 12	27,065	37,829	5,322	All series reported — 2 realms reported, against 3 in a nearby collected week
Aug 19	35,779	31,509	7,125	All series reported
Aug 26	59,074	73,107	18,368	All series reported
Sep 2	73,232	61,382	8,454	All series reported

Rated arena is not tracked on this edition, so the combined figure is the raid figure.

How this is measured

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. On editions with rated arenas we add characters from Blizzard's PvP arena leaderboards as well. Each source counts a character once per week and the two are added together, so someone who both raids and plays rated arena is counted in both.

It is a weekly measure of raiding and PvP 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.