Classic Era (US) population trends
All-time weekly faction population across every Classic Era realm.
Faction balance
Census week Nov 4 – 10, 20263,982
- Alliance
- 2,742
- Horde
- 1,017
- Unknown
- 223 (6%)
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.
1 of 26 weeks had far fewer reporting realms than a nearby collected week — a movement there can be collection coverage, not the market.
| Week | Alliance | Horde | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4Thin week | 2,742 | 1,017 | 223 | All series reported — 21 realms reported, against 27 in a nearby collected week |
| Oct 28 | 3,413 | 1,605 | 330 | All series reported |
| Oct 21 | 4,277 | 1,654 | 280 | All series reported |
| Oct 14 | 4,750 | 1,254 | 445 | All series reported |
| Oct 7 | 4,340 | 1,437 | 321 | All series reported |
| Sep 30 | 4,315 | 1,706 | 274 | All series reported |
| Sep 23 | 5,022 | 1,557 | 196 | All series reported |
| Sep 16 | 4,368 | 1,713 | 282 | All series reported |
| Sep 9 | 4,934 | 1,788 | 419 | All series reported |
| Sep 2 | 3,821 | 2,117 | 362 | All series reported |
| Aug 26 | 4,272 | 2,002 | 745 | All series reported |
| Aug 19 | 3,737 | 2,050 | 503 | All series reported |
| Aug 12 | 3,998 | 1,775 | 743 | All series reported |
| Aug 5 | 3,863 | 3,813 | 583 | All series reported |
| Jul 29 | 3,217 | 2,836 | 506 | All series reported |
| Jul 22 | 3,853 | 3,006 | 407 | All series reported |
| Jul 15 | 2,628 | 1,324 | 249 | All series reported |
| Jul 8 | 4,552 | 2,376 | 136 | All series reported |
| Jul 1 | 4,067 | 1,598 | 564 | All series reported |
| Jun 24 | 4,119 | 2,063 | 522 | All series reported |
| Jun 17 | 2,724 | 2,561 | 221 | All series reported |
| Jun 10 | 3,682 | 1,610 | 432 | All series reported |
| Jun 3 | 3,266 | 1,537 | 830 | All series reported |
| May 27 | 2,983 | 1,357 | 806 | All series reported |
| May 20 | 2,902 | 1,659 | 925 | All series reported |
| May 13 | 3,206 | 1,096 | 617 | 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.