TBC Classic (US) 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

1 week has a series with no reading — its 0 is a fill, not a measured value.

Raid weekly population trend for TBC Classic
Week	Alliance	Horde	Neutral	Coverage
May 6	0	1,218	0	No reading for one or more series this week — the plotted 0 is a fill, not a measurement.
May 13	81,980	82,574	3,170	All series reported
May 20	86,184	87,496	5,107	All series reported
May 25	60,287	45,855	239	All series reported
May 27	83,470	81,814	8,758	All series reported
Jun 1	8,032	11,613	23	All series reported
Jun 3	77,690	79,255	2,797	All series reported
Jun 10	84,818	77,103	4,152	All series reported
Jun 17	81,223	74,901	4,201	All series reported
Jun 24	81,010	82,008	6,476	All series reported
Jul 1	68,466	60,514	5,304	All series reported
Jul 8	61,022	59,593	6,075	All series reported
Jul 15	64,606	56,630	5,393	All series reported
Jul 22	55,962	55,195	4,106	All series reported
Jul 29	62,050	54,062	6,506	All series reported
Aug 5	56,423	50,850	5,265	All series reported
Aug 12	62,047	52,854	7,937	All series reported
Aug 19	55,902	60,003	6,335	All series reported
Aug 26	61,767	63,435	10,582	All series reported
Sep 2	45,801	46,143	3,175	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.