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WoW Classic Realm Population

How many characters raided on each connected realm each week, and how they split between Alliance and Horde.

Faction balance

Census week Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2026

Total character appearances

5,495

Alliance70%27%Horde
Alliance
3,813
Horde
1,499
Unknown
183 (3%)

Census facts

Updated weekly

Census week
Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2026
Source
Warcraft Logs raid records, not Auction House prices
Regions
Americas (US) and Europe (EU) only; Korean and Taiwanese realms are not in the census
Collected
Next update
Nov 11
Realms reported
20

Population by connected realm

20 realms reported for the week of Oct 28, 2026, ranked by total characters.
Realm type
Connected realms ranked by characters, Classic Era EU
Connected realmBalance
Rank 1
2,5281,702697129
6074941130
Rank 3
4633571060
Rank 4
3602529414
193151420
Rank 6
18485990
183139440
Rank 8
12091290
Rank 9
119624314
Rank 10
11774358
Rank 11
10261401
Rank 12
949400
Rank 13
8448315
Rank 14
7345235
Rank 15
6250120
Rank 16
5833241
Rank 17
440440
Rank 18
433094
Rank 19
373700
Rank 20
248142

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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.

Every census realm