WoW Realm Population

Selected realms population summary

Total character appearances — week of Sep 9, 2026

Updated weekly · census week Sep 9 – 15, 2026

from Warcraft Logs raid records — not Auction House prices

6,292

Population by connected realm

20 realms reported for the week of Sep 9, 2026, ranked by total characters.

• Firemaw
  3,073
  Alliance 1,811Horde 1,176Unknown 86
• Pyrewood Village
  653
  Alliance 480Horde 173
• Soulseeker
  566
  Alliance 357Horde 175Unknown 34
• Ashbringer
  306
  Alliance 165Horde 136Unknown 5
• Nethergarde Keep
  181
  Alliance 128Horde 53
• Mirage Raceway
  178
  Alliance 114Horde 64
• Bloodfang
  144
  Alliance 75Horde 66Unknown 3
• Everlook
  137
  Alliance 111Horde 26
• Auberdine
  130
  Alliance 85Horde 45
• Nek'Rosh
  129
  Alliance 82Horde 47
• Mograine
  119
  Alliance 78Horde 36Unknown 5
• Golemagg
  114
  Alliance 50Horde 59Unknown 5
• Noggenfogger
  110
  Alliance 51Horde 56Unknown 3
• Earthshaker
  93
  Alliance 46Horde 44Unknown 3
• Razorfen
  85
  Alliance 85Horde 0
• Lakeshire
  78
  Alliance 61Horde 17
• Skullflame
  76
  Alliance 39Horde 37
• Stitches
  47
  Alliance 47Horde 0
• Dragonfang
  41
  Alliance 24Horde 16Unknown 1
• Gandling
  32
  Alliance 7Horde 21Unknown 4

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. 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.

Realm population by edition

Weekly faction counts for every connected realm we track, in the other editions and regions.

• Classic Era — Americas (US)

  • Anathema
  • Arcanite Reaper
  • Ashkandi
  • Atiesh
  • Azuresong
  • Benediction
  • Bigglesworth
  • Blaumeux
  • Defias Pillager
  • Doomhowl
  • Faerlina
  • Fairbanks
  • Kurinnaxx
  • Mankrik
  • Myzrael
  • Netherwind
  • Old Blanchy
  • Pagle
  • Rattlegore
  • Skull Rock
  • Smolderweb
  • Thunderfury
  • Westfall
  • Whitemane
  • Windseeker

• Mists of Pandaria Classic — Americas (US)

  • Pagle

• Mists of Pandaria Classic — Europe (EU)

  • Auberdine
  • Everlook
  • Mirage Raceway

• TBC Anniversary — Americas (US)

  • Dreamscythe
  • Nightslayer

• TBC Anniversary — Europe (EU)

  • Spineshatter
  • Thunderstrike

• Season of Discovery — Americas (US)

  • Wild Growth

• Season of Discovery — Europe (EU)

  • Wild Growth