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 Nov 4 – 10, 20266,402
- Alliance
- 3,097
- Horde
- 2,949
- Unknown
- 356 (6%)
Census facts
Updated weekly- Census week
- Nov 4 – 10, 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 18
- Realms reported
- 3
Population by connected realm
3 realms reported for the week of Nov 4, 2026, ranked by total characters.| Connected realm | Balance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Spineshatter PvP, | 4,467 | 2,165 | 1,979 | 323 | |
2 Thunderstrike PvE, | 1,891 | 932 | 926 | 33 | |
| 44 | 0 | 44 | 0 |
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.