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, 20265,348
- Alliance
- 3,413
- Horde
- 1,605
- Unknown
- 330 (6%)
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
- 27
Population by connected realm
27 realms reported for the week of Oct 28, 2026, ranked by total characters.| Connected realm | Balance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,492 | 1,387 | 1,020 | 85 | ||
2 | 668 | 593 | 41 | 34 | |
3 | 467 | 178 | 248 | 41 | |
4 | 205 | 186 | 6 | 13 | |
| 186 | 97 | 85 | 4 | ||
6 | 177 | 169 | 3 | 5 | |
7 | 159 | 125 | 9 | 25 | |
| 138 | 125 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 96 | 96 | 0 | 0 | ||
10 | 85 | 44 | 37 | 4 | |
11 | 83 | 46 | 35 | 2 | |
12 | 80 | 34 | 44 | 2 | |
13 | 80 | 58 | 0 | 22 | |
14 | 70 | 55 | 0 | 15 | |
15 | 61 | 49 | 1 | 11 | |
16 | 55 | 42 | 0 | 13 | |
| 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 49 | 27 | 22 | 0 | ||
19 | 33 | 13 | 19 | 1 | |
20 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 0 | |
21 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 1 | |
22 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
23 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | |
24 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Classic Era, Europe (EU)
Mists of Pandaria Classic, Americas (US)
Mists of Pandaria Classic, Europe (EU)
TBC Anniversary, Americas (US)
TBC Anniversary, Europe (EU)
Season of Discovery, Americas (US)
Season of Discovery, Europe (EU)