WoW 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 21 – 27, 202612,890
- Alliance
- 6,193
- Horde
- 6,400
- Unknown
- 297 (2%)
Census facts
Updated weekly- Census week
- Oct 21 – 27, 2026
- Source
- Warcraft Logs raid records, not Auction House prices
- Collected
- Next update
- Nov 4
- Realms reported
- 5
Population by connected realm
5 realms reported for the week of Oct 21, 2026, ranked by total characters.| Connected realm | Balance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Nazgrim PvE, with Galakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Pagle, Ra-den | 12,517 | 6,015 | 6,206 | 296 | |
2 Arugal(AU) PvE, with Arugal (AU) | 215 | 109 | 106 | 0 | |
3 Bloodsail Buccaneers PvE-RP | 95 | 69 | 25 | 1 | |
4 Remulos(AU) PvE, with Remulos (AU) | 46 | 0 | 46 | 0 | |
5 Mankrik PvE | 17 | 0 | 17 | 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.
Every census realm
Classic Era — Americas (US)
Classic Era — Europe (EU)
Mists of Pandaria Classic — Europe (EU)
TBC Anniversary — Americas (US)
TBC Anniversary — Europe (EU)
Season of Discovery — Americas (US)
Season of Discovery — Europe (EU)