WoW Realm Population
Weekly faction population by connected realm, with our own auction house activity index.
Showing Retail · Americas (US)
Filtersretail · US · All realm types
Realm population isn't tracked for Retail
Realm population comes from Warcraft Logs raid records, which only cover the Classic editions.
Retail has no equivalent census, so there are no realm numbers to show for it.
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.