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, 20261,691
- Alliance
- 1,116
- Horde
- 492
- Unknown
- 83 (5%)
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
- 1
Population by connected realm
1 realm reported for the week of Oct 21, 2026, ranked by total characters.| Connected realm | Balance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Wild Growth PvE | 1,691 | 1,116 | 492 | 83 |
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 — Americas (US)
Mists of Pandaria Classic — Europe (EU)
TBC Anniversary — Americas (US)
TBC Anniversary — Europe (EU)
Season of Discovery — Europe (EU)