What’s within a radius of each city
185 cities with four circles each: how many people live inside, which towns fall inside and just outside, which counties, provinces or regions they reach, and how far a 30-minute drive gets you. The 100 largest US cities are in miles, like the UK ones; Spain’s 50 provincial capitals, Ceuta, Melilla and the rest, in km.
United States
The 100 most populous cities, by state. The figure: people within 50 miles.
Arizona
California
- Anaheim 15.6 million within 50 mi
- Bakersfield 947,000 within 50 mi
- Chula Vista 5.07 million within 50 mi
- Fresno 1.62 million within 50 mi
- Irvine 14.8 million within 50 mi
- Long Beach 14.4 million within 50 mi
- Los Angeles 14.8 million within 50 mi
- Oakland 7.42 million within 50 mi
- Riverside 11.9 million within 50 mi
- Sacramento 3.97 million within 50 mi
- San Diego 5.11 million within 50 mi
- San Francisco 7.16 million within 50 mi
- San Jose 7.16 million within 50 mi
- Santa Ana 15.3 million within 50 mi
- Stockton 5.12 million within 50 mi
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Texas
- Arlington 7.82 million within 50 mi
- Austin 2.78 million within 50 mi
- Corpus Christi 535,000 within 50 mi
- Dallas 7.80 million within 50 mi
- El Paso 2.33 million within 50 mi
- Fort Worth 7.41 million within 50 mi
- Frisco 7.59 million within 50 mi
- Garland 7.64 million within 50 mi
- Houston 7.29 million within 50 mi
- Irving 7.85 million within 50 mi
- Laredo 691,000 within 50 mi
- Lubbock 412,000 within 50 mi
- McKinney 6.76 million within 50 mi
- Plano 7.65 million within 50 mi
- San Antonio 2.77 million within 50 mi
Virginia
Washington
Spain
The 50 provincial capitals, Ceuta and Melilla, by autonomous community. The figure: people within 50 km.
Andalusia
Asturias
Balearic Islands
Basque Country
Canary Islands
Cantabria
Castile and León
Castilla–La Mancha
Catalonia
Community of Madrid
Galicia
La Rioja
Melilla
Navarre
Region of Murcia
Rest of the world
33 big cities in 17 countries, only where GeoNames covers the surrounding towns well. The figure: people within 50 km (or miles in the UK).
Argentina
Austria
Czechia
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
How it’s calculated
The people in each circle come from Population in a radius, with the same data: Spain’s municipal register (spread within each municipality with the GHS-POP grid), the population of each Census ZIP code area in the US, and the 2025 GHS-POP grid elsewhere. Each figure comes with its low and high estimate.
Towns are the municipalities of the register (by their main town), Census places (cities, towns and CDPs, by their center) and, outside both countries, GeoNames places of 1,000+ people. Distances are straight-line on the WGS84 ellipsoid. The 30-minute drive area comes from OpenStreetMap’s Valhalla, without traffic.
- Radius map Draw a circle of any radius around a place and see how big it is and what lies inside it.
- Population in a radius Estimate how many people live within any distance of a point anywhere in the world, with Census data in the US.
- Drive time map See how far you can get in a set time by car, by bike or on foot, drawn as an area on the map.